Many of the artefacts in the Luthuli Museum online catalogue tell us more about the characters who were involved in the Liberation Movement or featured in this period of history. The individuals listed below are some of the people that our collection items relate to. If you want additional information about these people, or find mention of an individual in the artefacts who is not listed below, do not hesitate to contact us to find out more:
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Arenstein, |
Rowley, Israel |
1919 |
Attorney, Political Activist, member of the SACP and the COD |
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Asmal, |
Kader |
1934 –2011 |
Minister of Education (1999 – 2004), Minister of Water Affairs,(1994 – 1999) and a member of Parliament in the National Assembly from 1994– 2007. |
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Bayat, |
Ayesha |
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Teacher trainer, Edgewood college. Attended Chief Luthuli's funeral on 21st July 1967. |
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Benson, |
Mary |
1919 - 2000 |
Author and activist. |
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Bernstein, |
Rusty Lionel |
1920 - 2002 |
Writer, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member awarded The Order of Luthuli in Gold. |
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Beukes, |
Hans |
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Namibian writer and former activist who escaped from South Africa into Botswana to take up a scholarship to study in Oslo, Norway, in 1959. |
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Biko, |
Steve |
1946 - 1977 |
A Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) leader, South Africa’s most influential and radical student leader in the 1970s and a law student at the time of his death. He became a martyr of the Freedom Struggle and posed one of the strongest challenges to the apartheid structure in the country. |
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Booth, |
William |
1829 - 1912 |
Founder of the Salvation Army |
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Boraine, |
Alex |
1931 - |
Progressive Federal Party—Director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa Vice-Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
http://www.liberationafrica.se/intervstories/interviews/boraine/?by-name=1 |
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Botha, |
Con |
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MPC, Secretary of the Nationalist Party in Natal, 1966 |
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Brookes, |
Dr Edgar |
1927 - |
Political activist, academic, lay clergy and member of the Liberal Party |
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Buthelezi, |
Mangosuthu |
1928 - |
South African politician and the founder the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/mangosuthu-gatsha-buthelezi |
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Cele, |
Bheki |
1952 - |
Former National Commissioner of the South African Police Service and former MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison in KwaZulu-Natal. Former member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress. |
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Cele, |
Mwelela |
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Member of Gumede family and historian of kholwa community. Former curator at the Luthuli Museum. |
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Champion, |
A W G |
1893 - 1975 |
Trade Unionist, Political Activist and Civic Leader. |
http://v1.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/champion-awg.htm |
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Coetzee, |
Blaar |
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Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, 1960s |
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Conco, |
Dr Winston Z |
1919 |
Medical doctor, national treasurer of the ANC Youth League in 1950s, member of the ANC, 1956 Treason trialist. |
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Couper, |
Revd Dr Scott |
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Author of Albert Luthuli: Bound by Faith |
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Dadoo, |
Dr Yusuf |
1909 - 1983 |
Medical doctor, political activist and Chairman of the SACP |
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Daniel, |
Dr John |
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Activist and academic. Retired Professor of Political Science who taught in South Africa, Swaziland, the UK and USA. In the mid-1960s, he was the Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and in June 1966, he hosted the visit of Senator Robert F. Kennedy to South Africa. |
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Duncan Stewart |
Congregational Minister who attended Chief Luthuli's funeral |
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De Klerk, |
F W |
1936 - |
State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1990 he opened negotiations with previously outlawed anti-apartheid organizations. De Klerk was appointed the Second Vice President in President Mandela’s cabinet. |
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De Klerk, |
Jan |
1903 - 1979 |
Teacher, member of the National Party and Minister of Education, Art & Science, Senator and Father of former Pres. F.W. de Klerk |
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Dludla, |
B K |
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Personal acquaintance of Chief Luthuli through the Church. |
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Dube, |
Rev. John L |
1871 - 1946 |
Political activist, First ANC President General. Actively involved in the Bhambatha rebellion. |
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First, |
Ruth |
1925 - 1982 |
Journalist, academic, political activist and member of the SACP |
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Fischer, |
Bram |
1908 - 1975 |
Lawyer and Chairman of the SACP |
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Gandhi, |
Mohandas Karamchand, ‘the Mahatma’ |
1869 - 1948 |
