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1925

Lillian Diedericks

… Coloured, were forcefully removed from their home by the apartheid government in 1940 when it became a Black only … to be of much importance in the active…

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1959

Mzwakhe Mbuli

… The album was banned shortly after its release by the apartheid government because of its “influence among … in Berlin.  Mbuli also wrote and narrated a…

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Kisten Moonsamy

… (NIC) to become a formidable force in the struggle against apartheid in the ranks of the South African Communist Party …

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1948

Hemant Kumar Waghmarae

… that united anybody, irrespective of race, who opposed Apartheid, but their proposal only received four votes. This … and generally any organisation or…

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1961-1988

Johannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape

… run, he managed to mobilize and organize people against apartheid. The police threatened his family almost daily even …

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1913-1993

Hannah Margaret Stanton

… 1960 and in England she became a great asset to the anti-apartheid campaign and Canon John Collins's Defence and Aid …

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1874-1959

Daniel Francois Malan

… earlier. Notably those that had espoused institutionalised apartheid, or separate development. Malan was dour and …

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Ramnie Dinat

… active in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Ramnie and her family returned to South … Youth Congress, exiled person,…

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… years in this position, he started a campaign to end the apartheid in South Africa. The next year, he introduced the Comprehensive Anti- Apartheid Act which…

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1935-2018

Ronald Vernie Dellums

… years in this position, he started a campaign to end the apartheid in South Africa. The next year, he introduced the Comprehensive Anti- Apartheid Act which…

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1959

Romeo Zamani Makhanya

… that actually took to the streets to protest against the apartheid government. Images of these events filled magazines … The property was the site of a…

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1932-2005

Arthur Maimane

… to Ghana to fulfil his ambitions away from the horrors of apartheid. He also feared for his life after the death of his … in South Africa in 2000 as a Hate…

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Mme Makwena Matlala

… and opposition to state initiatives did not endear her to apartheid officials. In 1949, Makwena Matlala was deposed by … and certainly the first woman, to be…

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1942

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

… Education Act was passed by the government. It was one of apartheid's most offensively racist laws , bringing Black … under the control of the government and…

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1935-1981

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge

… were made to sabotage his car. He was killed by an apartheid death squad in 1978 in Durban. Nonetheless, he … David Tshikalanga. All were policemen and…

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1923-2016

Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden

… from time to time, however, her involvement in anti-apartheid politics became her main focus. In the late 1950s, … Unterhalter, Alan Paton , and Peter Brown …

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1931-2019

Babette Brown

… Station in Johannesburg on 11 August 1963, much to the apartheid government’s anger and embarrassment. As the police … a novel for teenage children that…

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1926-2024

Zuleikha Mayat

… area that could accommodate her due to the segregationist apartheid laws (the only available school was for White … with her husband, often interacted with…

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1928-2011

Dorothy Adams

… Adams became disassociated from the church, notably as the apartheid government introduced the Group Areas Act through … was disappointed by the failure of…

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1930s-2014

David Patrick Russell

… Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the … in 1992. He is honoured for his role in…

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1891-1970

Arthur William Blaxall

… with the African, Coloured, and Indian struggle against apartheid. Trusted as a friend, he received money in the …

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1947-2006

Eric Molobi

… 5, 1947. Molobi was imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era. While in prison he obtained a bachelor's …

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1920-2015

Sylvester Stein

… later become well known for their accounts of life under apartheid. In the late 1950s, Stein left South Africa, and …

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1962

Ebrahim Rasool

… his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the apartheid government declared it a “Whites – only” …

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1958-2021

Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy

… to a standstill. The University, in cahoots with the apartheid state, retaliated by harassing those students who … that South Africa required radical…

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1942

Joseph Nong Thloloe

… who were politically inclined and abhorred the system of Apartheid, like Ellen Kuzwayo  and Thamsanqa Kambule . …

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1949

Renfrew Leslie Christie

… when he saw something that made him suspect that the Apartheid state was involved with nuclear weapons. This is when his hunt for Apartheid’s nuclear bombs…

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1943-2008

Patrick “Bra Pat” Matanjana

… Umkhonto weSizwe (MK)  and in 1967 he was sentenced by the apartheid regime to 20 years imprisonment on Robben Island. …

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