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Piliso Family Home

Piliso Home Blue Plaque - Heritage Portal - 2012
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The Piliso home is one of the original core houses built in Alex in the 1940s. It was the home of Topsy Piliso, an activist in the 1950s and founder of the Anti-TB Association.

Plaque Location:
Gauteng
Johannesburg
Alexandra
Plaque Address:

82 Third Avenue, Alexandra

Plaque Category:
Apartheid
Medical
People
Struggle Heritage
Plaque Organisation:
City of Johannesburg

Photographs of the Piliso Family Home (The Heritage Portal)

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