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October 22, 1927

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1927Allan Hendrickse, South African minister and politician (died 2005)[†]

Helenard Joe Hendrickse, popularly known as Allan Hendrickse, was a South African politician, Congregationalist minister and teacher. He was a founder of the 1969–1994 Labour Party of South Africa and a leader of the South African House of Representatives, and he participated in an act of defiance by swimming at a South African beach reserved for Whites only.