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Frederick John Harris (4 July 1937 – 1 April 1965) was a South African schoolteacher and anti-apartheid campaigner who turned to terrorism and was executed after a bomb attack on a railway station. He was Chairman of SANROC (the South African Non Racial Olympic Committee), which in 1964 petitioned the International Olympic Committee to have ...
In 1983, Company Sergeant-Major Trevor ("Porky") Wright was awarded the Honoris Crux after he distinguished himself when his isolated company base in north-western South-West Africa was attacked by heavily armed guerilla fighters. Wright personally firing a machine gun from the hip at one point and supervised ammunition replenishment throughout ...
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu (10 July 1956 – 6 April 1979) was a South African freedom fighter, struggle activist and operative of the African National Congress (ANC) militant wing, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). He was convicted for his part in the murder of two people and hanged in 1979.
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) – South African statesman, leader in the anti-apartheid movement and post-apartheid reconciliation, founder of The Elders, inspiration; Rosa Manus (1881–1942) – Dutch pacifist and suffragist; Bob Marley (1945–1981) – Jamaican, inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, inspiration
Before the apartheid system ended in South Africa in 1994, many activists left the country to receive military training elsewhere with the aim of returning home to wage an armed struggle. Others left the country to avoid being arrested by the apartheid regime for their involvement in anti-apartheid activities, and chose Zimbabwe and Zambia ...
A group of individuals classified as white under the Population Registration Act, 1950 by successive ruling administrations of South Africa during the apartheid period (1948-1994), who held views that made them publicly oppose apartheid informally as citizen activists or as members of anti-apartheid organisations like the ANC.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:South African anti-apartheid activists. It includes South African anti-apartheid activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.