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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.
Our men are armed and trained freedom fighters not "terrorists". We are fighting for democracy—majority rule—the right of the Africans to rule Africa. We are fighting for a South Africa in which there will be peace and harmony and equal rights for all people. We are not racialists, as the white oppressors are.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
In 2010 he published his autobiography, The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa (a new edition was published in 2016). [44] In his later years, Goldberg was a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. He viewed Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as being akin to apartheid-era South Africa. [45]