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20 January-1967

Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)

… that had become home to over a million people by the mid-1960s. There he married Nomvula Jumaima Mkhubukeli (born … the increasingly oppressive restrictions…

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1905-1994

Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels

… Johannesburg Bar, he opposed several pieces of oppressive legislation enacted by the government, including the … affected by the apartheid government's…

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1793-1876

William Cock

In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…

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Ambrose Makiwane

… protests against the Transfer Act of 1959. This piece of legislation sought to restrict the University of Fort Hare to …

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1899-1975

Julius Louis Saks

… the case Rex vs. Saks became a cornerstone of optometric legislation in many parts of the western world. Saks is …

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1939-2013

Pius Nkonzo Langa

… chaired a technical committee tasked with reviewing health legislation and later became a member of a Commission of …

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1934-2004

Dullah Mohamed Omar

… trials which were becoming increasingly prominent in the 1960s. For instance in the early 1960s he defended accused members of Poqo, the armed wing of … upon…

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1938-1996

Motlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho

His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of Mokhotlong in the…

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1903-1988

Alan Stewart Paton

… position until the party’s dissolution in 1968 due to new legislation banning multiracial political parties. Paton …

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1909-2002

Leslie Rubin

… – a position he used to fight every piece of apartheid legislation. Whenever he got up to speak, the Minister of …

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1921-2004

Ambrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane

… protests against the Transfer Act of 1959. This piece of legislation sought to restrict the University of Fort Hare to …

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1928-2009

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

… for a short while at Rosebank Police Station during the 1960s in terms of security legislation. Quarter was well known for his sense of humour, …

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1919-1987

James Madhlope Phillips

… , Phillips and his friend Solly Sachs   fell victim to the legislation. In 1953 both of them were slapped with banning …

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1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… strike in protest against proposed anti-trade union legislation.  This was his first experience of prison life. …

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1916-2015

Sarah Carneson

… (NP) government enacted its first piece of repressive legislation — the Suppression of Communism Act - and Sarah …

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1906-1983

Victor Sidney Norton

… Times  threw itself into the battle against the wave of legislation that removed coloured voters in the Cape from the …

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1926-1982

Poomoney Moodley

… against her during this imprisonment. [vi] Under this legislation, she was denied access to family, friends, …

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Helen Newton Thompson

… advice. They continued to fight against the apartheid legislation with financial aid, legal aid or silent protests. …

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1941-2021

Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane

Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…

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Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… organise themselves to protest and deal with the proposed legislation. This conference decided to send a delegation of … school named after him in Merebank,…

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1895-1970

Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather

… organise themselves to protest and deal with the proposed legislation. This conference decided to send a delegation of … school named after him in Merebank,…

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1960

Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender

Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…

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John Jacques William Aitchison

… part in students' protests against the draconian security legislation ( Sabotage Act of 1962  and  90 days detention of … in the resistance to forced…

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1913-1998

Father Trevor Huddleston

… Superintendent of St Peter’s School. With the passing into legislation of the Group Areas Act in 1950, Huddleston, along …

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1909-1983

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo

… stall the success of the Indian businesses. This piece of legislation declared that Indians could only conduct trade in … as a patron.  Dadoo was eventually…

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Thoko Phillip Mamogobo

… his family, the separation of his family through Apartheid legislation spurred Mamagobo on to fight the injustices of …

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1926-2004

Wilfrid Edward Cooper

… in the mid 1950s at the University of Cape Town and in the 1960s and 1970s in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, … B R Bamford) 1967       South Africa…

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1914-1998

Archibald Jacob Gumede

… until February 1964 in terms of the 90-day legislation. Gumede began his legal studies with the …

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1894-1982

Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart

… of amendments in a series of acts; the introduction of legislation on marriage and the rights of women; the …

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1943-2017

Govin Reddy

… family was later dispossessed of the house and farm in the 1960s under the Group Areas Act , making way for the township … Prison in Benoni, Transvaal (now…

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