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1918-2002

Wolfie Kodesh

… newspaper to earn a living. In 1950, two years after the Apartheid government came to power, the CPSA was banned under … defied his ban by continuing to…

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1928-2007

Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)

… in 1951. As a consequence of the injustices brought on by apartheid, Masilela and her husband decided to leave South … flame continued to burn regardless of…

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1928-2016

Simon Gqubule

… Black Consciousness Movement , making it an enemy of the apartheid regime. From its establishment until four years … as a place for fostering Black…

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William Mini

… Campaign, who served three months for breaking railway apartheid regulations, and lost his job as a packer in a …

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1957-2006

Monty Johannes Motloung

… Johannesburg. They were spotted on their way to Soweto by apartheid agents and police and were cornered at John Orr’s …

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1952-2003

Fikile Magadledla

… contains an element of resistance to a society built on apartheid, but during the late 1970s he explored more …

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1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a …

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1936

Luli Callinicos

… in Africa, and A Place in the City: the Rand on the Eve of Apartheid (1993). In 1992, she was commissioned to write …

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1946-2012

Professor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel

… on the mission of guiding the university away from the apartheid educational model. After the African National …

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1935-2015

André Philippus Brink

… literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of English at the …

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1956

Willie Bester

… is also evident in Bester’s sustained preoccupation with apartheid’s legacy, and the empathy and dignity with which he …

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Siva Pillay

… on Robben Island says in his book, Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island: Flash Backs of an earlier … Pietermaritzburg.|Isaacs, S. (2010).  …

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1953-2020

Walter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela

… the African National Congress (ANC) as a tool for fighting apartheid, he learnt about some of the jailed and exiled … of establishing a SASO branch in…

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1941-2023

Stephanie Kemp

… went into exile where she continued her fight against the Apartheid regime by working for the British Anti-Apartheid Movement for three years. This work…

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1959

Gideon Mendel

… photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid . This experience as a “struggle photographer”, … News stories Solo Exhibitions 2019       …

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1934

Abdullah Ibrahim

… he performed with and later married. At the very peak of apartheid, Dollar Brand accepted a 3-year recording contract … Mannenburg became the anthem of those…

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1941-2010

Hotep Idris Galeta

… the turn of the 1960s, South Africa had institutionalised apartheid and instituted martial law, driving most of these … Africa optimistic about country's…

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1960-1983

Nokuthula Orela Simelane

… as Nokuthula's remains were not found. After the fall of Apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was … for her disappearance, neither the…

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1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… for the return of exiles and a negotiated an end to the apartheid system. During 1993 Modise was instrumental in … Modise's professional contribution to…

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Myron Peter

… and Wentworth. During the 1970s, he was engaged in anti-apartheid activities in the  Black Consciousness Movement … Afrapix which primarily focussed on…

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1916-1988

John Taolo Gaetsewe

… of governments, employers and workers present there that apartheid could not be justified, reformed or diluted but had … recognition for his contribution in…

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1946-2011

John James Issel

… became actively involved on the East Rand in the anti-apartheid Labour Party, contesting elections for the Coloured … contribution. He played a leading role…

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1915-1974

Michael Alan Harmel

… important role in the shaping and work of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, as well as the establishment of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement. Through his…

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1980

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane

… that life in South Africa was better under former apartheid President PW Botha. Despite deleting the post and … groups who had chosen to boycott the country…

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1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… [v] . He campaigned for a robust principled stand on anti-apartheid education policies in the Anti-CAD [vi] . As a … speaking about the political and social…

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1945

Omar Badsha

… artist, photographer, and an influential voice in the anti-apartheid artists' and writers' circles. Badsha was among the … her to produce a book of…

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1925-1982

Ruth First

… settled in North London and First threw herself into anti-apartheid politics, joining the Anti-Apartheid Movement , holding talks, seminars and public … The…

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1925-1985

Alex la Guma

… and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of Apartheid . la Guma was born in 1925 in District Six , South … from the difficulty pointed out by…

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1870-1950

General Jan Christiaan Smuts

… and Smuts with them, in effect considered the policy of apartheid or total segregation altogether impractical. In … a policy steering a middle course between…

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