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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… profile since not many women held such positions at the time. This led to her being invited to be the Founding …

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1950

Jacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi

… and organised crime. Despite being head of police at the time, Selebi claimed that he was not aware that his friend …

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1852-1927

Elizabeth Maria Molteno

… against British policy in southern Africa. At this time she was also a contributor to “Songs of the Veld” (1902) …

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1911-1985

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

… the formation of many unions in Pretoria. He became full-time General Secretary of the Non-European Distributive …

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1949-2016

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

… ANC in 2010, and now runs various businesses and is a part-time member of council. …

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1935-2009

Cassim Saloojee

… early 1980, Saloojee’s sons who were in High School at the time and surprisingly politically aware further involved him …

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1908-1992

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

… (Thailema) Pillay remained a committed activist until the time of her death on19 December 1991.   …

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1942-2017

Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

… with the expectations of local authorities at the time. Tshiawelo was set aside for Africans considered to have …

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1899-1976

Dora Taylor

… to the privileges that came with being white at the time. Despite this, Dora underwent a radical change of …

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1920-1973

Robert M. Resha

… and powerful on the public platform.” In 1955, at the time of the banishment order, he was living in Sophiatown, …

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1922-2005

John O’ Malley

… his matric at Jeppe Boys High in Johannesburg. By this time the World War II had been broken out. O'Malley thus …

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1874-1965

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood

… in the form of so-called block loans of 80 titles at a time. Wood also induced the national and provincial …

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1935

Durant Basi Sihlali

… and radical: he resisted avant-garde art trends of the time and insisted on representing realities of urban life for …

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1879-1958

Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha

… was the British President General of South Africa at the time.  On 5 July 1913, he was a delegate to an SANNC meeting …

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1967-1991

Vuyani Mabaxa

… building of the youth movement in Diepkloof that at the time was affiliated to the United Democratic Front (UDF). He …

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Nicholaas Frederic de Waal

… to have disapproved of the meeting, nevertheless at the time said Merriman was being unduly apprehensive, and that it …

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… into the African National Congress (ANC) . During this time, her husband lectured in the bush camps in Angola and …

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1955

Shirley Gunn

… and 21 people were injured. Gunn who was pregnant at the time with their son Haroon heard on radio on 10 January 1989 …

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Ambrose Makiwane

… university under the Department of Bantu Education. At the time the university was racially mixed with blacks, coloureds …

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1924-2021

Kenneth Kaunda

… in politics. In 1949 he returned to Lubwa to become a part-time teacher, but resigned in 1951 and became Organising …

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1916-1987

Margaret Mary Smith

… after their wedding, her husband, J.L.B Smith, who by this time was an Honorary Curator for the East London Museum, was …

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1916-1965

Dr Arthur Elias Letele

… erupted in Kimberley and Letele was again arrested, this time for inciting violence. He was found guilty and was given … Africa Biography . Pretoria: HSRC…

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1934-2006

Vusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make

… writer and poet Maya Angelou from 1960-1963, during his time in Cairo. Make also held the position of lecturer at the … Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis, Nimrod…

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1961

Julius C. Malie

He began his education in Basutoland, he later studied at Lovedale and the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked at various times for the YMCA, the South…

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David Rabkin

… as a sub-editor at the  Cape Argus  newspaper at the time of his, and his wife, Susan’s arrest on 28 July 1978. …

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Mamokgalake Lesiba John Choene

… Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] after his time in goal and pledged to go work in Springs [East Rand, …

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1946

Franco Frescura

… indicate that other options had also been explored at that time including Venezuela and Australia. When asked why he had … parents, like many other European…

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1900

Thomas Mbeki

… became one of his principal lieutenants, serving for a time as Transvaal provincial secretary. According to Kadalie, … • Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977)…

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