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1895-1962

Elliot Tonjeni

Elliot Tonjeni was born in 1895 in the Transkei and later went to Cape Town, where he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and was active in the…

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1906-1947

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi

Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi was born on 6 January 1906 in Groutville, Natal. Vilakazi was appointed bantu languages assistant at the University of…

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1932-2009

Aidan Walsh

Aiden Walsh was born in Durban in 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956 to…

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Abner S. Mtimkulu

Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…

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1924-1961

Petros Molefe

Petros Molefe was born in Kroonstad and moved to Johannesburg and worked as a truck driver. He married Maria Molefe and they had no children. Amid the many…

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1915-1971

H. A. Naidoo

H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade unionist, and…

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Nise Bulelwa Malange

Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…

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1922-2010

Eulalie Doreen Stott

Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just three years old, she…

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1852-1927

Elizabeth Maria Molteno

Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…

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1922-1992

Hassan Howa

Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…

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1899-1976

Dora Taylor

Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…

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1955-1985

Malesella Benjamin Moloise

Malesella Benjamin Moloise was born in 1955 in Alexandra. he was a black upholsterer and poet. He was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at…

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1890-1978

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe

Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe was born 5 September 1890 in Kimberley. He obtained his Senior Teacher's Diploma and drawing Teacher's Diploma by studying…

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1880-1963

Edward Arthur Roworth

Edward Roworth was a British born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of…

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1927-2015

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson, a former Methodist Minister was  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he joined the staff of the Christian Institute and two…

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2012

Sitelega Meric Gadlela

Sitelega Meric Gadlela (50) was from Dvokolwako in Swaziland. He began working for Lonmin in 1989 and was with the company for 23 years. Mr Gadlela was killed…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

"As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and imaginative…

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1773-1830

David Stuurman

David Stuurman was born around 1773, probably near the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi and San people were…

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1963

Roger Meintjes

Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…

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Mbongeni Clement Khanyi

Khanyi Mbongeni C. was sent to prison on Robben Island. He was given prison number 0/0071 and was released on February 20th 1981. 

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1790-1868

King Mzilikazi

Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), Matabeleland, in what became Rhodesia and is now…

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Maduna Abednego

Maduna Abednego was released from Robben Island prison on 8 October 1973. His prison number was 1/5392. He was from Zwelithsa Township in King Williamstown.

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Mkhonza Abner

Mkhonza Abner was released from Robben Island prison on the 18th of October 1981. His prison number was 114/7477. He was from Katlehong.

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1870-1943

Sir Patrick Duncan

Sir Patrick Duncan was born on 21 December 1870 in Fortrie (Aberdeen-shire). Duncan first educated in Edinburgh, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he…

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1966

Bellington Mampe

Bellington Mampe was a Poqo activist, He died in hospital while in custody.Mr Bellington Mampe died in September 1963 after being detained for 140 days at the…

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2012

Mphangeli Tukuza

Mphangeli Tukuza (41) was from Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2000. On 16 August 2012 Mr Tukuza was killed at scene 1 after being…

B-0121624

Sithole Thembinkosi Abner

Sithole Thembinkosi Abner was released from Robben Island prison on the 27th of February 1986. His prison number was 15/3271. He was from Durban.

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1926

Leonora van den Heever

Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein. She went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria, and…

B-0009199

1954

Vincent Oliphant

Vincent Oliphant was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the Alicedale…

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1920

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose

Jacob Dumdum Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union…

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