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1934-2021

Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)

… ten siblings. He attended the Cato Manor Government Aided Indian School and then went to Sastri College (high school), … on his play King of the Dark Chamber…

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1929-1967

Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

… Fort Hare, which was the only university opened to Black, Indian and Coloured South Africans as well as students from … political activists. He joined art…

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1936-2016

Indres Naidoo

… in 1953. Indres was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and he became Secretary in 1953. He was elected an Executive Committee member of…

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1961-1994

Feroza Adam

… organisations and youth structures of the Transvaal Indian Congress . She was elected on to the executive …

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1886-1973

Maria Laubser

… pastoral style, painting mainly portraits of African and Indian men and women. She exhibited regularly. In 1936 …

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1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… Gandhi in 1925 and also organised a big reception for the Indian Congress leader, Maulana Shawkat Ali in the village … Taken from Pahad, E. The Development…

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… who later worked as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission …

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1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young girl, Asa (as …

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Thomas G. Karis

… and fair labor standards from 1906 to 1938, he probed the question of whether the courts were deterring Congress. His …

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1945

Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

… of Parliament with limited powers for Coloured and Indian minorities, but excluded the 24 million black … advocate of the boycott in 1984 of the Coloured and…

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1939-2025

Sunny Girja Singh

… to join the liberation struggle. Singh joined the Natal Indian Youth Congress (NIYC) and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1956, then under the progressive …

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1958

Firoz Cachalia

… Codesa negotiations, Cachalia represented the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) at the talks. Cachalia has held several …

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1940-2020

Paul David

… years earlier, David, at the age of 17, joined the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and became the secretary of the NIC … activist, liberation struggle hero,…

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1903-1956

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

… in Durban between Africans and Indians, triggered when an Indian youth killed an African shop-keeper. Gangs of Africans looted and destroyed Indian shops,…

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Approx 1870s-1935

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

… strived to become as productive and self-sufficient as the Indian ex-plantation workers-turned-market gardeners …

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1862-1944

Mohamed Hajee Joosub

… He also converted his retail business to wholesale. As an Indian trader Joosub had to contend with hostility from Dutch …

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Pauline Podbrey

… unions, Podbrey met  H.A. Naidoo . Naidoo was a prominent Indian trade unionist working with the Natal Sugar Workers’ …

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1974

Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo

… unrest in 1986 she was sent to school in Lenasia , an Indian suburb south of Johannesburg . It was while she was a …

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1936-1988

Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo

… Morgan was an executive member of the provincial Natal Indian Amateur Swimming Association in the late fifties, and … black townships (although at this stage…

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1940

James Edward April

… join MK.  A shop owner, Abbas Gadief, a member of the Cape Indian Congress gave them the train-fare to leave for … house. Saloojee and Cachalia were members…

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1938

Dan Sleigh

… Kenya and south of the Prince-Edward Islands along the Indian Ocean. After completing his service in the Navy, he …

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1926

Tlou Theophilus Cholo

… In 1971, he attempted to enter South Africa through the Indian Ocean. The following year, his unit managed to …

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1922-2009

Pauline Podbrey

… parents were opposed to the marriage because Naidoo was Indian, and consequently cut off relations with her. Pauline …

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1930-2013

Ismail Jacob Mohamed

… emphasis on national liberation failed to address the question of the ownership of the means of production and left … campaign (which the then Government…

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1789-1815

Sara “Saartjie” Baartman

… and as a result, the treatment of Baartman was called into question. Her “employers” were brought to trial but faced no …

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1879-1963

Shadrack Fuba Zibi

Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…

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1955

Diane Case

… born in Woodstock , Cape Town in 1955, the daughter of an Indian father and mixed race mother of slave ancestry. The …

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… strike and boycott campaign and the anti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) campaign . She was also instrumental in …

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1942-1985

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

… leaders of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court. …

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14 January1918-1999

Dimitri Tsafendas

… that the minister may well accept its findings and conclusions and act thereon. On the other hand, we fully …

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