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1935-2005

Lothar Neethling

… General Lothar Paul Neethling was born in East Prussia. In … SAPA (1997) POLICE GENERAL SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH MURDER, SAYS MAX DU PREEZ from …

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Ngila Micheal Muendane

… of the South African National Defence force, Youth in general and Emerging famers.  He engages himself with …

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1922-1998

Robert Mokxotho Matji

… as a factory worker, and later became a bookkeeper in a general store in the New Brighton location of Port Elizabeth. …

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Ellen Elmendorp

… Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; the latter years of General Franco’s rule in Spain; Peron’s return to Argentina …

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1913-1996

George Gangen Ponnen

… Mbele and Douglas, all members of the CPSA.   After a general discuss­ion HA and Ponnen joined the CPSA. Later they … to see that the Indian and Coloured…

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1921-1976

Leslie Massina

… executive committee of the ANC and became the first general secretary of the  South African Congress of Trade … Defiance Campaign, Treasurer of the Transvaal…

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1940

Barend Jacobus Du Plessis

… and he was transferred to the office of the Director General as administrative secretary. Following his …

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Dan Tloome

… defeated by  Walter Sisulu  for the post of secretary-general of the ANC in December 1949. He was elected instead …

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1937-2011

Sizakele Sigxashe

… integrated. Sigxashe was appointed as the first Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Sigxashe … Commissioner in the Stuart Commission…

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1909-1994

Oscar Mpetha

… Food and Canning Workers' Union and in 1951 became its general secretary. He joined the  African National Congress … Organiser and later General Secretary of…

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1933

Adams Farid Ahmed

… years,working some of that time as its full-time secretary-general. During the 1950s, he was arrested several times in …

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1959-2016

Junaid Ahmed

… community and in mainstream theatres. Ahmed was the General Secretary of the Congress of South African Writers … General Secretary of the Congress of South…

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1949

Linda Komape

… she founded and became an organiser for the Transport and General Workers Union . Here she worked to improve wages and …

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1857-1919

William Philip Schreiner

… of Kimberley. He was later appointed Attorney General by  Cecil John Rhodes , but was forced to resign … as representative of Kimberley, appointed Attorney…

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Nombuso Mchunu

… the Garment workers union, Nombuso moved to become the general secretary of the Chemical and Industrial Workers’ … General secretary of the Chemical and…

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1943

Moebien Wadee

… his internship. He returned to South Africa and opened a general practice in Kliptown. Later he lived in Lenasia for a …

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1958

Emmanuel Bonginkosi Nzimande

… Party (SACP) in 1988. He has held the position of the General Secretary of the SACP since July 1998. He is also a … of a number of progressive education…

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Dr Gomolemo Mokae

… Hospital (now Chis Hani Baragwanath) and started a general practice in Soweto before moving on to Ga-Rankuwa. He …

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June Rose Nala

… of instigation were dropped.  After her release she became general secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union …

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Hargreaves Nkosana Mbodla

Between 1959 and 1962, eight people were banished from various districts of Mpondoland, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape].  They included some of those who…

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1900-1976

Emil Sachs

… in the GWU. Sachs led several strikes, including two general strikes by the GWU in 1931 and 1932. The latter was … Pirow, had Sachs arrested and banned for…

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1925-2009

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

… by the Apartheid regime. One of these activists was the general secretary of the Food and Canning Workers Union, which lead to Abrahams being elected as the…

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1924-2020

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

… he met the delegation led by Dr. A. B. Xuma , President-General of African National Congress (ANC) . The delegation … had arrived in New York to lobby at the…

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1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… released two days later. Mayekiso was appointed Secretary General of Mawu in May 1986 and, two months later, after his … of South Africa  (NUMSA), Mayekiso…

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1943-2008

Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo

… government. In June of that year, he became secretary general of Inkatha, succeeding Professor SM Bhengu. Dhlomo … 1990 Dhlomo announced his resignation as…

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1942-2002

Alfred Temba Qabula

… Homes Construction at Mount Edgecombe. In 1966 he joined General Plumbers which operated out of Red Hill, Durban. Very … by Nokukhanya in August 1977. In…

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1925-2020

John Kgwana Nkadimeng

… as chairman of its political committee until he became general secretary of SACTU on 17 August 1983. He continued to … on the ANC's political and military…

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1851-1930

William Henry Beaumont

… in public affairs matters and was an ardent supporter of General Botha.  When Botha contested the 1910 elections, he … subsequently became known as the…

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1939

Chief Malebogo

… State Artillery of the Transvaal Republic under Commandant General  Piet Joubert besieged his fortress from the first …

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