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Last name First name Synopsis Date of birth Date of death
Nxadi Faans portraitFaans Nxadi
Fadana Samson
Christopher Nceba Faku portraitFaku Christopher Nceba ANC political activist and civic leader  11 February 1956
Faku Christopher
Chief Paramount Faku portraitFaku Paramount Chief of the Mpondos 1780 29 October 1867
Chief Faku portraitFaku Chief
Essie Faku portraitFaku Essie
Mncidisi Faku portraitFaku Mncidisi
Faku Mncedisi
Feya Faku portraitFaku Feya

South African jazz trumpeter, 

 6 June 1962 23 June 2025
Bonakele Faleni portraitFaleni Bonakele
Nho Faleni portraitFaleni Nho 1929
Faltein Rodger 17-February-1986
Fana Simon
Mtila Ngwenza Fanayi portraitFanayi Mtila
Fani Ntsikelelo 12-November-1987
Fani Ben
Letsea Fani portraitFani Letsea
Mafi Joseph Faniso portraitFaniso Mafi
Tembile Felix Faniso portraitFaniso Tembile
Frantz Fanon portraitFanon Frantz 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 20-July-1925 06-December-1961
Fanti Wilson
Wilson Fanti portraitFanti Wilson
Mkonta Samuel Fanyane portraitFanyane Mkonta
Farland Ringo
Ringo Farland portraitFarland Ringo
Farrell Denis
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie portraitFassie Brenda South African pop singer 03-November-1964 09-May-2004
Haita Solomon Fastus portraitFastus Haita
Fata R
R Fata portraitFata R
Alexander Leor Fattal portraitFattal Alexander 1979
Livingstone Fatyela portraitFatyela Livingstone 1937 30 May 1967
Abraham Faure portraitFaure Abraham clergyman and Author 29 August 1795 28 March 1875
Hermione Stephanie Lombard Faure portraitFaure Hermione Afrikaans dramatist, actress, producer and elocutionist 09-October-1894 25-December-1961
Judith Shamith Favish portraitFavish Judith
Fawcett Millicent

Political activist

 11-June-1847 05-August-1929
Fazzie Cornelius member of the ANCYL and later the PAC 1924 1993
Fazzie Henry

Member of ANC, MK, PEBCO and the UDF

 03-January-1924 August 2011
Mzwandile Fazzie portraitFazzie Mzwandile
Basil Paul Petersen February portraitFebruary Basil Member of SACPO, MK Cadre, Author and part of the Wankie Campaign. 08-August-1943 15-August-1967
Richard Feetham portraitFeetham Richard 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 22 November 1874 5 November 1965
Mashwabata Alton Feketshana portraitFeketshana Mashwabata
Felesi Kholikile
Kholikile Felesi portraitFelesi Kholikile
Walter Sidney Felgate portraitFelgate Walter Sidney Political Activist 19-November-1930 08-January-2008
Felix 11-November-1986
Kubeka Felix portraitFelix Kubeka
Femela Ernest
Dumile Feni portraitFeni Dumile Artist 21 May 1942 16 October 1991
Feni David
Blackie Yameni Feni portraitFeni Blackie
Nikisi Feni portraitFeni Nikisi

banished person

Feni Yamani 1930
Walton Zacharias Fenyang portraitFenyang Walton Newspaper publisher and ANC member 1877 1957
Emily Isabel Fern portraitFern Emily Artist 1818 1953
Diana Ferrus portraitFerrus Diana

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

 29 August 1953
John Marinus Ferus portraitFerus John (Hennie) 8 February 1940 1981
Dr. Hillard Festenstein portraitFestenstein Hillard A Medical Doctor. A member of the African National Congress and Umkhonto we Sizwe.
Dr. Hilliard Festenstein portraitFestenstein Hilliard A Medical Doctor. A member of the COD and Umkhonto we Sizwe.
Iris Festenstein portraitFestenstein Iris A member of South African Congress of Democrats, Communist Party of South Africa and The Anti-Apartheid Movement
H. Festinstein portraitFestinstein H.
Haita Yustus Festus portraitFestus Haita
Phindile Fethi portraitFethi Phindile

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

Dangala Johannes Fezile portraitFezile Dangala
Fibi Linda
Theophilus Dymond Field portraitField Theophilus Artist 1871 1934
Winston Field portraitField Winston

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. 

Hina Sipho Fielden portraitFielden Hina
Nkosinathi Benson Fihla portraitFihla Nkosinathi

