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1915-1976

Johanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers

… trade union, was fiercely opposed by white unions and Afrikaner Nationalist movements, who branded E.S. Sachs , …

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1937

Adriaan Vlok

… right wing groups, Vlok held talks with the leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, Eugene Terre Blanche, in effort …

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1963

Robert John McBride

… schoolteachers. His maternal grandparents were a White Afrikaner bus driver from the rural village of Harding in …

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Piet Retief

… with leadership in this period. He mediated between the Afrikaner farmers and the British government, and when talks …

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1853-1917

Dr. Leander Starr Jameson

… investors in the Transvaal (the Uitlanders) to resist Afrikaner domination and agitate for citizenship. Rhodes …

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Tuntubele Qeliso

According to his banishment order, in 1957 Tuntubele Qeliso was dismissed from his post as headman of Ncolosi Location, Tsolo District [Eastern Province, now…

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1854-1925

Alfred Milner

… at least in the Cape Colony. He made the leaders of the (Afrikaner) Bond understand that as British citizens they … fairly quiet since he had arrived, was…

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1928-1986

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo

… his cousin and 'junior' in traditional terms, would accord him due respect (later, in prison, he wrote to Kaiser …

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1916-1976

Dawood Seedat

… Nationalist Bloc of the Natal Indian Association (NIA) to accord ‘a Public Welcome to a Young Leader who was imprisoned …

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1942-1993

Chris Hani

… figures in the eyes of South Africa's extreme right: the Afrikaner Weerstandsbewging (AWB, Afrikaner Resistance Movement) and the Conservative Party …

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1931-2000

Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

… had also fought in the  Second Anglo-Boer War , making Afrikaner liberty an important factor in Coetsee’s …

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1798-1872

King Mpande kaSenzangakhona

… rivals.   Meanwhile Mpande was faced with both British and Afrikaner settlers on his borders, and he tried not to …

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1945-2013

Dirk Johannes Coetzee

… 1989, Jacques Pauw a journalist for the progressive Afrikaner newspaper, Vrye Weekblad , broke the story of …

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1976

Thola Mosala

Mr Thola Mosala was detained on 31 August 1976 together with chief Neo Sibi. Mr Mosala was a leader of a Sotho minority in the Transkei who strongly opposed…

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1979

Lewis Baker

… the Second World War they battled the Ossewa Brandwag , an Afrikaner nationalist movement that strongly opposed South …

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Mxoshwa Mdhluli

Mxoshwa Mdhluli and Mhlupeki Hlongwane were banished, from Ngoba Location, Bergville District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] on 11 April 1957. Their banishment…

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1918-2002

Wolfie Kodesh

… Together with First, they also wrote an exposé of the Afrikaner secret society, the Broederbond . Given the …

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1925-2013

Colin Wells Eglin

… activities. He also held a symposium of 50 Afrikaner academics in 1971, from which a non-party-political …

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1940-2010

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

… between the liberation movement and a group of mainly Afrikaner politicians, academics and businessmen. The …

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1943-2009

Jan van Eck

… aware of the enormous role that this quiet, but competent Afrikaner and African, played in Burundi.  "He succeeded with …

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1812-1917

Sir George Grey

… is now known as East Griqualand. These measures were in accord with Grey's policy of integration and were influenced …

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1928-2011

Dorothy Adams

Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…

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1900-1979

Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers

… den Heever en P. de V. Pienaar, Kultuurgeskiedenis van die Afrikaner 3, 1950 Ons Dutche voorouers en Die Afrikaanse …

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1851-1919

Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino

… of Black societal achievement. He was also against the Afrikaner Bond – and his aversion to it was in keeping with …

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1944

Subbiah Moodley

… Prison in the then Transvaal (now Gauteng). Here an Afrikaner warder assaulted him with a leather cane, which had …

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1900

Thomas Mbeki

Little is known of his background except that he was Xhosa-speaking and born about 1900. About 1924 he enrolled in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)…

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Michael Matlala

Michael (‘Mikia’) Matlala took part in Wold War 1. According to his family, he was banished, from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal …

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Alfred Mamagale Tebeila

The banishment of Alfred Mamagale Tebeila, Mamogase Sebei, Mashilo Tseke Nchabeleng, and Kgalabotwane Tseke from Sekhukhuneland, Lydenburg District, Transvaal …

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1961

Mhlupeki Hlongwane

Mhlupeki Hlongwane and Mxoshwa Mdhluli were banished from Ngoba Location, Bergville District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]on 11 April 1957. Their banishment…

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Joshua Ramopudu

In 1962, people from a ‘swartkol’ (‘black spot’), Maleuskop, between Groblersdal [Limpopo Province] and Middelburg [Mpumalanga] were removed and relocated at…

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