The Father of the Indian nation, Gandhi led India to independence by pursuing strategies of resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience based on a philosophy of total nonviolence. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/mohandas-mahatma-karamchand-gandhi |
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Garvey, |
Marcus |
1887 - 1940 |
Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. |
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Gcabashe, |
Thandeka |
1934 - |
née Thankdeka Luthuli Third child of Chief Albert and Nokukhanya Luthuli. |
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Gcabashe, |
Walter Thulani |
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Former husband of Thandeka Gcabashe née Luthuli |
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Goba, |
Charlotte |
1918 – 1999 |
"Sister" of Chief Luthuli and his adoptive daughter; Goba and Luthuli shared a common paternal grandfather. Goba later taught at Inanda Seminary. |
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Grout, |
Rev. Aldin |
1803 -1894 |
American Board Missionary, first arrived in South Africa in 1934 and later established the Umvoti Mission Station, which later became known as Groutville |
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Gumede, |
Archie |
1914 - 1998 |
Parliamentarian, lawyer and member of the UDF and ANC |
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Hammarskjold, |
Dag |
1905 - 1961 |
Secretary General of the U.N. (1953 - 1961). Awarded Nobel Prize for Peace for 1961 posthumously. |
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1961/hammarskjold.html |
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Harrison, |
Ronald |
1940 - 2011 |
Artist. His most famous work, Black Christ (1962), depicted Chief Albert Luthuli as Christ crucified, flanked by two Roman centurions, then National Party prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd and justice minister John Vorster. |
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Hill, |
Jean |
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Political activist, member of the Institute of Race Relations and Blacksash and acquaintance of Chief Luthuli. |
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Hooper, |
Mary Louisa |
1907 - 1987 |
Wealthy American heiress and civil rights activist and anti-apartheid activist. First white member of the ANC, she was expelled from South Africa in 1957 for political agitation. |
http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-18D |
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Houphouet-Boigny, |
Felix |
1905 - 1993 |
Nationalist, doctor, and first president of Côte d'Ivoire. At his death he was the longest serving president of Africa and the third longest in the world |
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Jahn, |
Gunnar |
1883 - 1971 |
Economist. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 1938-1966. He served as chairman of the committee from 1942 to 1966. |
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/committee/nnclist/bios/jahn.html |
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Jordan, |
Pallo |
1942 - |
Former Minister of Arts and Culture, political activist, scholar, analyst and writer. |
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Kally, |
Ranjith |
1925 - |
Photographer at DRUM between 1956 - 1965 and again from 1968 – 1985, Kally produced some of his most brilliant pictures of the South African Liberation Movement. Of everyone he photographed, Kally said that the leader who made the greatest impression on him was Chief Albert Luthuli. |
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Kano, |
Aminu |
1920 - 1983 |
Muslim politician from Nigeria who led an Islamic movement in the north of the country in opposition to British rule. |
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Kasrils, |
Ronnie |
1938 |
Member of the African National Congress (ANC); Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and secretary of the Congress of Democrats in the early 1960s; Deputy Minister of Defence (1994 -1999; Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry (1999- 2004) and Minister of Intelligence Services (2004 – 2008). |
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Kathrada, |
Ahmed |
1929 |
A veteran of the South African liberation struggle, Treason Trialists, long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island and Pollsmoor Maximum Prison, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Member of Parliament. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/ahmed-mohamed-kathy-kathrada |
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Kennedy, |
J F |
1917 - 1963 |
35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. |
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Kennedy, |
Robert |
1925 - 1968 |
American politician, Democratic senator from New York, and noted civil rights activist. He toured South Africa in 1966 where he met Chief Luthuli at his home in Groutville. |
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King, |
Coretta Scott |
1927 - 2006 |
American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. |
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King, |
Martin Luther |
1929 - 1968 |
American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. |
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html |
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Kotane, |
Moses |
1905 - 1978 |
General secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the African National Congress |
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La Guma, |
James |
1894 -961 |
Trade unionist and political activist, member of the ICU, CPSA and the ANC |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/james-arnold-jimmy-la-guma |
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Levson, |
Frieda |
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Worked with Chief Luthuli as part of the Treason Trial committee. |
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Louw, |
Eric |
1890 -1968 |
nationalist Party cabinet minister best known as South Africa's representative at UNO, Commonwealth
and other overseas conferences. |
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Luthuli, |
Dr Albertinah |
1932 - |
Eldest daughter of Chief Albert and Nokukhanya Luthuli. member of Parliament, South Africa. |
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Luthuli, |
