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1976

Pixie Benjamin

… Pixie Benjamin was a strong anti-apartheid political activist and prisoner banned from South Africa during Apartheid. She endured harsh punishment under…

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1949-2014

Jabu Sithole

… communities into a formidable non-racial force against apartheid segregation and underdevelopment. Civic activists … (UDF) and the Mass Democratic Movement …

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1964-2025

Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels

… throughout Mitchells Plain , grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her exact birthdate and … stronghold of the United Democratic…

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1953-1993

Sam Tambani

… on to enroll at Sinthumele Secondary School in Venda, an apartheid era ‘self-governing’ bantustan in modern day … Unfortunately, on 14 April 1993 Sam Tambani…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… job in 1977, when he was forced into exile for his anti-apartheid activities and left the country after police raided … a key role in the mobilization of USA…

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1931-2015

Lauretta Ngcobo

… personal and public struggles of African women who opposed apartheid amidst the harshness of rural life. “Rural women … In her writings, Ngcobo is generous…

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1912-2001

Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba

… his work at best as colloquial, and antipathy from the apartheid government which, given the pre-ordained prescriptions of the Apartheid ideology, saw his…

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1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… and exploitative conditions which people experienced under apartheid labour laws. He joined the African National … ANC to mobilise the international…

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1947-1985

Twasile Champion Galela

… and Qaqawuli Godolozi were lured into a trap set up by the apartheid security police posing as members of a foreign … dumped in the nearby Fish River. After…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… submitted essays for the show "Blank - Architecture and Apartheid", which was commissioned by the Netherlands … , NSA Gallery, Durban, 1998 Blank -…

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1919-1999

Phyllis Altman

… to send money into South Africa to pay for lawyers in anti-apartheid cases. Altman also ran an operation to send … knowledge when President F.W. de Klerk …

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1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… to her father and from that she started hating the Apartheid Laws, especially the Group Areas Act and the Pass … National Congress (ANC) in calling for…

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Tim Bruwer

… early 1970s, came to an alternative view about racism and  Apartheid  and took an active role in opposing the South … to be an odd one out in the Afrikaner…

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Mabel Balfour

… Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist. Balfour was first involved with the … anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist,…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

… stood for the principle of multiracialism as opposed to apartheid. He died in 1974. …

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

… becoming aware of the contradictions between apartheid and his personal beliefs. …

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1956

Stephen Marais

… who told him  no uncertain terms that Verwoerd and his Apartheid was a ‘reuse klomp kak’. His mother was Anglican and she and her church taught him that…

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1943-2009

Winston Monwabisi Ngozi

… was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid government continued its project of racial divide, … as he was faced with many of the…

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1941

Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela

… school, St Peters. She learnt about the coming of apartheid through reading books and newspapers and listening … formed part of the exiled team, which…

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1926-1933

Nellie Jibiliza

… Buildings on 9 August, 1956 in a campaign against the apartheid government policy which extended the carrying of … Coloured.  When Jiliza’s husband died in…

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1928-2012

Joe Mkhwanazi

… infamous Bethal Trial, Mkhwanazi’s leading role in Anti-Apartheid activities while in Swaziland was exposed. The Apartheid government then put pressure on…

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1940

Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize

… to Meadowlands in Soweto, Transvaal, at the hands of the apartheid government’s 1954 Natives Resettlement Act sowed a … and its first treasurer general…

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1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… [v] . He campaigned for a robust principled stand on anti-apartheid education policies in the Anti-CAD [vi] . As a … speaking about the political and social…

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1918-2013

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

… typically acted as a second in command to a chief. In the apartheid era, this had evolved into something new. The … of a new policy of total racial…

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1982

Victor M Mgadi

… National Congress(ANC) during the uprising agaisnt the Apartheid regime. He was also an Umkhonto we Sizwe (also …

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1957-1998

Simon Nkoli

… Tseko Nkoli Simon Tseko Nkoli was a gay activist and anti-apartheid leader who fought for freedom and social justice in South Africa during the anti…

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1941-2013

Wendy Heather Woods

… wing – Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) – in its fight against apartheid and the government intensified its attempts to … to become truly aware of the realities of life…

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1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… singer and in great demand in music and theatre. Yet as apartheid laws were implemented, black performers found it … and for her contribution to the struggle…

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1957

Kate O’Regan

… period she acted for a wide range of trade unions, anti-apartheid organisations and several communities facing the threat of evictions under apartheid land…

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1940

John Maxwell Coetzee

… in South Africa in 1948, beginning a racist and oppressive apartheid regime. Coetzee’s formative experience was … The painful and offensive reality of South…

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