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Lekoto, Andrew Mandla

  • ZA-COM-08457
  • Person
  • 27 October 1936 - 20 April 2008
Political activist and uMkhonto we Sizwe Commissar, Robben Island prisoner. He later played a key role in the formation of the new South African National Defence Force.

Maosa, Clement

  • ZA-COM-08472
  • Person
Clement Maosa is a DJ, South African actor, most famous for playing the role of Zamokuhle Seakamela in the SABC1 soap opera, Skeem Saam.

de Kock, Gerhardus

  • ZA-COM-08506
  • Person
  • 14 February 1926 - 7 August 1989

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.

Owen, Ken

  • ZA-COM-08524
  • Person

Neethling, Lothar

  • ZA-COM-08530
  • Person
  • 29 August 1935 - 11 July 2005

Maphai, Vincent

  • ZA-COM-08543
  • Person
Corporate Affairs Director, South African Breweries and Chairman of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. He previously chaired the Political Science Department at the University of the Western Cape and is also past President of the South African Political Science Association and a council member of the University of South Africa. He was chairperson of the Presidential Review Commission and serves on various boards, including Anglo Vaal Mining Limited, and community trusts.

Johnson, Nkosi

  • ZA-COM-08547
  • Person
  • 4 February 1989 - 1 June 2001
HIV child activist. He was born Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother in a township on the East rand. When his mother became too ill to take care of him, she gave him up for adoption. He was adopted by Johannesburg public relations officer Gail Johnson. She changed his name to Nkosi Johnson. Johnson was thrust into the media when a primary school in Johannesburg refused to admit him as a pupil because of his HIV status. The incident also marked the beginning of his HIV/AIDS activism.

Gastrow, Peter

  • ZA-COM-08553
  • Person
  • 8 June 1947 -
South African politician and former parliamentarian.
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