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1937-1986

Bessie Amelia Head

… family, the Heathcotes, when reclassified according to apartheid legistlation as ‘mixed-race’.  Head described her … newssheet, The Citizen, which depicted…

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1940

Ela Gandhi

… negotiate and stay in the country. I don't think that the apartheid government realised the massive support that was … in prison because they refused to be…

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1931-2015

Reggie Vandeyar

… debate on the launching of an armed struggle against the apartheid state. Vandeyar was among the first to agree to … for a selective cultural boycott; the…

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1960

David Dabede Mabuza

… Luthuli House, which accused Mabuza of being an apartheid spy. Mabuza claimed R10 million in damages from …

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1939

Maggie Bopalamo

… She was approached by security policeman to spy on anti-apartheid comrades. She spoke to Bishop Kevin Dowling, and …

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1944-2009

Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini

… Amendment Act. On 21 September 1988 a planned anti-apartheid conference, aiming to bring together a wide range …

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1995

Enver Hassim

… Programme. As a consequence, Hassim was sought by the apartheid security police and went into hiding. He deputized …

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1944

Subbiah Moodley

… Free State - OFS (now Free State Province). During the Apartheid era, Indians were not allowed to live in the OFS …

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1982

Jabulile Nyawose

… a township south of Durban, designated under the apartheid Group Areas Act for Indians only, to discuss what …

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1944-2004

Moses Ndlovu

… experience with the racially oppressive system of the apartheid government came at the tender age of 14 when he …

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1955

Lloyd Spencer

… worked for Ravan Press, (Staffrider Magazine) an anti-Apartheid publishing house and was lucky enough to be …

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1932-2018

Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha

… of his Foreign Minister and endorsed the reaffirmation of apartheid policy outlined by other senior Nationalist Members …

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1908-1982

Ellen Phyllis Hellman

… on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Her opposition to the apartheid regime led her into active politics and she was a …

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1936-2007

Archie Mafeje

… However, his appointment was reversed because of an apartheid law. His removal sparked a protest by UCT student …

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1925-2012

Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias

… During his student years, Tobias was also active in anti-apartheid politics, and was the chair of the National Union …

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1923-2003

Maggie Resha

… “… her excellent contribution to the struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa and fighting gender …

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1952

Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

… the resignation of Jacob Zuma. Previously an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader and businessman, …

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1918-1996

Rowley Israel Arenstein

… active in organizing opposition to the new laws enforcing apartheid and in establishing labour unions in …

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1923-2003

Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha

… “her excellent contribution to the struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa and fighting gender …

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1932-2024

Peter Sexford Magubane

… has published 17 books, two of which were banned by the Apartheid government,” Black As I Am” (with poetry by Zindzi …

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1912-2003

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

… the government of DF Malan prepared to implement its new apartheid policy by introducing a series of harsh racial laws … on 26 June 1950 to protests against…

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1924-2002

Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper

… neighbours but who had to bear the brunt of unjust Apartheid legislation. Her career was temporarily put on hold …

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Bisho Jarsa

… an African in a fundamental way," he told the BBC. Under apartheid, his family was classified as Coloured, or …

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1946-2010

Paul Alberts

… the Child and internationally distributed. The Borders of Apartheid , The Gallery Press, Cape Town, 1983 (compilor of …

B-0007779

1957

Sakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma

… at Boston. While in America he was active in the anti-apartheid movement and in the anti-investment campaigns. In …

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1936-1999

Ahmed Gora Ebrahim

… loyalty to the PAC - into a meaningful force in the post-Apartheid era. He wanted a broad, open-ended Africanism to …

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1939-2012

Sedick Isaacs

… was Prisoner number 883/64.  In his book, Surviving in the Apartheid Prison, Isaacs describes in detail the inhuman and … Isaacs S. (2010). Surviving in the…

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1945-2025

David Hemson

… student papers and also wrote articles criticising the apartheid government. Hemson joined the National Union of …

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1905

Ray Harmel (nee Adler)

… they were both also actively engaged in the British Anti-Apartheid movement. Ray Harmel died in exile, in 1998, at the …

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Marion Monica Sparg

…  only strengthened Sparg’s resolve to fight against the apartheid government. In August 1982 Sparg returned to Zambia …

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