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Dear Sir bids farewell to Pritz
The surviving cast and helpers involved in the 1981 Dear Sir production at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College will fondly remember the contribution of Pritz Dullay who died in Denmark on February 27.
A personal tribute to Ray Louw
June 17, 2019
Farewell to Ray Louw, a truly good man and great journalist whose tireless campaigns for freedom of expression should continue to inspire all media workers who remain dedicated to being the honest eyes and ears of the public at large and who continue to publish without fear or favour.
Death of a largely unsung heroine
December 9, 2016
Myrtle Berman, anti-apartheid activist, librarian, political prisoner, hunger striker, international management consultant and lifelong socialist, died peacefully in her apartment in Cape Town on December 8. She was 92 and did not recover consciousness following a stroke on November 25.
Obituary
November 5, 2016
The funeral of Lionel Morrison, journalist, trade unionist, social activist and the youngest accused, at age 21, in South Africa’s historic, four-year treason trial will be held in London in two weeks.
Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan 1920 – 2016
July 18, 2016
One of South Africa’s great — and largely unsung — fighters against apartheid and for women’s rights died yesterday in a hospice in Taylor in the US state of Michigan. Phyllis Priscilla Ntantala-Jordan was 96. An activist, polemicist, author and academic, she tended for much of her life to be described as “Mr A. C. […]
Obituary: Ann Harris Wolfe 1938 – 2016
April 14, 2016
Ann Harris, a fighter for justice, is dead. The widow of the only "white" political opponent of apartheid to be hanged, she died in her Wakelyns Farm home in Suffolk, England on April 11.
Farewell to an unassuming hero
March 27, 2011
Henry Gordon — ‘Squire’ — Makgothi 1928 – 2011 One of the most humble of a fighting generation of ANC leaders died this week (on 24/03/2011). Henry Gordon — “Squire” — Makgothi, teacher, defiance campaigner and treason trialist was perhaps the most unassuming of the leading figures in the liberation movement. Loyal, often to a […]
Farewell to an anti-apartheid battler
December 17, 2010
Tom Newnham, the man who probably did more than any other single individual in New Zealand to break rugby and other sporting ties with apartheid South Africa, died in Auckland this week, aged 84. And educator, editor, publisher, author and activist, he was the driving force behind the Citizens’ Association for Racial Equality (CARE) that, […]
Terry Bell Writes 
March 7, 2020
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