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Cooper, Sathasivian

  • ZA-COM-04307
  • Person
  • 11 Dec 1950 -
Psychologist and anti-apartheid activist. Proponent of Black Consciousness. Secretary of the Black People’s Convention, 1972. Banned and restricted to the Durban magisterial district for five years in 1973. Convicted for assaulting a policeman during a strike in 1973. Sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1974 on Robben Island for helping to organise rallies that celebrated the victory of the Mozambican Liberation Movement. He was released on 20 December 1982. Elected vice-president of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) in 1983.

Naicker, Gangathura Mohambry

  • ZA-COM-06416
  • Person
  • 1910 – 1978
Leading member of South African Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Congress. In 1946, with Yusuf Dadoo, he led passive resistance campaigns among Indian South Africans to protest the Asiatic Land Tenure and the Indian Representation Act. As an early advocate of a multi-racial united front against apartheid he fostered an alliance with the ANC in 1947 known as the Dadoo-Xuma-Naicker Pact, or the Three Doctors' Pact. He was imprisoned several times for anti-apartheid activism.

Mohape, Mapetla

  • ZA-COM-08056
  • Person
  • 2 September 1947 - 5 August 1976
He was a member of black consciousness movement.

Hinchliff, Peter Bingham

  • ZA-COM-08058
  • Person
  • 25 February 1929 - 17 October 1995
South African Anglican priest and academic.
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