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1929-1981

Joe Nzingo Gqabi

… Johannesburg in 1951. Gqabi joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  in 1952 and later the underground Communist … the Transvaal and helped finance the…

B-0008120

1955

Bantu Holomisa

… to 1994 elections. He was chosen by the African National Congress (ANC) Election Committee to campaign nationally … In 1994, he received the most votes in…

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1873-1917

Nokutela (nee Mdima) Dube

… President General of the South African Native National Congress  (SANNC- later renamed the African National Congress  ANC). As an equal partner to John…

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1943-2020

Devikarani Priscilla Jana

… hated system by joining an underground African National Congress (ANC) cell. [x] Jana went on to become the personal … She joined an underground cell of the…

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1929-2011

Arthur Goldreich

… the underground leadership of the banned African National Congress (ANC) met secretly.   Goldreich and his family … We discussed ideological and practical…

B-0065024

1922-2013

Vesta Smith

… years old. She became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and worked closely with Albertina and Walter … Sisulu .  As an ANC volunteer, Smith…

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1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… a more confrontational course for the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the then conservative leadership of … was prominent in both the NIC and the South…

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1873-1936

Sidney Percival Bunting

… Bunting travelled to Moscow, Russia, in 1922 and attended Congress of the Communist International. On his return he … were to support a “Native Republic” at…

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1950

Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper

… scholarship. Having been asked to assist the  Natal Indian Congress  (NIC) in 1971, he urged other Indian activists to … Indians as blacks,and to steer the…

B-0007957

1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… him to join politics. Ndlovu joined the African National Congress at the age of 20 in 1952 during the Defiance … Union (SARHWU) which was linked to the South…

B-0070371

1915-1989

Leo Linda Sihlali

Leo Linda Sihlali was born on 9 September 1915 in Butterworth. He went to primary school in Tarkastad where his mother worked as a teacher. On completion he…

B-0148457

1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… 1940 at 28 years old, Sisulu joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1941 Sisulu met Albertina Thethiwe, a … a committee to coordinate joint campaigns…

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1897-1961

Winifred Seqwana

… May 1962. She became chairwoman of the African National Congress Womens League (ANCWL) in Langa in 1954, a founding … of South Africa in Langa, member of the…

B-0150276

1924-2009

Dennis Brutus

… and was an organiser with the Teachers’ League and the Congress Movement. An ardent cricket and table tennis player … (NEUM) and also drew closer to the…

B-0007892

1928

Michael Kitso Dingake

… in Johannesburg. Dingake joined the  African National Congress  (ANC) in 1952 during the  Defiance Campaign  and … the campaigns of the period – Against…

B-0064882

1959

Cheryl Carolus

… Organisation (UWO), which became the United Women’s Congress , in the Western Cape and also served as the general … of Foreign Affairs and Development…

B-0007922

1946

Franco Frescura

… since largely vanished. Franco joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1983, and in 1985, it was suggested to him …

B-0148466

1930-2015

Maggie Smith

… the anti-apartheid movement and the African National Congress (ANC) in exile, were extensive. Maggie Smith passed …

B-0100311

1926-2004

Ethel de Keyser

… and help with underground work for the  African National Congress . It was then that she got to know many of the …

B-0007984

1947-2008

Mike Terry

… Chief Albert Luthuli , President of the  African National Congress (ANC)  and other leaders for a boycott of all South …

B-0068549

1947

Ben Skosana

… and Development Programme, an  African National Congress  government initiative to alleviate poverty in South …

B-0068484

1934-2012

Ellen Lambert

… Eastern Cape Province . She joined the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of 19 in 1953. She subsequently … ANC mourns Mama Ellen Lambert , from the…

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1941-1985

Judson Diza Kuzwayo

… the Loram Secondary School.He joined the African National Congress (ANC) as a teenager in 1957,he organized community …

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1947

Ben M. Skosana

… and Development Programme, an  African National Congress  government initiative to alleviate poverty in South …

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C. S. Ramohanoe

… a provincial President of the Transvaal  African National Congress  (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the …

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Dr Aubrey Maitshwe Mokoape

… 15 years old, he was a spokesperson of the Pan Africanist Congress youth, the party he joined as a schoolboy before the …

B-0080847

1949-2009

Henry Eric Isaacs

… to East Africa,he joined  the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and participated in its 1978 conference in …

B-0080351

1955

Gana Makabeni

… unionists to take an active part in the  African National Congress  (ANC). Using as a nucleus the African Clothing …

B-0008391

1889

Bertha Mkhize

… and 1936. She was also active in the  African National Congress Women's League  and participated in the 1952  …

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