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George Montsioa

… and by the community of the Pietersburg, both white and black. In 1912 he was appointed recording secretary of the …

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1943-2005

Ronnie Levitan

… unit at UCT and produced a book with photographs called "Black Housing in the Western Cape".  In 1984 a fellow …

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Cecil Sols

… to expose the atrocities of apartheid and to empower young black South Africans through media training. In 1983 he …

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1852-1917

Isaac Williams Wauchope

… brown complexion, which is to say that he was neither black nor white. He cultivated a luxuriant moustache on his … devoid of Xhosa political authority, thus…

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1956

Trevor Andrew Manuel

… to the negative aspects of the apartheid regime when his Black neighbours were forced to move from Kensington to … of the Western Cape and developed a view…

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1934-2015

Bob Hepple

… Although it was illegal for whites to spend the night in "black" areas, all the students, including Hepple, were … Principal for organising protests over the…

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2018

Vondela Landingwe

… a lifesaver at Mnandi Beach and the swimming pools in the Black townships in Cape Town.  He later became involved in …

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1919-1990

Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu

… exchange program and served as the national chairperson of Black Community Programmes from 1974 until it was banned in …

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1922

Greenwood Dumisa Ngotyana

… worked as a garage attendant, and later helped organise a black railway and harbour workers' union of which he became … Secretary of the Black Railway and…

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1933-1987

Eric Ngcobo

… in South Africa and Lesotho and in 1962 he was the first black artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Durban Art …

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1921-2005

Mahomed “Chota” Motala

… a medical practice in Pietermaritzburg. He was the second Black doctor to do so. Most of his patients came from the surrounding Black townships. The…

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1930

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

… a son to Joseph Jele and Alvinah Khanyile Jele.Like many black South Africans, Jele was exposed to the harsh … unemployment and many other social injustices…

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1936-2011

Lawrence Schlemmer

… economics and anthropology. His efforts to help unionise Black workers won him the support of Chief Mangosuthu … for him: they wanted access to the office of…

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1961

David Hartman

… down in Grahamstown where she was an active member of the Black Sash (a white woman’s organisation). Hartman attended … trip deepened his understanding of…

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1909-1961

David Pratt

… out a .22 calibre pistol and shot Verwoerd twice in the face at point-blank range. He was soon accosted and arrested …

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1958

Mkhuseli Khusta Jack

… African Students Movement (SASM), which was linked to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM).  He came into close … in a number of campaigns including those…

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1947-2007

Neville Wilson Curtis

… Progressive Party. His mother, Joyce, was a member of the Black Sash . Neville Curtis attended Jeppe High School in … of the South African Students…

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1915

Reverend Beyers Naudé

… morality of apartheid after witnessing the destruction of Black family life under the South African migrant labour … and God will be with us.” Naude was…

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1965

Mduduzi Richard Shabalala

… in the township. In 1982 Lamontville was one of first Black townships in Natal to protest against high rent and bus …

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Traci Mackie

… time, as the funeral of Steve Biko , the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and someone whom she would …

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1966-1987

Norman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen

… settlement in Paarl.  Pietersen’s remains were wrapped in black bags and exhumed by forensic anthropologist and …

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1910-1977

Max Gordon

… of whether white leadersship was necessary to promote black unions. In January 1942 Gordon went to port Elizabeth …

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1956

Christopher Nceba Faku

… first democratic local elections he was elected as first Black Mayor of the City of Port Elizabeth (now Nelson Mandela …

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1931

Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

… Representative Council he pressed for a break between black students and the white-led National Union of South …

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1906-1947

Molly Wolton

… of the correctness of Comintern directives regarding the "Black Republic" policy, she became a key member of the …

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1939-2022

Francis Wilson

… of the Sharpeville police shootings, the banning of major Black political activity and the consequent Rivonia trial , … Africa , an influential investigation…

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1852-1927

Elizabeth Maria Molteno

… and British communities were going to unite in excluding Black Africans from the region’s future. In the early 1900s … Gandhi disagreed fundamentally on many…

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1937-1965

Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)

… man can never really understand what goes on inside a Black man'. When the programme ended, Nakasa went to New York … He was an influential writer and had an…

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1942-2017

Joe “Sdumo” Mafela

… Hunt,  In 1974 Mafela co-starred in South Africa’s first Black feature film, “Udeliwe” with Cynthia Shange. In the … character of 'Sdumo'.  This sitcom…

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