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Sak, Len

  • ZA-COM-00101
  • Person

Willman, Matthew

  • ZA-COM-00107
  • Person
He is Durban based documentary photographer. He has worked in 42 countries and was the photographer commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to capture Mandela moments for 10 years.

Mpho, Motsamayi

  • ZA-COM-00111
  • Person
  • 3 February 1921 - 28 November 2012

Mqhayi, S. E. K.

  • ZA-COM-00112
  • Person
  • 1 Dec 1875 - 29 July 1945
Xhosa poet, historian, and translator who has been called the “father of Xhosa poetry.”

Nehru, Jawaharlal

  • ZA-COM-00117
  • Person
  • 14 November 1889-27 May 1964
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist, and subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community.

Hobday, Ruth Anna

  • ZA-COM-00119
  • Person
Partner in the company Blackwell and Ruth Limited.

Rein, Rudolph Werner

  • ZA-COM-00142
  • Person

Rudolph Werner Rein was Attorney-General for the Province of Transvaal, prosecuting for and on behalf of the State at the Rivonia Trial (State v. Nelson Mandela and Others).

Umkhonto weSizwe (MK)

  • ZA-COM-00143
  • Corporate body
Umkhonto weSizwe, meaning ‘spear of the nation’, was founded in 1961 and is commonly known by the abbreviation MK. Nelson Mandela was its first commander-in-chief. It became the military wing of the ANC. On the eve of the 1994 elections MK was disbanded and its soldiers incorporated into the newly formed South African National Defence Force (SANDF) with soldiers from the apartheid South African Defence Force, Bantustan defence forces, IFP’s self-protection units and Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA), the military wing of the PAC.

Slovo, Joe

  • ZA-COM-00146
  • Person
  • 1926–1995
Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, intellectual, politician. Helped establish the Congress of Democrats (COD). Accused in the 1956 Treason Trial. Detained for six months during the 1960 State of Emergency. In exile from 1963 to 1990 and lived in the UK, Angola, Mozambique and Zambia. Was general secretary of the SACP, 1986 and chief of staff of MK. Participated in the multiparty negotiations to end white rule. Minister of housing in Mandela’s government from 1994. Awarded the ANC’s highest honour Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe in 1994.

Sachs, Albert Louis

  • ZA-COM-00150
  • Person
  • 1935–
Anti-apartheid activist, lawyer and judge. While in exile in Mozambique he lost an arm and sight in one eye when an apartheid agent placed a bomb in his car. Involved in developing the ANC’s approach to a democratic constitution. Member of the ANC’s Constitutional and National Executive Committees. Nelson Mandela appointed him to the Constitutional Court in 1994.

Harmel, Michael

  • ZA-COM-00159
  • Person
  • 1915–1974
Journalist, intellectual, trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist. Leading member of the SACP and editor of The African Communist. Member of MK. Assisted in the establishment of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). Co-founder of the COD. Continuously banned. The SACP asked him to go into exile in 1962, where he played a prominent role in the SACP, ANC and MK.

Mashifane, Thomas

  • ZA-COM-00160
  • Person

Thomas Mashifane was employed at Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia in the early 1960s. His son, Joseph Mashifane, was also employed at Liliesleaf. Both men were witnesses for the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial.

Mashifane, Joseph

  • ZA-COM-00161
  • Person

Joseph Mashifane was employed as an agricultural worker at Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia from March 1962-July 1963. His father, Thomas Mashifane, was also employed at Liliesleaf. Both men were witnesses for the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial.

Jantjies, Alfred

  • ZA-COM-00166
  • Person
  • ca. 1963-?

Alfred Jantjies attended a guerrilla warfare training camp in Ethiopia in 1962, and testified for the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial.

Suliman, Essop Amod

  • ZA-COM-00167
  • Person

Essop Suliman operated a pirate taxi in Johannesburg in the 1960s. He testified for the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial that he had transported ANC conference attendees and soldier trainees to the Botswana border in 1962-1963.

Nokwe, Duma

  • ZA-COM-00169
  • Person
  • 1927–1978
Lawyer and political activist. Member of the ANCYL. Leading member of the ANC. Secretary of the ANCYL, 1953–58. Participated in the Defiance Campaign. Prevented from teaching, he studied law and became the first black lawyer to be admitted to the Transvaal Supreme Court. However he could not practise as he was an accused in the 1956–61 Treason Trial. He was elected secretary general at the ANC’s annual conference in 1958, a post he held until 1969. He was ordered by the ANC to flee into exile, and he left the country in 1963 with Moses Kotane. He helped establish the ANC in exile, lobbying at many international forums.

Bambani, Harry

  • ZA-COM-00173
  • Person

Harry Bambani was a prosecution witness at the Rivonia Trial. He testified that he had been recruited as a military trainee, and was arrested while en route to a training camp in Tanzania.

Coetzee, Piet Adam

  • ZA-COM-00176
  • Person

Piet Coetzee was employed by Essop Suliman as a pirate taxi driver in Johannesburg in the 1960s. Both men testified for the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial about transporting passengers to the Botswana border.

Rani, Isaac

  • ZA-COM-00179
  • Person
  • ca. 1926 - ?

Isaac Rani attended a guerrilla warfare training camp in Ethiopia in 1962, and testified for the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial.

Davids, Cyril Kenneth

  • ZA-COM-00180
  • Person

Cyril Davids was a labourer who worked with electrical equipment in the Cape Town area in the early 1960s. He testified at the Rivonia Trial that he had attended a guerrilla warfare training camp in December 1962.
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