SAHO global search

1926-1933

Nellie Jibiliza

… in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a … in 1960. She became an active branch member of…

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1861-1951

Sefako Mapogo Makgatho

… the mid-1920s was an organisation that had surpassed the ANC in winning the alliance of the African people”. Despite … of the SANNC (renamed the African…

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1944

Virgile Joseph Bonhomme

… one of nine provincial leaders tasked with establishing ANC branches in Natal. He spent two months in prison and was released under restriction. When the ANC…

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1928-2007

Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)

… liberation struggle, aiding the African National Congress (ANC) from her home (which would later be known as’ … Park, sheltered, conscientised, and developed…

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1922

Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana

… became secretary. Elected an official of the Western Cape ANC in 1951, he also acted as secretary of the Cape Western … elected to the Cape provincial…

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1909-1983

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo

… the Executive Council of the TIC. Collaboration with the ANC and CPSA At the end of 1946 and the beginning of 1947, … political organisations. At the African…

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1938-2002

Stephen Vukile Tshwete

… Town, he was introduced to African National Congress (ANC) literature. The principal of the school, H Mjamba, … people to work in the underground structures…

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1936

Willie Esterhuyse

… to open negotiations with the African National Congress (ANC). These initial talks, at first testing the waters, paved … and enabled both the National Party…

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1925-2020

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni

… and later in 1954 he joined the African National Congress (ANC). During the  Congress of the People  he was a branch … for black groups. In 1951 he formally…

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1948-2021

King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

… Front  (UDF) supporters. The  African National Congress  (ANC) President, Oliver Tambo, criticised the KwaZulu … prevented him from commenting on political…

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1929

Peter Hlaole Molotsi

… involved in politics as well and became a member of the ANC Youth League in Orlando in the early 1950s. He got to … were very active during those days. This…

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1952-1981

Krishna Rabilal

… Vis Pillay (Ivan) into the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa. Following the arrest of Shadrack … of the Refugee Committee in Botswana. As…

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1945-2004

Sheila Weinberg

… of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the   South African Communist Party (SACP) . Her … from an early age. She painted slogans and…

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1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… with M. B. Yengwa in the Defiance Campaign of the ANC (Natal) and again (although acting illegally since he was … in exile, serving as an editor of Sechaba…

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1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… . It was then that she got to know many of the younger ANC members who were to become the prominent leaders of the … were being picked up and detained or…

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1918-1998

Mark Shope

… general secretary. Joining the African National Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign, he served as a branch … in the early 1960s and has…

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Josias Madzunya

… and interracial trends in the African National Congress (ANC). He thereafter became chairman of an Alexandra branch of the ANC and played a leading role in…

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1924-1978

Robert Sobukwe

… because they felt that the African National Congress (ANC) had been compromised by its continuing participation in … adopting an Africanist position within…

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1939-2025

Sunny Girja Singh

… (MK) — the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) — as a member of a cell in the Durban Central Area. He … Deputy Commissioner. The African…

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1953-2014

Sally Gross

… politics on campus and off, becoming a member of the ANC.  Gross was raised in an orthodox Jewish home, though … with the then banned African National…

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1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

… (Johannesburg). He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) in 1975. A student leader in … Chief of Logistics in Luanda, Angola…

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1931-1981

Dr Nomava Eslinah Shangase

… herself. In 1962, the African National Congress (ANC) answered an emergency call for aid from the Government … health and hospital services. In answering the…

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1974-2016

Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)

… the Chief Representative of the African National Congress (ANC) in Zimbabwe . He died on 1 May 1985 when his car … Lusaka.  Fezekile claimed to have been…

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1899-1995

Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana

… His more long-term concern, however, was with building the ANC into an effective organisation, and in 1937 he joined  J. … Marks ,  S. S. Tema , and others…

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Myron Peter

… in the Durban regional African National Congress (ANC), and was the first Secretary of the ANC’s Overport Branch working under the Chairperson, Ismail ……

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1929-2008

Billy Nair

… we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation or MK, the armed wing of the ANC) regional command and was one of the leaders present at … On the Island he served in a number…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… in 1951 when he joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1952 he was jailed with Govan Mbeki and Raymond … political activism, and rose rapidly in the…

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1956-1979

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu

… ongoing riots. He joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  in September 1976, and left the country to be trained … a group of ten, bringing arms,…

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