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1977-2006

Lebo Mathosa

… in the Best African Act category of the UK’s Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards. One of her most memorable …

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1786-1870

King Moshoeshoe I

… Emmanuel Mbathoana (1904-1966), became the first Black bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Southern Africa. …

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1958-2008

Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo

… , Eastern Cape where she was also active in the Black Students Movement in the 1980s. Kondlo joined the South …

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1950

Thenjiwe Mtintso

… in the South African Student Organisation (SASO) and Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). Her activism in student … Biko, N., Maaba, B. & Vizikhungo, M. (2004…

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1941-2010

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche

… from the Aquila, a special AWB unit dressed in khaki or black, with masks, he could mesmerise audiences with his … for conspiring to overthrow the Government…

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1919-2000

Mary Dorothy Benson

… this point, Benson had never considered the plight of Black people in her country of birth but Paton’s novel opened … Benson acted as his secretary and he…

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1952

Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

… 6 of the Terrorism Act. On his release he joined the Black People’ Convention (BPC) , holding posts on various … Group Limited and SASRIA. He is the past…

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1941

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

… also under house arrest. In 1967, Pillay became the first Black woman to open her own law practice in Natal. She … In the mid 1970s, Pillay defended detained…

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1934-2004

Dullah Mohamed Omar

… entered into an ‘illegal’ partnership with Cadoc Kobus, a black lawyer who did not have permission to work in the city. … thrust into political limelight…

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1940

Sindiso Mfenyana

… trying to build bridges between the Coloured and Black communities. On 23 May 1951 Sindiso’s mother passed … pupils the plan for the ANC Defiance Campaign ,…

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1802-1887

Frederick Timpson I’Ons

… also commissioned by military officers to do portraits of Black chiefs like Maqoma, Sandile and Khama. His depictions …

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1848-1916

James Mata Dwane

… America to establish a link between the Ethiopians and the Black African Methodist Episcopal Church. The AME accepted …

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1912-1974

Johanna Catharina Cornelius

… of Sachs and for spending all her time organising black people. The strong structure of the union enabled them …

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1924-2009

Ricardo Rangel

… now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his father was a Greek businessman from …

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1970-2004

Phaswane Mpe

… novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow depicts the struggles of Black people to find an identity in post-Apartheid South …

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1955-1985

Qaqawuli Godolozi

… company as a clerk. He then joined the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO). PEBCO was an affiliate of …

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1947

Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke

… of the Witwatersrand. He is a founder member of the Black Lawyers' Association and of the National Association of …

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1915-1979

Vera Ponnen

… Democrats , and was therefore involved in many strikes of black workers fighting for better wages and conditions and …

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1929-2011

Margaret Nash

… of various anti-Apartheid organisations, among which the Black Sash (member of the National Executive committee) and … Committee of the  Liberal Party of…

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David Bruce

… Afrika" (God Bless Africa), the national anthem of the Black resistance, moments after the sentence was handed down. …

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1908-1966

Arthur Nuthall Fula

… Fula was a pioneer in his own right, becoming the first Black African author to write in Afrikaans – a language that … Novelist, poet, first Black African…

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1920-2002

Frances Rix Ames

… Steve Biko , an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) , died in detention on 12 …

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1916-2006

Pieter Willem Botha

… a social and humanitarian support group to work among the Black population, which had become a major target of the … these aims was the thorny issue of how…

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1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… the social effects of apartheid. Although the World had a black editor, M. T. Moerane , the paper was suffused with the … placed her on a full-time contract…

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1937-Cape Town,South Africa

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

… encounter with police came in 1956 when she adopted a mute Black boy (6). She wanted to send the boy to the school for … she was warned again, this time at…

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1958

Jack Mkhuseli

… 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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1936

George Sewpersadh

… time there was segregation at the University of Natal, Black (African, Coloured and Indian) students received their … flaws but it also had certain…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… policies and for disseminating the policies of the Black Consciousness Movement as much as possible. All this … in April 1972, which was part of a…

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1920-1977

Marimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker

… assiduously to bring about cooperation and unity all black workers. He was elected Secretary of the Natal Sugar … policy of struggle and of unity of action…

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1948

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

… . During his time at UBLS Ndebele was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement  at the University. As Ndebele states, “My involvement in the Black…

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