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1919

Peter Kaya Selepe

… of the Springbok Legion and of the  African National Congress . At the time of his arrest for treason, he was …

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1923

W Mati

… Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 bus boycott in … Member of the  African National Congress,…

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1861-1924

Rustomjee Jiwanji Ghorkhodu

… He was one of the founders of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) on August 22, 1894, and was elected …

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1935-1981

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge

… Mxenge joined the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANCYL). After obtaining his BA degree, he … attorney for the defence of eighteen Pan…

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1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

… anti-pass campaign of the  South African Native National Congress (SANNC and African National Congress (ANC)  after 1923) and became an organizer in the ……

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Mohammed Tikly

… Subsequently, he joined the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, an affiliate of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) where his political activism began. After…

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Victor V. T. Mbobo

… him as a possible candidate for the  African National Congress  (ANC) presidency. He was elected to the ANC …

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Isaiah MacDonald Maseko

… A chairman of the Orlando  African National Congress  (ANC) during the 1952  Defiance Campaign  and …

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Dilizantaba Mji

… League. In 1952 he was elected to the  African National Congress  (ANC) national executive committee but soon … head the Transvaal Youth League, African…

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1910

Pitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane

… was born in 1910. He was a leader of the  African National Congress  in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he …

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1929

Peter Papela Nthite

… working as a truck driver. Joining the  African National Congress  during the 1952  Defiance Campaign , he became …

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Trineke Weijdema

… freedom movements. The KZA provided the African National Congress (ANC) with quite a large amount of money during its …

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Unknown

Bransby Ndobe

… ,  Bransby Ndobe  did much to organise  African National Congress  (ANC) branches between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth …

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1915

Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia

… government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was instrumental in …

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1908-1975

Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer

… South Africa, Bram was called to the Johannesburg Bar on 10 January 1935. Initially briefs were slow to arrive. When … 1943 he helped  A. B. Xuma  revise the…

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1933

Mildred Lesiea

… . Local meetings were organised by the African National Congress (ANC). The Eureka African Primary School was the … the Treasurer of the local branch of the…

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1954

Billy Lesedi Masetlha

… Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is a founder member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and participated … arrested for furthering the aims of the…

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Alex Tikana

… It was held that Tikana’s banishment would erode the ‘Congress’ [ African National Congress (ANC)] influence in Cala. An order signed on 15 …

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1956

Azhar Cachalia

… National Assembly in 1994, and the  South African Indian Congress (SAIC) . During his studies at Wits Azhar Cachalia … was elected to the executive of the …

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1935

Don Mattera

… of his life. He then joined the  African National Congress Youth League  and became a political activist. In … to form the Union of Black Journalists, as…

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1912

Goolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad

… in 1925 and also organised a big reception for the Indian Congress leader, Maulana Shawkat Ali in the village Kholvad. … the State of Emergency in 1960, he,…

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Cijimpi Mnyandu

… Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the … his fellow workers that he was part…

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Molefe Pheto

… as a member of the BMCA and of the African National Congress (ANC). During his captivity Pheto wrote many poems … Party (SACP), and Rodwell Mzotane for the…

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1949

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

… at the Sorbonne in Paris. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was instructed in propaganda techniques by … included conspiring with members of…

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1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… she lived most of her life. Gordimer has been awarded 10 honorary doctorates in literature from various … organisation, being a founder member and patron of…

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1943-2008

Patrick “Bra Pat” Matanjana

… was a member of the armed wing of the  African National Congress ,  Umkhonto weSizwe (MK)  and in 1967 he was …

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale

… Legislative Council and presided over the Indian National Congress Session in Benaras. He championed the cause of South …

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Mabel Balfour

… canning workers. After many leaders from the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) were arrested in the 1956 Treason Trials, she became …

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1955-1985

Malesella Benjamin Moloise

… a black security policeman. However, the African National Congress claimed responsibility for the murder and repudiated …

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1904

Simon Tyeku

… Chairman of the Sophiatown  African National Congress  in the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the  … Chairman of the Sophiatown African National…

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