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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.
MK became interested in using ZIPRA's infiltration routes to smuggle supplies to its fighters in South Africa, and organised a joint expedition with the latter in August 1967. [90] A combined MK-ZIPRA force was largely eliminated by the Rhodesian Security Forces during Operation Nickel , and the survivors driven back across the border into ...
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.
South West Africa: Solomon Mahlangu [7] Umkhonto we Sizwe activist 6 April 1979 Pretoria South Africa: David Sibeko [8] Pan Africanist Congress activist 12 June 1979 Dar es Salaam Tanzania: Joe Gqabi [9] ANC activist 31 July 1981 Salisbury (now Harare) Zimbabwe: Griffiths Mxenge [10] ANC activist 19 November 1981 Umlazi South Africa: Neil ...
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.
In 2014, Daniels was asked to officiate at the annual Freedom Swim, as part of celebrations of 20 years of democracy in South Africa. The Freedom Swim, from Robben Island to Big Bay, had been struggling at the time, due to the difficult conditions and complicated nature of the event. Daniels' participation helped breathe new life into the event ...
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). Between terms as ANC Secretary-General (1949–1954) and ANC Deputy President (1991–1994), he was Accused No.2 in the Rivonia Trial and was incarcerated on Robben Island where he served more than 25 years' imprisonment for his anti-Apartheid ...
Banning was a repressive and extrajudicial measure [1] used by the South African apartheid regime (1948–1994) against its political opponents. [2] The legislative authority for banning orders was firstly the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950 , [ 3 ] which defined virtually all opposition to the ruling National Party as communism .