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1963

Robert John McBride

… associated with the Black Panther movement, became one of the most influential books McBride ever read. Through … Wentworth. He dropped out of Mechanical…

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Joel Joffe

… and his wife Venetta on a Robben Island tour in 1995, one that left Joffe with a renewed sense “of how fortunate … its foreword, Mandela wrote that the book…

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1940

Johnson Phillip Mlambo

… and Douglas Simelane. Mlambo was listed as accused number one in their trial. He was charged with sabotage and plotting … stopped at Colesberg Prison where…

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Arthur Butelezi

… that: ‘”¦ no African – not even a culturally Europeanised one – was endowed with the creative ability to produce art …

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1921-1976

Leslie Massina

… the Dube location advisory board in Johannesburg. He was one of the accused for the full length of the  Treason Trial …

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… of Drum , and partly an investigation into the death of one of Drum ’s reporters, Henry Nxumalo. Stein currently …

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1936-2009

Izak de Villiers

… author.  He wrote 54 books, including five of poetry and one on depression.  De Villiers also composed a number of …

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1962-1987

Mandla Nkosi

… portrait of an American art critic and his wife during one of the Thupelo Workshops. In 1986 he won a merit award at …

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1969

Jonathan Neil Rhodes

… National Director of Epilepsy South Africa, “Jonty is one of the most prominent figures world wide who openly … Former South African Test and One Day…

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie …

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Laurence Neill Nathan

… and not pacifist reasons, his personal philosophy is one of nonviolence. …

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1928-1993

Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli

… as a security specialist in the Soviet Union ,and at one time was a member of the South African Communist Party …

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1897-1963

Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool

… Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female …

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1909-1994

Oscar Mpetha

… unsuccessful appeal of his sentence, he was selected to be one of three co-presidents of the United Democratic Front …

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1929-2005

Isaac Bokala

… 1952 Defiance Campaign, and on 5 December 1956, Bokala was one of many that were arrested at dawn for treason.  He was …

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1975

Nicholas Hlobo

… recently. Since 2000, he has shown pieces in at least one and as many as ten exhibitions every year, at venues in …

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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

… voices opposed to apartheid . In 1979, he published one of the most-quoted anti-apartheid poems, “In Detention”, …

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1814-1882

King Sekhukhune

… into small "tribal" units that owed allegiance not to one central' Marota Authority but to "Native Commissioners". … Dinkoanyane detained a wagonload of wood…

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1929-2009

Ronald “Ron” Press

… Union, a post he held for over 20 years.  He was in one of the White worker-commando's during the 1922 Rand … the Marist Brothers.  At school he won most…

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1945

Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt

… Cape in 1811. In 1814, Missionary Hinrich Schmelen married one of his catechists, a woman of  Khoi-khoi  origin he met … Orange River. They lived in Komaggas…

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1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

… who "unthinkingly accepted the system and for twenty-one years never questioned it".[5] At the end of 1970, Jenkin … guilty to all charges. They were both…

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1928-1986

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo

… headmen to protest against rehabilitation. According to one historian, “in 1963 the Engcobo and Umtata districts were … habits ("his path is strewn with…

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1929-2008

Billy Nair

… Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten) … Alliance activists for treason and a…

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1951

Patricia De Lille

… Nazareth House HIV/Aids Children, where she sponsors one child St Joseph's Home for chronically sick children … vote of no confidence in her as Cape Town ’s…

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1930-2018

David Goldblatt

… David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, … the turbulent 1970s, Goldblatt had built a reputation as one of the country’s…

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1910-1977

Percy John "Jack" Hodgson

… deported to London together with Rica. In 1964 Hodgson was one of the co-conspirators listed in the indictment of the … had been through the hands of Jack…

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1927-1974

James Kantor

… and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg’s best-known and successful lawyers who … ranks. When Nelson Mandela became a…

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1924-2020

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

… pamphlets from South Africa that his cousin gave to him. One of the pamphlets was written by Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo about … Reddy points out that the Council on…

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13 children (11 boys and twin girls). He was active in … leader whose name will forever be…

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1818-1953

Emily Isabel Fern

… she was then taught pastel drawing by George Smithard. As one of the first students at the Johannesburg School of Art, …

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