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1952

Glenn Moss

… which aimed to educate White students on resistance to Apartheid. As a result of his political activities, the Apartheid Government withdrew Moss’s passport…

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1937-2011

Sizakele Sigxashe

… Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities. He left the country in 1964 and joined … Mongalo, Aziz Pahad and Mtu Jwili…

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1910-2001

Govan Mbeki

… sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial by the apartheid regime in 1964. Upon his release in 1987, he was … immediately part of the people's…

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1909-1994

Oscar Mpetha

… of the United Democratic Front (UDF), an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. Oscar was only released in October …

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1957-2014

Chris van Wyk

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

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1930-2005

Hamilton Naki

… he was never involved in surgery on human subjects. Under Apartheid Hamilton was disadvantaged because he was barred … this reason, his role was gradually…

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1933-2001

Donald James Woods

… As result Woods was prosecuted several times for violating apartheid’s publication laws. Woods in turn successfully sued the apartheid government for…

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1940

Mary Maria Burton

… years in South Africa. It was hard for her to process the apartheid system and its policies. She has recounted in … involved in the Black Sash in 1965. Black…

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1941-1978

Rick Turner

… and theorists before he was killed at the age of 36 by an apartheid assassin. A biography of Rick Turner ↵ Richard … initiated acts of sabotage before it was…

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1945

Barry “Anderson” Richards

… Africa on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. In 1968 he performed in an … who staged a walk-off in protest against the…

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1928

James Randolph Vigne

… focused on carrying out a campaign of sabotage against the apartheid regime’s infrastructure. In 1961, Vigne stood for … campaign . He actively campaigned…

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1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

… this tragedy in European history and his own life under apartheid. A significant turning point for Asmal in the 1950s … Throughout these years, as a founder…

B-0007798

1937-2015

Mohamed Ismail Dinat

… and was actively involved in the struggle against the Apartheid government. In the early 1960s Dinat studied at … was active in the African National Congress…

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1957-2011

Gisele Wulfsohn

… collective that documented social issues and the anti-apartheid struggle. Since the late1980s she has documented … featuring Wulfsohn's powerful portraits of…

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1916-2006

Anton Edward Rupert

… luxury goods group. Though he was critical about apartheid both at home and abroad, he avoided confrontations … and labeled him ‘a capitalist architect of…

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1938

Ngoako David Thebehali

… as  Oliver Tambo  and Zakes Mphahlele. In 1954, when the apartheid government introduced separate education, … employees regarded as co-operating with and…

B-0009134

1928-2017

Edward 'Eddie' John Daniels

… one of the so-called “coloured” areas as classified by the Apartheid government; and it was situated on the slopes of … Even after the judge painted a…

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1929-2024

James Matthews

… became the first collection of poetry to be banned by the Apartheid regime, and most of Matthews’s later publications … the demands and longing of South…

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1908-1996

Jean Sinclair

… especially the Group Areas Act (1950) which enabled the apartheid government to enforce racial segregation in … who did not agree with their views. During…

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Boy Mvemve

… had been one of the many cadres marked for death by the apartheid security forces for his demonstrably effective … area, for a number of campaigns designed…

B-0149403

1912-2002

John Jack Curtis

… Curtis was known as a very fierce opponent to tyranny, Apartheid and his championing of the oppressed. He worked … kwaZulu-Natal) because he would not…

B-0148775

20 January-1967

Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)

… and the early structures of what would become formal apartheid. The rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal were designated … a life despite the increasingly oppressive…

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1956-2020

Santu Mofokeng

… that engaged in exposé and documentary photography of anti-apartheid resistance and social conditions during the 1980s … Johannesburg. South Africa. 1998: …

B-0008597

1953-1989

Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski

… Acheson, told Namibian authorities he was recruited by the Apartheid government's clandestine Civilian Co-Operation … had no political will to resolve what…

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1963

Roger Meintjes

… common sense of purpose to address the injustices of the apartheid state, according to Meintjes provided a “rich … to provide a greater understanding of the…

B-0093854

1951

Dr Daniel Alexander Jordaan

… administrator and a former lecturer, politician and anti-apartheid activist. … Anti-apartheid activist, lawyer, lecturer, soccer administrator, …

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Chris Qwazi

… in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid  in  Port Elizabeth , and the Eastern Cape . He … era and continues to record images of…

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Traci Mackie

… recalled how challenging it was to be a journalist during apartheid as the government would often interfere and even … the regime to intimidate her. She…

B-0150305

1929-2020

Jeanette Carlson

… result of the white nationalist government’s imposition of apartheid on the country in the late 1940s. She saw the importance of questioning the apartheid…

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