Chief Albert |
~1898 - 1967 |
President-General of the African National Congress from December 1952 until his death in 1967, and Africa's first Nobel Peace Laureate. |
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Luthuli, |
Christian ‘Bhoyi’ |
1942 - 2009 |
Sixth child of Chief Albert and Nokukhanya Luthuli |
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Luthuli, |
Edgar Sibusiso |
1945 - 1993 |
Youngest son of Chief Albert and Nokukhanya Luthuli |
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Luthuli, |
Hilda |
1934 - |
See: Gcabashe, Thandeka |
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Luthuli, |
Hugh Bunyan Sulenkosi |
1929 - |
Eldest child of Chief Albert and Nokukhanya Luthuli |
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Luthuli, |
Thembekile Jane |
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Fifth child of Chief Albert and Nokukhanya Luthuli |
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Luthuli, |
Martin |
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Chief Luthuli's uncle, Martin Luthuli, was elected Chief of the Christian Zulus inhabiting Umvoti Mission Reserve around Groutville when his nephew came to live with him in 1908. |
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Luthuli, |
Motsumi |
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Chief Luthuli's first grandchild and Dr Albertinah Luthuli's firstborn. |
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Luthuli, |
Mthunzi |
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Grandchild of Chief Luthuli and firstborn of Edgar Sibusiso Luthuli. |
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Luthuli, |
Nokukhanya MaBhengu |
1904 - 1996 |
Wife of Chief Albert Luthuli. |
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Luthuli, |
Veli |
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Former wife of Edgar Sibusiso Luthuli. |
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Mabhida, |
Moses |
1923 - 1986 |
Mabhida was an outstanding leader of humble origins who became a dominant figure in the trade union movement, the African National Congress (ANC), and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), both inside South Africa and in exile. |
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MacMillan, |
Harold |
1894 - 1986 |
Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1957 to 1963. Famous in South Africa for his "Winds of Change" speech to Parliament, 1960. |
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/355161/Harold-Macmillan |
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Magubane, |
Bernard |
1930 - |
South African academic and activist. Went into exile in the USA in 1961 and remained committed member of the ANC. |
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Maharaj, |
Mac |
1935 - |
Political activist and a member of the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/satyandranath-mac-maharaj |
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Mohamed, |
E V |
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Editor of llanga, Dhlomo, bookkeeper in Stanger and close friend of Chief Luthuli. He regularly accommodated the Chief and ANC members at his office and home. |
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Mohamed, |
Yunus |
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Son of E V Mohamed. |
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Malindi, |
Zoli |
1924 - 2008 |
Trade unionist, member of the ANC, President of the UDF (Western Cape) |
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Mandela, |
Nelson |
1918 - |
A qualified lawyer, anti-apartheid activist and former South African President. He was elected president in 1994, in South Africa's first democratic vote, and served until 1999. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/nelson-rolihlahla-mandela |
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Mandela, |
Winnie Madikizela |
1936 |
ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of the NEC of the ANC |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/winnie-madikizela-mandela |
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Maponya, |
Mafukuzela Selborne |
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Luthuli's secretary during the 1950s. |
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Matthews, |
Professor Z K |
1901 - 1968 |
South African academic, African National Congress politician, Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/professor-zachariah-keodirelang-zk-matthews |
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Mbeki, |
Thabo |
1942 - |
Former President of South Africa, first deputy president in the new Government of National Unity. |
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Mbhele, |
Lalelani |
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Artist. |
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Meer, |
Fatima |
1928 - 2010 |
Political leader, academic, publisher, writer, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian. |
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Meer, |
Ismail |
1918 - 2000 |
Journalist, trade unionist, attorney and political activist, Member of Parliament (Provincial), for his contribution to a non-racial and democratic South Africa, struggle for liberation, workers’ rights and for the formation of the Natal Teachers’ Union was awarded the Order of Luthuli in Silver. |
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Mhlope, |
Gcina |
1959 - |
South African freedom fighter, activist, actor, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author. |
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Naicker |
Dr Monty |
1910 -1978 |
Medical doctor, co-founder and first chairperson of the Anti-Segregation Council, President of the NIC |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/dr-gagathura-mohambry-monty-naicker |
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Naidoo, |
G R |
1928 - 1982 |
Photojournalist and activist, he joined Drum magazine in 1954 and later covered the Treason Trial. |
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Naidoo, |
Loganathan |
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Principal author of In the shadow of Chief Albert Luthuli-Reflections of Goolam Suleman |
