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1948-2026

Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota

… were not allowed bail. In November 1988, Lekota was one of four fellow trialists found guilty. Although UDF … interests. He received a written reprimand and…

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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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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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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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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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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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1878-1942

Paul De Groot

… Groot also ventured to produce original Afrikaans plays, one of them Die misdade van die vaders by A. du Biel. He was …

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Chauke Family

… are represented in the Campbell Smith Collection by one figure each. They are small, simple, stylised, frontal …

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1926-2007

Edgar Dumile Ngoyi

… who were guarding Ngoyi’s house guilty of burning to death one of Ngoyi’s visitors a young Azanian Peoples Organisation …

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1892-1973

John Ronald Tolkien

… an academic at Oxford where upon being accepted he became one of the founder members of a group known as the "The …

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… the Indian community into two more or less equal halves, one sector opposed to government policies and the other doing …

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1945-2013

Zolile Hamilton Keke

… trial which began in December 1977. Convicted on only one charge-recruiting for PAC on Robben Island, he was given …

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1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

… for her role in the defiance campaign and was sentenced to one month of hard labour. In 1956, Fatima participated in the …

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1923

Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa

… preparatory work for the  Congress of the People  and was one of its speakers at Kliptown outside Johannesburg in June …

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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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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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