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People and Organisations

Stuart, James

  • ZA-COM-07788
  • Person
  • 19 July 1936 - 25 January 2016
In 1961 he was recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) military wing uMkhonto we Sizwe's (MK) Luthuli detachment of MK, under the code name 'James Stuart'.

Mvelase, Catherine Dipuo

  • ZA-COM-07801
  • Person
Activist of the post-Soweto generation, who had been involved in the grass-roots struggle in Alexandra. She left the country in 1976 and received military training overseas. Catherine was one of a group that had about 15 to 20 Vula operations who under Mac Maharaj, entered South Africa by crossing the Swaziland border in the 1980s to establish underground networks. She was subsequently imprisoned and subjected to extreme torture by the Security Police.

Sankar, Anesh

  • ZA-COM-07802
  • Person
He was involved with the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Indian structures in Natal. he worked in Operation Vula with Pravin Gordhan and was one of the Vula accused.

Mapumulo, Shadrack Mzizeni

  • ZA-COM-07804
  • Person
Political prisoner on Robben Island. He was one of the people who assisted in Mac Maharaj's escape from South Africa in 1977. He was killed in Swaziland in a raid by South African forces.

United South African National Party

  • ZA-COM-07809
  • Corporate body
Found in 1934 and dissolved in 1977. The United Party was formed by a merger of Prime Minister Barry Hertzog's National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts plus the remnants of the Unionist Party. The full name was the United South African National Party although it was generally called the United Party

Naciker, George

  • ZA-COM-07808
  • Person
  • 1 June 1919 - 8 April 1998
South African anti-apartheid activist of Indian Tamil descent. He was a member of the Natal Indian Congress and African National Congress. Assistant Secretary of the Natal Indian Union. Prisoner on Robben Island.

Singh, Debi

  • ZA-COM-07812
  • Person
  • 1913 - 1970
Teacher, farmer, secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council, secretary of the passiveResistance Council of the Natal Indian Congress. he was imprisoned during Defiance Campaign in 1952, Treason Trial 1956 -1961, Indian passive resistance in South Africa 1946 to 1948.

Matthews, John Edward

  • ZA-COM-07814
  • Person
Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and uMkhonto wesizwe (MK).

Patel, Dipak

  • ZA-COM-07816
  • Person
  • 1964 -
Patel joined the African National Congress in 1980 and was recruited into uMkhonto we Sizwe in 1981. He was a member of South African Communist Party. He did his military training both in ANgola and in South Africa. He was employed as a chemical engineer by South African Breweries until 1989, when he was fully taken up with his political and military activities for the African National Congress or uMkhonto we Sizwe. He was part of the Durban Regional Political Military Committee under the leadership of Pravin Gordhan and became involved in Operation Vula. He was arrested in 1990 along with other Vula operatives.

Motsabi, John

  • ZA-COM-07823
  • Person
He was a member of the African National Congress Revolutionary Council and Chairman of the Internal Political Committee in Lusaka.

Shaik, Yunus

  • ZA-COM-07828
  • Person
In the 1980s he became involved in activities with the Natal Indian Congress and the United Democratic Front. He was detained in 1980 under the terrorism Act and was sent to Modderfontein Prison where he received a broad African National Congress education from other prisoners. He was again detained in 1985 along with his brother.

Maphosho, Florence

  • ZA-COM-07834
  • Person
  • 1921 - 9 August 1985
Full time organizer for the African National Congress, mobilized for the Congress of the People and the 1956 Women's March, headed the Women's section at the Morogoro Conference, member of the ANC's NEC.

Joseph, Dasu

  • ZA-COM-07836
  • Person
He joined the South African Communist Party in the late 1950s and became a member of the South African Communist Party Central Committee. He was also a member of uMkhonto we Sizwebefore going into exile in England.

Leo, Maud

  • ZA-COM-07838
  • Person

Mabizela, Stanely

  • ZA-COM-07841
  • Person
  • ? - 8 April 2003
Struggle activist , President of the African National Congress youth League at Fort Hare University, uMkhonto we Sizwe cadre, African National Congress member and first South African High Commission to Namibia.

Kuzwayo, Judson Diza

  • ZA-COM-07842
  • Person
  • 25 August 1941 - May 1985
He joined the African National Congress in 1957 and later joined uMkhonto we Sizwe unit in 1962. He was arrested the following year while carrying out orders to leave South Africa, he was sentenced to ten years on Robben Island where he participated in political training and completed his high school education.

Dadoo, Yusuf Mohamed

  • ZA-COM-02097
  • Person
  • 5 Sep 1909 - 19 Sep1983
Medical doctor, anti-apartheid activist and orator. President of South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Deputy to Oliver Tambo on the Revolutionary Council of MK. Chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP), 1972–83. Leading member of the ANC. First jailed in 1940 for anti-war activities, and then for six months during the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign. Was among the twenty accused in the 1952 Defiance Campaign Trial. He went underground during the 1960 State of Emergency, and into exile to escape arrest. Awarded the ANC’s highest honour, Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe, in 1955 at the Congress of the People.

Jones, Cyril

  • ZA-COM-07843
  • Person
Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Springbok Legion.

Naicker, Marimuthu Pragalathan

  • ZA-COM-07849
  • Person
  • 1920 - 1977
Political leader, journalist, editor and organizer for the Natal Indian Congress, the Communist Party and the Congress Alliance, accused in the 1956 Treason Trial.

Sexwale, Mosima Gabriel Tokyo

  • ZA-COM-02937
  • Person
  • 5 March 1953 -
South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist and former political prisoner. He was imprisoned on Robben Island for his anti-apartheid activities anlongside figures such as Nelson Mandela.

Jele, Josiah Khiphusizi

  • ZA-COM-07853
  • Person
  • 1 May 1930 -
African National Congress director of International Affairs, African National Congress's political commissar in Tanzania and Ambassador to United Nations(UN) and an Award winner of the Order Luthuli in Silver.

Esakjee, Suliman Moosa

  • ZA-COM-07857
  • Person
  • 1928 - 1 February 2009
Political activist and Treason Trialist involved in the Transvaal Indian Congress, the Congress of the People, the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign and the Defiance Campaign.
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