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1919-2000

Jim Bailey

… were handled with caution to avoid clampdowns by the apartheid government, but frequent exposés drew attention to … disturbance in Nigeria. Well known for…

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1932-1968

Benson Tsele

… a time when any political activism was interpreted by the apartheid government as treasonous and spelled either a lifelong sentence in apartheid jails or a…

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1942

Terry Bell

… affairs through University College.  In 1966 the apartheid government imposed banning orders on Bell and a … While studying in London he edited the monthly…

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1931-1989

Richard Rive

… Six, which was a Coloured, or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of a scholarship, Rive attended high …

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1920-2004

Nimrod Sekeramane Nathale

… left in Ireland. He attended meetings of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement but was disappointed to find no … the United States and Brazil, and during the…

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1927-2019

Adelaine Florence Hain

… Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, … Hain's banishment to Britain failed to quell her anti-apartheid voice. Instead in 1969…

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1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… people of South Africa for his opposition to the draconian apartheid policies of the South African regime' (Letter to … November 1983). Trevor Huddleston,…

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1930-1994

Elijah Barayi

… as he felt it was in the forefront of administering apartheid.  He held a variety of jobs until 1960 when he left … that disinvestment would work towards the…

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1948

Gavin Jantjes

… of the 1970s, the artist became an active critic of the apartheid regime. One of his most radical expressions against … news, drawings, text, and prints…

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1948

Alec Erwin

… an Officer until 1993. During the negotiations between the apartheid government and the anti-apartheid movement, Erwin was appointed as a member of the …

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1949

Michael Nkolo Maapola

… drawings and sculptures was destroyed. Only Maapola’s apartheid-era pieces that survive today made it through in … many black artists’ work. A few years…

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… he was in jail on  Robben Island . She challenged the Apartheid government, demanding her husband be released by … by Robert Sobukwe while he was in jail and…

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1959

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi

… was refused re-admission and was briefly prevented by the apartheid state from completing his schooling. He moved to … Mufamadi headed a planning committee…

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1920-2005

Isaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch

… club. Horvitch dedicated his early years to fighting apartheid in South Africa and was twice put on trial for his anti apartheid political activities. He was…

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1937-2007

Eve Hall

… other women for promoting the ANC (which was banned by the apartheid government at the time) by distributing leaflets … the first White women activists to be…

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1976

Pixie Benjamin

… Pixie Benjamin was a strong anti-apartheid political activist and prisoner banned from South Africa during Apartheid. She endured harsh punishment under…

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1949-2014

Jabu Sithole

… communities into a formidable non-racial force against apartheid segregation and underdevelopment. Civic activists … (UDF) and the Mass Democratic Movement …

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1964-2025

Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels

… throughout Mitchells Plain , grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her exact birthdate and … stronghold of the United Democratic…

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1915

Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia

… Born in 1915 and restricted to Johannesburg by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African …

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1926-1933

Nellie Jibiliza

… Buildings on 9 August, 1956 in a campaign against the apartheid government policy which extended the carrying of … Coloured.  When Jiliza’s husband died in…

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1928-2012

Joe Mkhwanazi

… infamous Bethal Trial, Mkhwanazi’s leading role in Anti-Apartheid activities while in Swaziland was exposed. The Apartheid government then put pressure on…

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Tim Bruwer

… early 1970s, came to an alternative view about racism and  Apartheid  and took an active role in opposing the South … to be an odd one out in the Afrikaner…

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1953-1993

Sam Tambani

… on to enroll at Sinthumele Secondary School in Venda, an apartheid era ‘self-governing’ bantustan in modern day … Unfortunately, on 14 April 1993 Sam Tambani…

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1947-2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

… job in 1977, when he was forced into exile for his anti-apartheid activities and left the country after police raided … a key role in the mobilization of USA…

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1931-2015

Lauretta Ngcobo

… personal and public struggles of African women who opposed apartheid amidst the harshness of rural life. “Rural women … In her writings, Ngcobo is generous…

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1912-2001

Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba

… his work at best as colloquial, and antipathy from the apartheid government which, given the pre-ordained prescriptions of the Apartheid ideology, saw his…

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1931-2019

Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

… and exploitative conditions which people experienced under apartheid labour laws. He joined the African National … ANC to mobilise the international…

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1947-1985

Twasile Champion Galela

… and Qaqawuli Godolozi were lured into a trap set up by the apartheid security police posing as members of a foreign … dumped in the nearby Fish River. After…

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1955

Rafique (Rafs) Mayet

… submitted essays for the show "Blank - Architecture and Apartheid", which was commissioned by the Netherlands … , NSA Gallery, Durban, 1998 Blank -…

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