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1923-2007

Raymond Hoffenberg

… South Africa. That same day a banning order issued by the Apartheid government came into effect. Debarred from … In exile he continued to campaign actively…

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1953-2019

Jonathan Clegg

… and thus could not receive airplay because of censorship. Apartheid laws forbade public performances with people of … texts into Zulu for the union movement…

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… together with a number of other African teachers whom the apartheid regime considered unemployable. The ANC requested … a literary figure. Having broken out…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… on new associations as the forced relocation scheme of apartheid made Black people refugees in the land of their … So too were approaches by the UN Special…

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1948-2020

Achmat Dangor

… 1978 for his political activities.   Since the end of the apartheid, Dangor has worked for several development agencies and authorities assisting victims of…

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1930-2019

Hassim Mohamed Seedat

… in London. Whilst in London he was active in the anti-apartheid campaigns mounted in the United Kingdom by the Anti-Apartheid Committee. He was an articled…

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Paula Ensor

… in 1973 under the Suppression of Communism Act by the apartheid government. In May 1976, Ensor and her husband, … of London. In exile, Ensor became involved…

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1960-2020

Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela

… Winnie Madikizela-Mandela who in 1977 was banned by the apartheid government to Brandfort in the Orange Free State … in South Africa. One of the tweets she…

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1931-2012

Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson

… in a number of important political trials during the apartheid era, including the  Rivonia trial  in 1963-1964 in … Centre, he challenged the implementation…

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1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… and prolific writer, who was extremely active in the anti-apartheid and communist movements. Four years later, he would … a job to support herself and her…

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1918-2002

Wolfie Kodesh

… newspaper to earn a living. In 1950, two years after the Apartheid government came to power, the CPSA was banned under … defied his ban by continuing to…

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1928-2007

Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)

… in 1951. As a consequence of the injustices brought on by apartheid, Masilela and her husband decided to leave South … flame continued to burn regardless of…

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1928-2016

Simon Gqubule

… Black Consciousness Movement , making it an enemy of the apartheid regime. From its establishment until four years … as a place for fostering Black…

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1918-2011

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

… (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the … by the Second World War and by the…

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William Mini

… Campaign, who served three months for breaking railway apartheid regulations, and lost his job as a packer in a …

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1957-2006

Monty Johannes Motloung

… Johannesburg. They were spotted on their way to Soweto by apartheid agents and police and were cornered at John Orr’s …

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1952-2003

Fikile Magadledla

… contains an element of resistance to a society built on apartheid, but during the late 1970s he explored more …

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1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a …

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1936

Luli Callinicos

… in Africa, and A Place in the City: the Rand on the Eve of Apartheid (1993). In 1992, she was commissioned to write …

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1946-2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

… on the mission of guiding the university away from the apartheid educational model. After the African National …

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1920-1969

Eduardo Mondlane

… in South Africa until forced to withdraw by the new apartheid-oriented government. Interested in the fate of his …

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1935-2015

André Philippus Brink

… literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the …

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Siva Pillay

… on Robben Island says in his book, Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island: Flash Backs of an earlier … Pietermaritzburg.|Isaacs, S. (2010).  …

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1953-2020

Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela

… the African National Congress (ANC) as a tool for fighting apartheid, he learnt about some of the jailed and exiled … of establishing a SASO branch in…

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18 May1940-2008

Alan Keith Brooks

… played an important role in the struggle against the apartheid inside and outside the country. He first joined the … from a United Nations scholarship for…

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1941-2023

Stephanie Kemp

… went into exile where she continued her fight against the Apartheid regime by working for the British Anti-Apartheid Movement for three years. This work…

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1959

Gideon Mendel

… photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid . This experience as a “struggle photographer”, … News stories Solo Exhibitions 2019       …

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1934

Abdullah Ibrahim

… he performed with and later married. At the very peak of apartheid, Dollar Brand accepted a 3-year recording contract … Mannenburg became the anthem of those…

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… the turn of the 1960s, South Africa had institutionalised apartheid and instituted martial law, driving most of these … Africa optimistic about country's…

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1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… as Nokuthula's remains were not found. After the fall of Apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was … for her disappearance, neither the…

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