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Miriam Makeba
(2018)
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Miriam Makeba, or ‘Mama Africa’, combined jazz and traditional African song to create her unique sound.
Through her work she advocated against apartheid.
Makeba was born to a domestic worker and ...
Fighting for Freedom
(2018)
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Mlungisi Griffiths Mxenge was a member of the African National Congress from the mid-1950s. He obtained an LLB degree and became a well-known civil rights lawyer who defended victims of the apartheid ...
Breytenbach
(2018)
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Breyten Breytenbach is an Afrikaans poet, writer, painter and activist. He was born in 1939 in Bonnievale, Western Cape. As a student at the University of Cape Town, he became aware of the racist ...
The Stompie Seipei Sage
(2018)
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James Seipei was born in 1974. At age 10, he had already made a name for himself as one of South Africa’s youngest political activists against the apartheid system. Known as Stompie Moeketsi or ...
Keorapetse William Kgositsile
(2018)
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Keorapetse Kgositsile, also known as Bra Willie, was an anti-apartheid activist as well as a writer and prolific poet. Born in Johannesburg, he started writing as a hobby and eventually wrote for ...