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People and Organisations

Moodley, Mary

  • ZA-COM-08863
  • Person
  • 1913 - 23 October 1979
Trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. She was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and a founder member of the South African Coloured People's Congress (SACPO).

Moodley, Srinivasa Rajoo (Strini)

  • ZA-COM-06346
  • Person
  • 1946–2006
Journalists and anti-apartheid activist. A founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement, he was banned, arrested in 1974, charged with terrorism and sentenced to five years on Robben Island in 1976. When released in late 1981 worked as a journalist.

Moolla, Moosa

  • ZA-COM-00535
  • Person
  • 14 June 1934 - 25 March 2023

Moosa, Mohammed Valli

  • ZA-COM-03491
  • Person
  • 1957–
Anti-apartheid activist, politician and businessman. Leading member of the UDF. Participated in the multiparty negotiations to end white minority rule. Deputy minister for provincial and constitutional affairs in Mandela’s cabinet. After the National Party left the GNU in 1996, he became minister in this department. From 1999 he became environment and tourism minister. He went into business after leaving government.

Moosa, Rahima

  • ZA-COM-07630
  • Person
  • 14 October 1922 - 29 May 1993
Former member of Transvaal Indian Congress and member of the African National Congress (ANC). She played a role in the National uprising of women on 9 August 1956. She was a shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers Union.

Mophosho, Florence

  • ZA-COM-06354
  • Person
  • 1921–1985
Anti-apartheid activist. Inspired by the Defiance Campaign of 1952, she joined the African National Congress. She helped to organise the Congress of the People and was a member of the Alexandra Bus Boycott Committee. During the state of emergency, she went underground and continued to work as an organiser for the ANC until she left the country.

Moran, R.

  • ZA-COM-09328
  • Person

Moreillon, Jacques

  • ZA-COM-00338
  • Person
Dr Moreillon was part of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation that visited Robben Island from 1963 to 1986.

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.

Moroka, James

  • ZA-COM-03616
  • Person
  • 1892–1985
Medical doctor, politician and anti-apartheid activist. President of the ANC, 1949–52. Convicted in the Defiance Campaign Trial in 1952. During the trial he appointed his own lawyer, disassociated himself from the ANC and pleaded for mitigation. As a consequence he was not re-elected president of the ANC, and was replaced by Chief Luthuli.

Morolong, Joseph

  • ZA-COM-08522
  • Person
  • 1927-
Member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the African National Congress, defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial.

Morrison, Toni

  • ZA-COM-09946
  • Person
  • 18 February 1931 - 05 August 2019
She is an American writer noted for her examination of Black experience particularly Black female experience within the Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
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