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1897-1974

Leo Marquard

… as editorial manager of the Oxford University Press from 1946, a position he held until 1960. He was a member of the …

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1886-1946

Franciscus Jacobus Ludovicus De Vriendt

… after the death of his first wife. He died on 27 July 1946 in Springs, South Africa. He had one daughter of his …

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Veerammal Naidoo

… in the Harijan (a newspaper in India ) on 11 August 1946, Gandhi reproduced an extract from a letter he had …

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1924

Ben Baartman

… Mineworkers Union (AMU) and participated in the great 1946 AMU strike . He was fired and headed for Worcester, …

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1878-1941

Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke

… Union (AMWU), which played a very important role in the 1946 mineworkers’ strike. Matseke remained president of the …

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1929-2021

Norman Levy

… Athlone High School in Johannesburg and matriculated in 1946. He became an activist in his early teens, joining and … participating in the Young Communist…

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

… Cape Town branch of the AEU from his father-in-law.  In 1946 Budd became the first president of the Cape Federation …

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1917-1978

Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh

… involved in the Passive Resistance Movement in Durban in 1946. In 1956, she was appointed to the Natal Provincial …

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1936

Bhekisisa Harold Nxasana

… as a mine clerk, was killed in the Zulu-Indian riots of 1946. Nxasana attended the local mission school until grade …

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1898-1967

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

… The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, 1946 (Act No. 28 of 1946) was a legislative measure adopted by the government in … created by the…

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Esmé Berman

… 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and completed a degree in Visual Arts and an honours …

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1888-1963

Bernard Lazarus Sigamoney

… He was a team member and manager of the Transvaal team. In 1946, Sigamoney in partnership with Albert Luthuli  founded …

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1903-1972

J B Marks

… which grew to a membership of over 50,000. On 12 August 1946, over 100,000 miners struck work. They were joined by …

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1908-2003

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia

… Durban. Molvi Cachalia was one of the key figures in the  1946-1947 Indian passive resistance campaign . This campaign … Congress and the African National…

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1900-1976

Emil Sachs

… which operated until the new Unemployment Insurance Act of 1946 came into effect. In 1944 Sachs was instrumental in … the GWU lived, Sachs only managed to…

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1929-2008

Billy Nair

… a shop assistant in a hardware store (A.Baker Bros) from 1946-48, and later as a bookkeeper for an accounting firm. … by the impact of the passive resistance…

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… arguably most famous, novel, Cry, the Beloved Country , in 1946 in Trondheim, Norway. He completed the book on Christmas …

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1911-1963

Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka

… in Orlando, the first township of Soweto. By October 1946, the ADP was facing its demise. In the meantime, his …

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1921-1993

Andries Treurnicht

… and chairman of Polumnia (for theological students). In 1946 Treurnicht was appointed travelling Secretary of the SCA …

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1926-2009

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

… drawing under Heinrich Steiner in Florence. Skotnes 1946 he studied at the Technikon Witwatersrand and from 1947 …

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1908-1984

Frederick Hutchinson Page

… School of Art, where he studied under Jack Heath from 1946 to 1947. With Heath’s encouragement and the growth of …

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1929-2024

James Matthews

… to his being, and his first writings were published in 1946 at the age of 17. Soon he found himself working as a …

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1915-2003

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat

… of the Natal ANC. Docrat was one of the organisers of the  1946 Passive Resistance campaign  in which his wife also …

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1921-1999

Baruch Hirson

… and advocated anti-Zionist positions. Between 1944 and 1946 he worked for the Workers International League, a South …

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1897-1961

Elias Phakane Moretsele

… community during the black mineworkers' strike in August 1946 he was involved in liaison between the ANC and strike …

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1893-1962

Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma

… the 1940s, despite their ideological differences. In April 1946, the African Mine Workers’ Union (AMWU) issued a set of … a strike quickly gained momentum…

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1925-1982

Ruth First

… of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, from 1942 to 1946. She graduated with a BA (Social Studies), receiving … already mentioned, she did support work for the …

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1922

Elsa Joubert

… teacher in Cradock she became editor of  Die Huisgenoot  (1946-1948) and thereafter a full-time writer. Since then …

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1933-1965

Ingrid Jonker

… poems,  Na die Somer  (After the Summer) was compiled in 1946, when she was just thirteen. By sixteen, she was …

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