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1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… the student population in South Africa to resist apartheid education. As a consequence of this, many students … her to pursue journalism. Since she refused…

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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… organisation that could carry their grievances against the Apartheid state. Thus, Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement … to developments that emerged in the…

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1922-1978

Shulamith Muller

… in the early 1940s and was “listed” as a Communist by the apartheid regime in 1951, appearing on The List at No. 208. …

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1936

George Sewpersadh

… the Natal Indian Congress in December 1956. I didn't like apartheid and I felt it was wrong. I had to do something about opposing apartheid. I was influenced…

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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… African Communist Party (SACP) . Her father was an anti-apartheid activist, photographer and trade unionist. … of Human Rights. She wrote a bulletin…

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1959

Jane Alexander

… Boys were a response to the dehumanizing effects of Apartheid. The effects of power and domination over the … much of her work, from the state-sponsored…

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… Levson also published Forbidden Pastures: Education under Apartheid (1967) and South Africa: An Historical … with Mandela and was a supporter of both the…

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1933-1986

Florence Barbara Ribeiro

… who felt deeply for her people who suffered under the apartheid regime. She was intensely committed to the struggle … extensive evidence about the atrocities…

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1954-1982

Topsy Madaka

… Mthimkhulu, they yielded not results. After the fall of apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) investigated human rights violations under…

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1963

Robert John McBride

… camp that was reserved for Coloured people only by the apartheid social planners. The industrial area of Jacobs and … contribution of Coloured people in the…

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Joel Joffe

… British aid agency from 1995 to 2001. Leading British anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain said: Joffe was an iconic … passionate, and he continued to fly…

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1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… Mpumlwana became consumed with the fight against apartheid and gender inequality, which would result in her … in the mid-1970s. The detention of BCP staff by…

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1951

Frank Chikane

… in 1981 due to his political involvement. After the end of apartheid, he was re-instated, as a pastor. Chikane was … an insight into his childhood life,…

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1932

Harold Athol Fugard

… this was able to witness the destruction on humans by the apartheid system. Athol Fugard started writing after a brief … success The Blood Knot . This play…

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1937-1999

Marius Schoon

… where they continued to work in the underground anti-apartheid movement. In 1978 their first child, Katryn was … to South Africa in 1990 with the unbanning…

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1955-2008

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku

… for the band Spirits Rejoi ce. Feeling restricted by the apartheid system in South Africa, Mseleku left the country in … his right hand. Mseleku believed…

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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… were handled with caution to avoid clampdowns by the apartheid government, but frequent exposés drew attention to … disturbance in Nigeria. Well known for…

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1939

Manfred Zylla

… 1980’s gave him a name as an artist highly critical of apartheid. Figure 1: Picture in "Interaction" 1982 Source: … members of the community to express their…

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1927

Lungile Kepe

… during the  Defiance Campaign  for defying railway apartheid regulations. He was arrested twice for addressing …

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1931-1989

Richard Rive

… Six, which was a Coloured, or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of a scholarship, Rive attended high …

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1920-2004

Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale

… left in Ireland. He attended meetings of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement but was disappointed to find no … the United States and Brazil, and during the…

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1921-2016

Elizabeth Komikie Gumede

… of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. … of the PAC and APLA was the driving…

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1897-1962

Richard Granville Baloyi

… was forced out of the market by a combination of legislation to entrench the position of South African …

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1900-1972

Vernon Celliers Berrange

… when he was put on a Committee dealing with Industrial Legislation and Trade Union Work. He stopped taking part in …

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1942

Terry Bell

… affairs through University College.  In 1966 the apartheid government imposed banning orders on Bell and a … While studying in London he edited the monthly…

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1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… people of South Africa for his opposition to the draconian apartheid policies of the South African regime' (Letter to … November 1983). Trevor Huddleston,…

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1930-1994

Elijah Barayi

… as he felt it was in the forefront of administering apartheid.  He held a variety of jobs until 1960 when he left … that disinvestment would work towards the…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

… of the 1970s, the artist became an active critic of the apartheid regime. One of his most radical expressions against … news, drawings, text, and prints…

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1948

Alec Erwin

… an Officer until 1993. During the negotiations between the apartheid government and the anti-apartheid movement, Erwin was appointed as a member of the …

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1949

Michael Nkolo Maapola

… drawings and sculptures was destroyed. Only Maapola’s apartheid-era pieces that survive today made it through in … many black artists’ work. A few years…

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