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1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… on the students’ council for extra-mural studies and was elected chairman of the youth branch of the National Party … factor in Coetsee’s upbringing. In 1968…

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1908-1993

Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo

… Campaign  of Defiance against Unjust Laws in1952. She was elected to the executive of the Federation of South African … Indian Congress (TIC) was revived in…

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1950

Martin Plaut

… with the Anti-Apartheid Movement as part of his role as Secretary of the Labour Party’s Africa Committee and was the Secretary of the Africa Committee of the…

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1911-2004

Freda Levson

… Mompati . Freda Levson, was appointed its administrative secretary, and for four years the fund provided welfare and … exile. In 1961 she handed over the…

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1938-2009

Nosipho Dastile

… Front (UDF) in Uitenhage. As her activism grew, she was elected as the Uitenhage Women’s Organisation’s first … from 1994 until 1999, she was among the first…

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1892-1977

Moses Kottler

… to hold exhibitions all over the country. New members were elected by existing members by means of secret-ballot. The …

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1902-1972

Rosa Hope

… was subsequently shown at the RA. She was then elected an ARE. In 1935 she visited South Africa, and her …

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1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… been a member of the ANC Youth League . In 1959, he was elected as chairperson of the Selbourne ANC Branch. In 1960 …

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1922-1985

John Nyathi Pokela

… his release in 1980, Pokela went into exile where he was elected to replace Vusumuzi Make who voluntarily stepped down …

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1920-2002

Lionel Rusty Bernstein

… the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and both got elected as Distric Committee in 1941. In 1942 Bernstein enrol … Writer, Political Activist, Architect…

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1953-2019

Bongani Mnguni

… coffins draped in the colours of the then banned ANC and SACP during mass funerals in the townships; of people with no …

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1891-1970

Arthur William Blaxall

… of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and secretary of the South African Christian Council. Over the …

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1937

Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa

… manager with a rubber company in Natal, he became national secretary for South African Young Men's Christian …

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1930

Zachius Botlhoko Molete

… of Africanists around  P. K. Leballo  and was later chosen secretary for publicity and information when the  PAC  was … PAC Secretary for Publicity and…

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1909-1994

Oscar Mpetha

… and Canning Workers' Union and in 1951 became its general secretary. He joined the  African National Congress  ANC in … Organiser and later General Secretary…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist (SACP) after his release from Robben – Island and Johannesburg … Congress (ANC); the South African…

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1945

Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

… of Black Reformed Christians in Southern Africa) and elected Boesak as chairman. The alliance's statement … Africa's white Dutch Reformed Church, and…

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1870-1945

Nadirshah Ardeshir Cama

… In June, soon after his release, the Indian community elected him as a member of a delegation to India to make … activities after the Satyagraha ended in…

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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… and in mainstream theatres. Ahmed was the General Secretary of the Congress of South African Writers (COSAW) … General Secretary of the Congress of South…

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Nombuso Mchunu

… Garment workers union, Nombuso moved to become the general secretary of the Chemical and Industrial Workers’ Union, … General secretary of the Chemical and…

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1874-1939

Charlotte Maxeke

… that she wrote in Xhosa , also reinforces this. SAHO has elected to go with the sources that locate Ramokgopa in the … the Joint Council of Europeans and…

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1905-1988

Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu

… convent in Melmoth. At the same time (early 1960s), he was elected president of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and … in the organization for seven years…

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1924-2020

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

… in charge of action against apartheid, first as principal secretary of the Special Committee Against Apartheid and then … and their supporters around the…

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J. E. Malepe

… National Congress Youth League during the 1940s, he was elected to the  African National Congress  (ANC) national …

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1909-1985

Moses Josiah Madiba

… read in Northern Sotho schools. Madiba was the first secretary of the Maune branch of the Transvaal. African Teachers' Association (TATA) in 1930. He was…

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1953-2005

Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu

… ANC.  On 26 April 2000, Annelize van Wyk, Acting General Secretary of the UDM issued a statement that Prince James … to get a string of senior government…

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1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… of its political committee until he became general secretary of SACTU on 17 August 1983. He continued to serve … ANC's political and military council.  As…

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Bertram Buxton Xiniwe

… hotel operator in King William's Town. Xiniwe was elected to the Natives' Representative Council in 1937 and … Hotel operator in King William's Town , …

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Hammington Silulami Majija

A graduate of Healdtown, he taught in Rhodesia and the Transkei and later worked as business manager of Contact in Cape Town. A prominent figure in the Liberal…

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