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

 13-June-1932
Mfukeni Fikile portraitFikile Mfukeni
Samuel Bonakele Filita portraitFilita Samuel
Finch Alfred 09-September-1976
Mary Eveline Fincken portraitFincken Mary Singer and educationist 27-April-1882 15-June-1955
Alan Fine portraitFine Alan
Derrick Fine portraitFine Derrick A gay rights activist and a member of OLGA and the UDF
Danny Fineberg portraitFineberg Danny
Anne Fineberg (nee Nicholson) portraitFineberg (nee Nicholson) Anne A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)
Fini Kokekile
Joseph Victor Finkelstein portraitFinkelstein Joseph
Ruth First portraitFirst Ruth Member of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Author. 04-May-1925 17-August-1982
First Julius
Julius First portraitFirst Julius Member of the Communist Party of South Africa
Tilly First portraitFirst Tilly
Ndawana Fisana portraitFisana Ndawana
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer portraitFischer Abram "Bram" Lawyer and Chairman of the SACP 23-April-1908 08 May 1975
Molly Fischer portraitFischer Molly Political activist, member of the South African Communist Party and the Federation of South African Women. 23-February-1908 13-June-1964
Ruth Fischer portraitFischer Ruth A member of the South African Communist Party
Ilse Fischer portraitFischer Ilse A member of the South African Communist Party
Fozia Fischer portraitFischer Fozia
Mark Fish portraitFish Mark South African football player 14-March-1974
Fish Edward 07-September-1976
Gustin Fish portraitFish Gustin
Fisher Ivy 12-August-1976
Mary Fitzgerald portraitFitzgerald Mary first woman trade unionist, first woman printer and first woman city councillor. 1882 1960
Patrick Fitzgerald portraitFitzgerald Patrick A member of the African National Congress
Percy Fitzpatrick portraitFitzpatrick Percy Author 24-July-1862 24-January-1931
Vivian Fitzsimons portraitFitzsimons Vivian

Snake venom specialist

 1901 1975
Kgotso Flatela portraitFlatela Kgotso
Eric Gordon Flegg portraitFlegg Eric
Hillary Flegg portraitFlegg Hillary A social worker
Norman Flegg portraitFlegg Norman Worked in the Guardian news paper
Mellville John Fletcher portraitFletcher Mellville
Jack Flior portraitFlior Jack A member of the Communist Party of South Africa
Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Floyd portraitFloyd Elizabeth
Bill Flynn portraitFlynn Bill Popular South African actor 13-December-1948 11-July-2007
Fokwana Enoch
Lawrence Folley portraitFolley Lawrence 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 06-December-1928 14-January-2007
Forbes Ashley
James Ford portraitFord James
Reginald Dudley Forde portraitForde Reginald

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

 20 April 1940
Lionel Forman portraitForman Lionel journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP 30-November-1926 02-October 1959
Sadie Forman portraitForman Sadie Anti-apartheid activist, women’s rights activist, member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), banned 1929 11 December 2014
Fortuin David
Fouche Tom Fothsho portraitFothsho Fouche
Jopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie portraitFourie Jopie (Josef Johannes) Scout and dispatch rider during the South African War. 1878 20 December 1914
Pierre Jacy Fourie portraitFourie Pierre Boxer 26-June-1943 21-June-1980
Joey Fourie portraitFourie Joey Trade unionist, organised workers in the catering trade, first secretary of the Waitress Union, secretary of the National Union of Distributive Workers in Cape Town, secretary of the South African Hairdressers’ Union, member of the Communist Party of South Africa, Woodstock City Council, banned 7 October 1962
Morule Kasinyane France portraitFrance Morule
Francis Jeremiah
Jude Francis portraitFrancis Jude
Michael Francis portraitFrancis Michael A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Banned by the apartheid government.
Francis Michael
Francis David
William Bruce Franck portraitFranck William Bruce franck was a self-taught artist. 1907 1970
Leo Rbc Francois portraitFrancois Leo Artist 1870 1938
Moneli Frank portraitFrank Moneli
Ngobo Frank portraitFrank Ngobo
John Gavin Frankish portraitFrankish John 1950 2011
Grysman Franklin portraitFranklin Grysman
Esther Franks portraitFranks Esther First female Ophthamologist in South Africa 17-May-1900
Frans Michael
Madiba Mathume Frans portraitFrans Madiba
Mothloaleng Frans portraitFrans Mothloaleng
Anthony Fransch portraitFransch Anthony 11/11/89
Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi portraitFraser-Moleketi Geraldine 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.   24-August-1960
Dyebi Fred portraitFred Dyebi
Leteane Fred portraitFred Leteane
Simon Freddie portraitFreddie Simon
Gqola Frederick portraitFrederick Gqola
Franco Frescura portraitFrescura Franco 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 28 September 1946
Wilhelmina Louisa Freund portraitFreund Wilhelmina Actress and teacher 17-March-1890 06-December-1938
Dickson Freyani portraitFreyani Dickson
Franklin Kaye Kendall Ariba Friba portraitFriba Franklin Kaye Kendall Ariba 1870
Helmut Julius Friedland portraitFriedland Helmut 1908
Steven Eli Friedman portraitFriedman Steven

Labour activist, academic and newspaper columnist

 31 March 1953
Fubesi Teku
Harold Athol Fugard portraitFugard Harold South African playwright, actor, and novelist world famous for his cutting portrayal of apartheid 11-June-1932
Arthur Nuthall Fula portraitFula Arthur Novelist, poet, first Black African Afrikaans author, court interpreter, recipient of the Government’s National Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze 16 May 1908 16 May 1966
Mangaliso Orlando Funani portraitFunani Mangaliso
Mathews Funani portraitFunani Mathews 21/07/88
Mfana Matthew Funani portraitFunani Mfana
David Fundanga portraitFundanga David
Kosemtu Jackson Fusa portraitFusa Kosemtu
D Fuyani portraitFuyani D Member of the African National Congress (ANC) 1924
Dixon Fuyani portraitFuyani Dixon
Mxolisi Jackson Fuzile portraitFuzile Mxolisi
Fuzili Jackson
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