Mohammed Tikly 7 July 1939, Pietersburg (now Polokwane – 11 March 2020, Johannesburg) was a South African educator and struggle veteran. A member of the ANC, he spent over thirty years in exile in the UK, Tanzania and Zambia. He was a former director of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) in Tanzania. Contents 1Early life and
Mary Thipe was a South African anti-apartheid and human rights activist who took part in the 1956 Women’s March against apartheid pass laws, the South African potato boycott of 1959 and the Cato Manor Beer Hall boycott in the same year. Thipe was also the vice-chairperson of the Cato Manor branch of African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) during the 1950s. Contents 1Personal life 2Political work 3Legacy
Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo 27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993, also known as O. R. Tambo, was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991. Contents 1Biography 1.1Early life 1.2League 1.3Exile in London 1.4Guerrilla activity 1.5Return to South Africa 1.6Death 2International relationships 3Honours 4See also 5Notes 6Further reading 6.1Books
Adelaide Frances Tambo née Tshukudu; 18 July 1929 – 31 January 2007 was a South African anti-apartheid activist, political exile, and regarded as a hero of the liberation struggle against apartheid. She was involved in South African politics for five decades and was married to the late Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress (ANC), from 1956
Dora Ntloko Tamana 11 November 1901 – 23 July 1983 was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Contents 1Early life 2Career 3Personal life 4References 5External links Early life Dora Ntloko was born at Nqamakwe, in Hlobo, Transkei, near Dutywa. Her grandfather was a Methodist preacher, but as a teen Dora converted, with her family, to the Israelite
Helen Suzman, DBE née Gavronsky; 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009 was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a succession of liberal and centre-left opposition parties during her 36-year tenure in the whites-only, National Party-controlled House of Assembly of South Africa at the height of the apartheid era. She hosted the meeting that
Robert Harold Lundie “Jock” Strachan 1 December 1925 – 7 February 2020 was a white South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. He flew for the South African Air Force during the Second World War, trained as an artist, then became Umkhonto we Sizwe’s first explosives expert. He was imprisoned for sabotage, and after his release
Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile 27 December 1944 – 15 August 2016 was a South African politician. He was Minister of Sport and Recreation from 2004 to 2010. At the time of his death he was serving as Ambassador to Germany. Stofile was born in Adelaide in the Eastern Cape. He studied towards a master’s degree in Theology at the University of Fort Hare, and he
Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe 27 July 1927–15 August 2018 was a South African nurse who played an integral role in the Defiance Campaign. Her husband, Robert Sobukwe, was a prominent political dissident. Her family was constantly harassed by the police. Background Veronica Sobukwe (née Mate) was born on July 27, 1927, in Hlobane, KwaZulu-Natal. Sobukwe was
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe 5 December 1924 – 27 February 1978 was a prominent South African political dissident and teacher, who founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the South African apartheid system. During his lifetime, Sobukwe was considered to be so dangerous by the National Party government that its parliament enacted the “Sobukwe clause”, a statute which on