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1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… the next fifty-five years.  They set up home in the late 1950s in Palmboom Road, Newlands, Cape Town and lived there … cause, drew many people to watch him…

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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… as the leading promoter of the Agreement was the main target of all the criticisms.   During the negotiations … (UN). The meeting began on 23 October 1946…

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1935

Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu

… He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s when he was just eighteen years old and started his …

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1817-1887

Jan Gerritze Bantjes

… a prospector who claimed that he was the discoverer of the main reef on the Witwatersrand and who also made an abortive …

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Stephen Bernard Lee

… floor of a Cape Town building. He was found guilty on the main count and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment in …

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1931-2011

Isaiah Stein

… surname. He got into property development and in the late 1950s He met his first wife, Lillian Jacobs. Stein was …

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1937-2006

Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau

… College in Alice where she attended school in the early 1950s. While a student at the University of Fort Hare, Sigcau …

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1942-1991

Dumile Feni

… childhood passion for carving and drawing. In the early 1950s he moved to Johannesburg and began working as an …

B-0008062

1932

Harold Rubin

… (A.A.) London. Rubin began writing his own music in the 1950s, and formed his own quartet. The quartet snuck into the …

B-0008969

1919-1984

Cassim Amra

… required to have a permit to be in the Cape. During the 1950s, Amra was prominent in both the NIC and the South …

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1929-2026

Leon Levy

… in industrial relations in the United Kingdom. In the mid-1950s, he was part of a small group of progressive trade …

B-0008326

1919-1998

George Naicker

… farmers, particularly those in the banana industry. In the 1950s he was a member of the Seaview, Bellair, Hillary and …

B-0068192

1929

Peter Hlaole Molotsi

… a member of the ANC Youth League in Orlando in the early 1950s. He got to know people like Nthato Motlana and others … of the Orlando East branch of the…

B-0068076

1926

Tlou Theophilus Cholo

… African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in the early 1950s. In 1952, he became a card-carrying member of the South …

B-0149417

1928

James Randolph Vigne

… in the radicalization of the Liberal Party in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He became a founder member of the …

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1859-1929

Sir. Julius Jeppe

… Julius Jeppe passed away in London on 2 September 1929. A main suburban street in Pretoria and Jeppe Boys High School …

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1871-1934

Theophilus Dymond Field

… active service in both South West Africa/ Namibia and the main theatre of the War in Europe. Prior to his departure to …

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1941

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa

… of Africa concert . Two years later he returned for The Main Event , a tour that also featured saxophonist, Hugh …

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1928-2007

Peter Moonsammy

… the major anti apartheid campaigns of the late 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, the Moonsamy and his brothers played …

B-0144753

1942-2012

Kewpie

… which were considered the epitome of drag culture in the 1950s. Kewpie’s balls became so popular within the community … South Africa (GALA). “ Kewpie…

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Boy Mvemve

… in 1931, Boy Adolphus Mvemve joined the ANC in the early 1950s. He also became a member of the ANC Youth League, of …

B-0149403

1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

… in its association with the PAC during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The affiliation with the PAC lasted …

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1920-1973

Robert M. Resha

… efforts to mobilise resistance in Sophiatown in the mid-1950s. One of Resha's speeches in late 1956, in which he said …

B-0008948

1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… reputation of being both effective and militant. In the 1950s, it played a leading role in the South African Congress …

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Billy Paddock

… grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where he …

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1895-1970

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… as the leading promoter of the Agreement was the main target of all the criticisms. During the negotiations … (UN). The meeting began on 23 October 1946 with…

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1914-2016

Selloane Ethel Leisa

… in Pretoria, in opposition to the pass laws . In the 1950s, she married her husband Nicodemus Leisa. However, …

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Mohammed Tikly

… in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s.  He lived in Pietersburg, (now Polokwane, in Northern …

B-0149415

1881-1971

Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane

… and it rejected the commission's findings.During the 1950s Mahabane increasingly applied himself to the problems …

B-0008376

1931-2020

Jürgen Schadeberg

… and knowledgeable about black life and culture. By the mid-1950s Drum had grown as a publication and had attracted some …

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