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Nair, |
Billy |
1929 - 2008 |
Activist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of Parliament. |
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Nakasa, |
Nat |
1937 - 1965 |
Journalist and author |
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Ngubane, |
Jordan |
1917 - 1985 |
Journalist, novelist and political activist |
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Padayachie, |
Roy |
1950 - |
Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa, joined the African National Congress in 1972 and Served as Executive Member of the Natal Indian Congress. |
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Paton, |
Alan |
1903 - 1988 |
Renowned author of Cry, the Beloved Country, founding member and leader of the Liberal Party and social reformer. |
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Reddy, |
Freddy |
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Left South Africa for the UK in 1957 and then moved to Oslo, Norway in 1961 to study medicine. |
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Resha, |
Robert |
1920 - 1973 |
Sports editor of New Age and The World, member of the ANC Youth League. |
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Reuling, |
John |
1906 - 1990 |
Missionary teacher of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) at Adams College, Natal, South Africa (1927-1941), where he was director of teacher training. Attended Nobel ceremony in Norway when Luthuli was awarded Peace Prize. |
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Robertson, |
Ian |
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President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) when he was banned by the government a month before Senator Kennedy's visit. |
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Sachs, |
Judge Albie |
1935 |
Member of the ANC, helped draft the ANC's Code of Conduct and statutes, member of the Constitutional Committee and National Executive Committee of the ANC, Director of Research for the Ministry of Justice, constitutional Court Judge and author. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/judge-albert-louis-albie-sachs |
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Sisulu, |
Albertina |
1918 - 2011 |
'The mother of the nation', activist and nurse, she struggled her whole life for human rights and dignity. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/albertina-nontsikelelo-sisulu |
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Sisulu, |
Walter |
1912 - 2003 |
South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and one of the foremost influences in South African politics. |
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Sithole, |
Jabulani |
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Activist and historian. Expert on Chief Luthuli. |
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Sivetye, |
Donald |
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Teacher at Nonhlevu Secondary. |
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Smuts, |
Jan |
1870 - 1950 |
Politician, world-famed statesman, soldier, naturalist, philosopher and former Prime Minister of South Africa |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/general-jan-christiaan-smuts |
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Suleman, |
Goolam |
1929 - 2005 |
Friend and assistant to Chief Luthuli. |
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Suttner, |
Raymond |
1945 - |
Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa, Suttner was a political prisoner sentenced for ANC underground activities between 1975 and 1983. |
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Suzman, |
Helen |
1917 - 2009 |
Parliamentarian, Human Rights Activist, sole representative of opposition party (the Progressive Party) in parliament during apartheid. |
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Swart, |
Ray |
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Chairman of the Progressive Party in Natal, 1960s. |
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Tambo, |
Oliver |
1917 - 1983 |
Politician and activist against apartheid. |
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Tutu, |
Archbishop Desmond |
1931 - |
Outspoken critic of apartheid, teacher, author, lecturer, Nobel Prize winner, former Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/archbishop-emeritus-mpilo-desmond-tutu |
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Verwoerd, |
Hendrick |
1901 - 1966 |
Academic, South African Prime Minister, considered to be the primary architect of apartheid |
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Vilakazi, |
Dr Benedict Wallet |
1906 - 1947 |
Distinguished Zulu poet, born in Groutville |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/dr-benedict-wallet-vilakazi |
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Vorster, |
Balthazar Johannes |
1915 - 1983 |
Lawyer, instrumental in the founding of the Ossewa-Brandwag, and also became a general in its paramilitary wing, Minister of Justice, Prime Minister of South Africa and later President of South Africa. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/balthazar-johannes-vorster |
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Weinberg, |
Eli |
1908 - 1991 |
Trade Unionist and photographer. |
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Yengwa, |
Edith |
1927 - 2007 |
Married M B Yengwa in 1957. |
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Yengwa, |
M B |
1923 - 1987 |
A prominent leader of the ANC in Natal in the 1950s. |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/massabalala-bonnie-yengwa |
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Zuma, |
Jacob |
1942 - |
Current President of South Africa, President of the ANC |
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/jacob-gedleyihlekisa-zuma-0 |
Sources:
South African History Online: http://www.sahistory.org.za/
Who's Who Southern Africa: http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/
Nobelprize.org: http://www.nobelprize.org/
African Activist Archive: http://africanactivist.msu.edu/
Encyclopedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/
The Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa Project: http://www.liberationafrica.se/