Biography Index

Trade unionist, President of Brazil, for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of the agenda of the South and for the creation of a just and equitable system of global governance, awarded The Companions of OR Tambo in Gold. 

anti-Apartheid activist.

Medical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social Reform Society, Chair of the Madressa Anjuman Islamia of the Kholvad Mosque, Vice-chair of the National Anti-Pass Council, President of the TIC, Chair of the TIC

Paramount Chief of the Thembu people

Trade unionist, member of SACTU

Trade Unionist

Member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LP), the African Resistance Movement (ARM) and Robben Island political prisoner.   

A victim of June 16th. 

DJ; music producer; TV and radio presenter; Director of Community and Youth Development for NPC, GCAP/SR4A; precision drifting and stunt car driver

Discovered the Taung child skull fossil, the first early hominid fossil.

World's first successful human heart-transplant donor

Community activist, anti-apartheid activist, founding member of the UDF, first president of the Uitenhage Women’s Organisation, chairperson of the ANCWL

Artist and ex Robben Island political prisoner

South African photographer and photojournalist

business person and philanthropist, assisted in establishing Howard College, responsible for starting the South African Navy, established the Howard Davis War Fund to assist soldiers who had served outside South Africa during the Second World War

teacher, business person, supporter of women’s causes, established the Peter Davis Infants’ Home, President of the Pietermaritzburg Benevolent Society, President of the South African War Graves Board, founding member of the South African Na

Vice president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and ANC, Community activist.

Political and women's activist and trade unionist

Campaigner for Indian rights

Medical doctor, politician and leader of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) and chairman of Anglo-American mining company, ambassador to Netherlands

Member of the ‘Upington 14', political prisoner

Dutch actor and producer in the Netherlands, Dutch East Indies and South Africa.

A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM) and the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)

Artist and underground ANC activist

teacher, member of the National Party and Minister of Education, Art & Science, Senator and Father of former Pres. F.W. de Klerk

Freed enslaved woman, wife of Olof Bergh, owner of Groote Constantia.

Known as Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Second Boer War.

Politician, former member of PAC, trade unionist, founder and a leader of Independent Democrats (ID) and Mayor of Cape Town.

Lawyer, Batavian governor and founder of Uitenhage, Eastern Cape.

Author, educator and first female principal of Huguenot University College

Member of the National Party, SA rugby captain, lecturer, reverend, ambassador to London and cabinet minister

Cricket player and commentator

Dominee, poet, author and editor

Photographer and activist, member of Afrapix

Flemish pioneer of Afrikaans theatre.

A great Boer general and rebel leader. His name is inextricably woven into the epic struggle of Afrikaners for independence from British rule in South Africa.

Judge in the 1963-1964 Rivonia Trail

Artist

Trade union activist and politician

Philosopher and Lecturer.

South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner

Political activist, Vice President of SACPO, journalist, lawyer and member of the PAC

figh Commissioner 1945 - 1946.

Artist

Banished person

Member for Umbumbulu, KwaZulu Legislative Assembly, Minister of Education and Culture, KwaZulu, Secretary General, Inkatha yeNkululeko yeSizwe, Executive Chairman, Institute for Multi-Party Democracy.

Political activist, academic, journalist, playwright, poet

Artist (printmaker), art administrator and activist 

Political activist and member of the ANC

Community activist, MK member, Member of Parliament, for his excellent contribution to the struggle against apartheid and for his selfless sacrifice for the attainment of freedom for all in South Africa was awarded The Order of Luthuli in Silver.

Portuguese navigator discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 and maritime explorer

Member of the ANC

Member of the Textile Workers Union, member of the Black Sash, and anti-apartheid activist and communist proponent.

President of NUSAS, founder member of the Liberal Party, Chancellor of UDW, Judge of the Natal Provincial Division, member of the Special Electoral Court,  Judge in the Constitutional Court, visiting scholar at the Law School of Columbia Universit

Women’s rights activist, trade unionist, shop steward, founder member of the Federation of South African Women, member of the South African Communist Party, one of the 1956 women’s march leaders, recipient of the Government’s National Order for advancing democracy in the country

Youth Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA), Black Consciousness Movement activist and member of AZANLA, Member of the Central Committee of the NACTU and President of AZAPO

 
Political activist, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, exiled person, active in the ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement and International Defence and Aid Fund.

Political activist, secretary of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, member of the Communist Party of South Africa, active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, political prisoner, exiled person, active in the ANC, worked for the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the Middle East, Greece and Botswana- while in exile, advocate of solar energy for informal settlements, worked in local governance Post-Apartheid, active in the ANC Kagiso and Azaadville branch, Town Clerk of Krugersdorp municipality, advocate for gender equity through academia. 

Member of the ANC, SACP and MK, author and columnist

Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa

King of the Zulu.

Zulu Princess, musician and poet who contributed to the development of traditional music in South Africa and was an authority on Zulu traditions, history and folklore. Her son is Inkatha Freedom Party leader, Chief Mangosuthu

First Premier of the Northern Cape Province

Artist

Member of the ANC and MK, Member of Parliament and Special Adviser to the Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities

Trade unionist, Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union, 1956 Treason Trialist, President of SACTU, Robben Island prisoner, Member of the ANC’s National Executive Council and its Revolutionary Council and recipient of the Order of

Trade Unionist.

MK struggle veteran, member of the ANC and Brigadier General in the SANDF.

trade unionist and president of COSATU

ANC member, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Health, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chair of the African Union

Member of the ANC and MK, political prisoner, National Chairperson MKVA and former advisor to the Minister of Defence.

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat, AKM or “Doc” as he was popularly known, was one of the leading political activists in the Natal Indian Congress and Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA).

Political Activist and a Baptist Church Minister.

British  general, colonel and Governor at the Cape

Politcal activist, member of ANC Women's League

Assistant General Secretary of TUCSA, chairman of the Urban Training Project, university lecturer and banned person.

Priest at the St. Joseph’s Mission, which became a place of refuge for activists in the Boputhatswana Homeland in the 1980s, current Bishop of Rustenburg.

Artist

President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), political detainee, educator, poet and writer.

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Banned by the apartheid government.

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa

Teacher,  MP for Florida, 1974; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Education and Training, 1983-84; Minister of Finance, 1984-1992.

Photographer

A member of the South African Communist Party

Author

Trade unionist

Elocutionist and journalist

 South African musical artist and was attributed as one of the world's greatest reggae superstars

Educator, politician, author, minister of the Congregational (American Board) Church, founder member and first president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC).

Musician, founder member of the Daughters of Africa and wife of John Langalibalele Dube. 

Daughter of African National Congress (ANC) Founder, John Langalibalele Dube 

Teacher, member of the Anti-CAD Movement and the Non European Unity Movement (NEUM) and President of the New Unity Movement.

A member of the End Conscription Campaign, also part of the University of Cape Town SRC

Author, Screenwriter and Editor

Artist

Artist

Took part in the Defiance Campaign, national organiser of the Liberal Party and member of the PAC

Teacher, politcal activist and leader of the women's organisation Black Sash.

Barrister and First South African Governor-General

Court Interpreter, teacher, editor and ANC member

Singer and songwriter

Church Leader

Musician 

English test cricketer who was banned from playing in South Africa, awarded the Companion of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen of England.