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1927

Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood

… to her father and from that she started hating the Apartheid Laws, especially the Group Areas Act and the Pass … National Congress (ANC) in calling for…

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1919-1999

Phyllis Altman

… to send money into South Africa to pay for lawyers in anti-apartheid cases. Altman also ran an operation to send … knowledge when President F.W. de Klerk …

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1940

Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize

… to Meadowlands in Soweto, Transvaal, at the hands of the apartheid government’s 1954 Natives Resettlement Act sowed a … and its first treasurer general…

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Mabel Balfour

… Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist. Balfour was first involved with the … anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist,…

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1897-1974

Victor Poto

… stood for the principle of multiracialism as opposed to apartheid. He died in 1974. …

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

… becoming aware of the contradictions between apartheid and his personal beliefs. …

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1957-1998

Simon Nkoli

… Tseko Nkoli Simon Tseko Nkoli was a gay activist and anti-apartheid leader who fought for freedom and social justice in South Africa during the anti…

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1941-2013

Wendy Heather Woods

… wing – Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) – in its fight against apartheid and the government intensified its attempts to … to become truly aware of the realities of life…

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1956

Stephen Marais

… who told him  no uncertain terms that Verwoerd and his Apartheid was a ‘reuse klomp kak’. His mother was Anglican and she and her church taught him that…

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1943-2009

Winston Monwabisi Ngozi

… was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid government continued its project of racial divide, … as he was faced with many of the…

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1941

Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela

… school, St Peters. She learnt about the coming of apartheid through reading books and newspapers and listening … formed part of the exiled team, which…

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1982

Victor M Mgadi

… National Congress(ANC) during the uprising agaisnt the Apartheid regime. He was also an Umkhonto we Sizwe (also …

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1940

John Maxwell Coetzee

… in South Africa in 1948, beginning a racist and oppressive apartheid regime. Coetzee’s formative experience was … The painful and offensive reality of South…

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1953-2019

Bongani Mnguni

… dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system.  Mnguni was born in Soweto on the 18th of … Africans, telling the stories of black…

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1968-2019

Carol Moses

… at school. She joined the executive committee of an anti-apartheid community newspaper called Saamstaan (stand … months classroom protest that COSAS called…

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1936-2013

Sathima Bea Benjamin

… singer and in great demand in music and theatre. Yet as apartheid laws were implemented, black performers found it … and for her contribution to the struggle…

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1911-1980

Lillian Masediba Ngoyi

… gained wide recognition overseas as a radical opponent of apartheid. Together with Dora Tamana , she was arrested while … without a passport. She addressed…

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Elliot Mngadi

… farmers in Natal who were affected by policies of the apartheid government. In March 1954 Mngadi joined the LPSA at … Affairs Department (NAD) as a messenger…

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1957-1980

Leonard Tebogo Tume

… to him as “Communist” due to his dedication to fighting apartheid. Tume also spoke up openly against corruption … inside. He was shot dead on 13 June 1980 by…

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1943-1967

Denise Darvall

… , and her kidneys went to 10 year old Jonathan van Wyk. In apartheid South Africa that gave rise to some controversy, as …

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1957-1990

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… Human Rights Movements in the USA and about the evil of apartheid. Mashinini was the chairperson of the debating team … vigorous mass action, and…

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1947

Dr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy

… Act . He became politicized facing the injustices of the apartheid government. The restriction of movement, the … , the prime minister of South Africa, the…

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1918-2002

Arnold Selby

… bargaining rights with their bosses under a myriad of apartheid laws controlling labour. This made fighting for … organised to take refugees away far from…

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1926-2004

Anthony Sampson

… and establishing links with the ANC in exile, as the apartheid era began to draw to a close. Sampson has narrated … banking) (1981) Black Gold (about the…

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1921-1993

Andries Treurnicht

… Kerk (NGK, or Dutch Reformed Church) renounced apartheid, Treurnicht was one of the organisers of protest … policy shift. The organisers maintained that in…

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1928-2004

Dolly Rathebe

… Drum photographer, JÁ¼rgen Schadeberg for contravention of Apartheid laws while on a photo-shoot, only served to swell … which flowered briefly before it was…

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1944

Graeme Pollock

… coloured player, Basil D'Oliveira in the team was against apartheid policies. Prime Minister J.B.Vorster refused … Barry Richards organized a protest against…

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1924-2011

Henry Mutile Fazzie

… leaders to have waged a massive offensive against apartheid through a campaign of a total consumer boycott of … later established that they were killed by…

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