Biography Index
| Last name | First name | Synopsis | Date of birth | Date of death | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habase | Andile | 26-November-1992 | |||
 | Hadebe | James | Teacher and political activist. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) Hadebe served as Transvaal Provincial Secretary of the ANC during the 1950s. An accused in the Treason Trial, Hadebe left South Africa to serve as an ANC representative internationally during his exile. | 29 October 1923 | |
| Hadebe | Mandlenkosi | ||||
 | Hadebe | Reggie | 27 October 1992 | ||
| Hadi | Gordon | ||||
| Hadjie | Dawood | ||||
| Hadjie | Mohammed | ||||
 | Haffejee | Hoosen | Political activist, dentist and political detainee. | 06-November-1950 | 03-August-1977 |
 | Hain | Peter | 16-February-1950 | ||
| Hain | Walter | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) | ||
 | Hain | Adelaine | Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist | 16 February 1927 | 8 September 2019 |
| Haita | Solomon | ||||
| Haita | Yustus | ||||
| Hajaig | Fatima | ||||
 | Hall | Eve | Anti-apartheid activist, COD and ANC member, journalist, launched the ANC women section’s first bulletin- Voice of Women, one of the first White women to be jailed for opposing apartheid, banned | 20 March 1937 | 2007 |
 | Hall-Xuma | Madie | Headed the African National Congress Women's League, fund raiser for the ANC, founder of the popular Zenzele self-help movement, president of the national council of the South African Young Women's Christian Association | 1894 | 10-September-1982 |
 | Hallett | George | Documentary Photographer, Designer, Lecturer | 1942 | 1 July 2020 |
| Haluteni | Abel | |||
| Hamakwayo | James | 09-October-1966 | |||
| Hamateni | Nathanoel | ||||
| Hamilton | Cele | |||
| Hamilton | Weizman | |||
| Hamlet | Siphiwe | (approx 1988) | ||
| Hamlyn | Michael | Botswana raid by SANDF | ||
 | Hammarskjöld | Dag Hjalmar | Former United Nations Secretary General | 29 July 1905 | |
| Hamulemo | Simeon | ||||
| Hamulemo | Simeon | |||
| Hanabe | Simon | |||
| Handler | James | Part of the End Conscription Campaign and SAUJS | ||
 | Hanekom | Hendrik | Afrikaans theatrical pioneer and actor | 17-June-1893 | 14-January-1952 |
 | Hanekom | Derek | A member of the African National Congress, was involved in intelligence. | 13-January-1953 | |
| Hanekom | Patricia | ||||
| Hanfinu | Nghidipo | |||
| Hanghwo | Kristoff | ||||
| Hanghwo | Kristoff | |||
 | Hani | Thembisile | Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe and General-Secretary of the SACP. | 28-June-1942 | 10-April-1993 |
 | Hani | Gilbert | A member of the ANC and banished person | ||
| Hanise | Vuyisile | ||||
| Hanise | Vuyisile | |||
| Hans | Nicolas | 1941 | 30 May 1967 | |
| Hansie | Vuyisile | ||||
| Harber | Eric | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)and SANROC. | ||
| Harber | Anton | A Journolist | ||
 | Harmel | Michael | Intellectual and revolutionary. Member of the SACP and MK’s High Command. | 07-February-1915 | 18-June-1974 |
 | Harmel | Barbara | |||
| Harmel | Ray | A member of the CPSA and the ANC. | ||
| Harmel (nee Adler) | Ray | Revolutionary, trade unionist and SACP member | 1905 | |
| Harold | Matsididi | |||
 | Haron | Abdullah | Muslim cleric, killed in police detention | 08-February-1924 | 27-September-1969 |
| Harrington | Bikitsha | |||
| Harrington | Mpondwana | |||
 | Harris | Frederick | Teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee. | 04-July-1937 | 01-April-1965 |
| Harris | Ronald | 16-September-1976 | |||
| Harris | Mkalipi | |||
| Harrison | Wilfred | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa | ||
| Harry | Loggenberg | |||
| Harry | Mathebe | |||
 | Hart | Maxine | A member of the African National Congress, also detained but given a suspended sentence. | ||
 | Hartman | David | Documentary photographer and member of Afrapix photographic collective | 1961 | |
| Hartwell | Dulcie | |||
 | Hartzenberg | Randolph | 1948 | ||
 | Hashe | Viola | Labour activist, first women leader of SACWU and vice-president of SACTU | 1926 | 1977 |
| Hashe | Govan | |||
| Hashe | Sipho | Brutaly murdered by Police | ||
| Hashe | Joseph | |||
| Hashe | Wilson | |||
 | Hashe | Sipho | Member of ANC, MK and PEBCO, Robben Island prisoner, General Secretary of PEBCO, member of UDF, one of the ‘PEBCO Three’ | 1934 | May 1985 |
