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1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… for the return of exiles and a negotiated an end to the apartheid system. During 1993 Modise was instrumental in … Modise's professional contribution to…

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Myron Peter

… and Wentworth. During the 1970s, he was engaged in anti-apartheid activities in the  Black Consciousness Movement … Afrapix which primarily focussed on…

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1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… of governments, employers and workers present there that apartheid could not be justified, reformed or diluted but had … recognition for his contribution in…

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1946-2011

John James Issel

… became actively involved on the East Rand in the anti-apartheid Labour Party, contesting elections for the Coloured … contribution. He played a leading role…

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1915-1974

Michael Alan Harmel

… important role in the shaping and work of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, as well as the establishment of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement. Through his…

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1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… that life in South Africa was better under former apartheid President PW Botha. Despite deleting the post and … groups who had chosen to boycott the country…

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1945

Omar Badsha

… artist, photographer, and an influential voice in the anti-apartheid artists' and writers' circles. Badsha was among the … her to produce a book of…

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1925-1982

Ruth First

… settled in North London and First threw herself into anti-apartheid politics, joining the Anti-Apartheid Movement , holding talks, seminars and public … The…

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1925-1985

Alex la Guma

… and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of Apartheid . la Guma was born in 1925 in District Six , South … from the difficulty pointed out by…

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1870-1950

General Jan Christiaan Smuts

… and Smuts with them, in effect considered the policy of apartheid or total segregation altogether impractical. In … a policy steering a middle course between…

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1932-2007

Sydney Sipho Sepamla

… with fermenting dough. This collection was banned during apartheid. He has used the Black girl as a metaphor of Africa …

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1920

Marutle Flag Boshielo

… struggle, Boshielo became a prime target of the oppressive Apartheid machinery. He was prohibited from attending …

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1938

Noria Mabasa

… and mastering of her craft. She conveys the experience of apartheid from a Venda women’s perspective focusing in the …

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1936-2010

Lewis Nkosi

… Astrid Starck. Novels: Mating Birds (1986) [banned by the apartheid government] Underground People (2002) Mandela’s Ego …

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1953

Jeannette Ndhlovu

… the United States of America (USA) to strengthen the anti-apartheid student movement and also to pursue her academic …

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1920-1993

Hudson William Edison Ntsanwisi

… Minister of the ‘independent homeland’ of Gazankulu. The apartheid government wanted Black and White people to live …

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1953

Derek Andre Hanekom

… land affairs after 1994. He followed his brother into anti-apartheid activities, joined the Young Christian Students, …

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1920-2000

Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo

… stance put her in conflict with South Africans opposing Apartheid, among whom she was regarded as a government …

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1933-2017

Miriam Tlali

… years later in 1975. In 1979, the novel was banned by the Apartheid government; however, it was published …

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1932-1999

Florence Mkhize

… . At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the …

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1958

Firoz Cachalia

… made an immense contribution in challenging and opposing Apartheid, to the transition to democracy and subsequently to … various leadership positions in…

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1941

Winston Ntshona

… by The Island in 1973. Sizwe Banzi is Dead addresses the apartheid regime’s restrictive pass laws while The Island is … in finding out what became of his…

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1933-2019

Cloete Breytenbach

… in 1951. The newspaper was known as a mouthpiece of the apartheid regime in those days and one of Breytenbach’s first … to photograph Nelson Mandela on…

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1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… participating in radical movements such as the anti-apartheid movement and the Soweto Uprising organised by the … protests and campaigns directed at…

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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

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

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1963

Zubeida Vallie

… an awareness of the role that women played in the anti-apartheid struggle as well as turning points in the political …

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1946

Ashlatha Rambally

… traumatic and which made her truly realise how brutal the apartheid regime was. She was taken back to Uitenhage the … the African National Congress (ANC)…

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1938

Aubrey Levin

… team in Ward 22 of One Military Hospital in Pretoria. Apartheid South Africa is known for its use of psychiatry to … Zyl, de Gruchy, Lapinsky, Lewin & Reid,…

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1931-2000

Ismail Mahomed

… to be hindered by what he would later describe as being an Apartheid imposed ‘badge of inferiority’ [iii] Mahomed forged … and education to assist people who…

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