Biography Index

Chief of the Mpondos

ANC political activist and civic leader 

Soldier, Psychiatrist, Rebel, father, freedom fighter, decorated soldier, Philosopher and Author of mind provoking books such as ‘The Wretch of the Earth’, A Dying Colonialism’, Black Skin, White Mask’ and ‘Toward the African Revolution

South African pop singer

clergyman and Author

Afrikaans dramatist, actress, producer and elocutionist

Political activist

member of the ANCYL and later the PAC

Member of ANC, MK, PEBCO and the UDF

Member of SACPO, MK Cadre, Author and part of the Wankie Campaign.

Classical scholar, author, advocate, Town Clerk of Johannesburg, legal adviser to the British High Commissioner in South Africa, member of the Transvaal Legislative Council, member of the Unionist Party and the South African Party, judge in the Transva

Political Activist

banished person

Artist

Newspaper publisher and ANC member

Artist

Poet, writer, performance artist, activist, founder member of Bush Poets, the Afrikaans Writers Association (Afrikaanse Skrywersvereniging), and Women in X-chains, member of the Women’s Education and Artistic Voice Expression (WEAVE), played an instrumental role in the repatriation of Sarah Baartman’s remains from France to South Africa, recipient of the Minister’s Award for Women

A Medical Doctor. A member of the African National Congress and Umkhonto we Sizwe.

A Medical Doctor. A member of the COD and Umkhonto we Sizwe.

A member of South African Congress of Democrats, Communist Party of South Africa and The Anti-Apartheid Movement

trade unionist, politcal detainee, banned person, banished to Transkei

Artist

Farmer; President of Rhodesian Tobacco Association; army serviceman in the Second World War; Member of Parliament for the Dominion Party; Founder member of the Rhodesian Front (FR); the seventh white Rhodesian Prime Minister. 

Banned person, Robben Island prisoner, Member of Parliament, Executive and Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay M

Singer and educationist

A gay rights activist and a member of OLGA and the UDF

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa

Member of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Author.

A member of the South African Communist Party

A member of the South African Communist Party

Lawyer and Chairman of the SACP

Political activist, member of the South African Communist Party and the Federation of South African Women.

South African football player

A member of the African National Congress

first woman trade unionist, first woman printer and first woman city councillor.

Author

Snake venom specialist

A social worker

Worked in the Guardian news paper

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa

Popular South African actor

Lawrence Folley had a long and distinguished career on the stage, appearing in opera, operetta, musicals and concert platforms around the world.  He won the Nederburg Opera prize five times and the coveted Artes Award.  Folley was voted South

Teacher, headmaster, community activist and Boy Scout leader. For his outstanding leadership in education and contribution to community service and the Boy Scout Movement of South Africa, Reginald Dudley Forde was awarded the Order of the Baobab in Bro

journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP

Scout and dispatch rider during the South African War.

Boxer

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

franck was a self-taught artist.

Artist

First female Ophthamologist in South Africa

An active trade unionist and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), she received military training in Angola and the Soviet Union and was exiled in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola. She has recently held the position of Minister of Public Service and Administration.
 

Witwatersrand University SRC member, political detainee, cartoonist, architect, university lecturer, member of the ANC, participant at CODESA, Senior Manager (Philately) at the South African Post Office, member of the board of South African History Onl

Actress and teacher

Labour activist, academic and newspaper columnist

South African playwright, actor, and novelist world famous for his cutting portrayal of apartheid

Member of the African National Congress (ANC)