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Phetlhu, Ogone

  • ZA-COM-09390
  • Person
  • 6 January 1990 -

Galeta, Hotep

  • ZA-COM-09394
  • Person
  • 7 June 1941 - 3 November 2010

Sundkler, Bengt

  • ZA-COM-07963
  • Person
  • 7 May 1909 - 5 April 1995
Swedish-Tanzanian Church historian, Professor and Bishop of Bukoba.

Mqota, Temba

  • ZA-COM-09402
  • Person
  • 1928 -
Member of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1946 and supported the Indian struggle against the "Ghetto" Act. Prominent in organizing the Laundry Workers' Union in Port Elizabeth.

Mwaanga, Vernon

  • ZA-COM-09419
  • Person
  • 25 June 1944 -
Zambian diplomat and politician.

Moretsele, Elias

  • ZA-COM-09426
  • Person
  • 1897- March 1961
Businessman, Transvaal President of the African National Congress (ANC) and defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial.

Bernstein, Hilda

  • ZA-COM-02254
  • Person
  • 15 May 1915 - 8 September 2006
Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party (SACP), founding member of the Federation of South African Women. In 1953 she was banned by Ministerial decree from 26 organizations and all meetings, including bans on writing and being published. In 1960, she was detained under the State of Emergency without charge following the Sharpeville shootings.

Thorne, Athol

  • ZA-COM-09436
  • Person
  • 15 October 1921 - 14 September 2001
Athol joined the Communist Party of South Africa in 1947. In 1953, on his return from London, Athol was recruited into the underground reconstituted South African Party which had been declared illegal in 1950. He became a member of the Cape Town District Committee. In the early stage Athol worked on the rebuilding of the Communist Party and alongside that became the Western Cape regional secretary of the white Congress of the Democrats. On 28 September 1955 he was banned as a member of Communist Party; Secretary of the Congress of Democrats (Western Cape).

Benson, Mary

  • ZA-COM-03275
  • Person
  • 1919 - 2000
A friend of Mandela’s, Benson was a journalist, author, and anti-apartheid activist. After serving as an aide to various generals in World War II she settled in England. She returned to South Africa in 1957 and worked to raise funds for the defence of Mandela and 155 other accused in the Treason Trial. Mandela visited her in London on his clandestine trip
out of South Africa in 1962. Among her books is Mandela: The Man and the Movement (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986).
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