 | Hassan | Kay | Artist | 1956 | |
 | Hassim | Abdool | Lawyer, freedom fighter, founding member of APDUSA and Robben Island prisoner | 10-November-1934 | 10-November-2011 |
 | Hassim | Enver | Lawyer, member of the Non European Unity Movement, Progressive Forum, the Coloured Peoples Congress, Africa Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), and the Society of Young Africa | 11/28/1995 | |
| Hassim | Goolam | |||
| Hassim | Kader | |||
 | Hathorn | Michael | Medical doctor and political activist, detained in Durban without trial in 1960 and moved to London in 1965 | 1922 | |
 | Hattingh | Marthinus | Photograher. | 03- August-1964 | |
| Haufiku | Nghidipo | ||||
| Hayes | Stephen | |||
| Hazell | Amy Beatrice | frtist | 1864 | 1946 |
 | Head | Bessie | Teacher, author and journalist | 06-July-1937 | 17-April-1986 |
| Head | Harold | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government. | ||
| Headman | Sikisana | |||
 | Heard | George | Political journalist | 1906 | |
| Hector | Mnikina | |||
| Heleni | Tembisile | |||
| Heleni | Thozamile | |||
 | Hellman | Ellen | Social anthropologist, academic, member of the SAIRR and the Progressive Party | 25 August 1908 | 06-November-1982 |
| Helm | Charles | Missionary of London Missionary Society; Spent years doing missionary work at Hope Fountain, Bulawayo; King Lobengula’s interpreter and adviser, thought to be the man behind the origins of the Rhodesian Ridgeback dog. | ||
| Hempe | Ngcola | ||||
 | Hemson | David | Lawyer, trade union and labour activist. | 18 July 1945 | |
| Henda | Agrippus | |||
| Hendrick | Molefe | |||
 | Hendricks | Bobby | Saxophone player known as the “King of Langarm”, a popular form of South African Coloured dance music | 07-February-1936 | 07-March-1999 |
| Hendricks | Gordon | ||||
| Hendricks | Hanana | |||
| Hendricks | Ronald | |||
| Hendricks | Titus | ||||
 | Hendrickse | Helenard | Politician and former Labour Party leader | 22-October-1927 | 16-March-2005 |
| Hendrik | Plaatjies | |||
| Hendriks | Gordon | |||
| Hengula | Ruben | ||||
| Hengula | Ruben | |||
| Henne | Zingisile | 18-April-1991 | |||
| Henry | Baartman | |||
| Henry | Conjwa | |||
| Henry | Fazzie | |||
 | Hepple | Alex | Trade unionist, socialist, member of the anti-fascist movement, Member of the Transvaal Provincial Parliament, founder and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South African Defence and Aid Fund, writer and author. | 28-August-1904 | 16-November-1983 |
 | Hepple | Bob | Revonia Trialist and Lawyer | 11-August-1934 | 21-August-2015 |
| Hepple | Meriam | |||
| Herbert | Bhoya | |||
| Herbert | Jakavula | |||
| Herbert | Ndzongeni | |||
 | Herbstein | Moritz | South African writer, engineer and anti-apartheid activist | 10-March-1936 | |
| Hermanus | Jim | ||||
 | Hertzog | James | Lawyer, judge and South African Prime Minister | 6 April 1866 | 21 November 1942 |
 | Hewitt | Rob Anthony John (Bob) | fhampion SA Tennis player | 12 January 1940 | |
| Hewu | Plaatjie | ||||
| Hewukile | Andile | ||||
 | Heyman | Anne | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of Democrats (COD) | 16-June-1961 | 31-January-2014 |
| Heyman | Isaac | |||
| Heyman | Issie | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) | ||
| Heymann | Issy | A member of South African Communist Party (SACP), executive member of the Native Trade Assistance Union, the Jewish Workers Club, Springbok Legion and the Congress of Democrats, South Africa's first 180 day prisoner, political prisoner | 24 December 1910 | 1989 |
| Heynes | Edward | |||
 | Heyns | Penny | South African swimmer | 8 November 1974 | |
| Higgs | Denis | A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM). | ||
| Hill | Jean | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government. | ||
| Hill | Ken | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government. | ||
 | Hilton-Barber | Steve | Photographer, member of Afrapix. | 1962 | 23-May-2002 |
| Hina | Sipho | ||||
| Hina | Nosiza | |||
| Hina | Sipo | |||
 | Hirson | Baruch | Historian, editor, member of the COD, NCL and ARM, a political activist, exiled person, physics lecturer | 10 December 1921 | 3 October 1999 |
| Hirson | Bertram | |||
 | Hishongwa | Ndeutala | Ndeutala Hishongwa is an author and scholar and was active in the liberation struggle through SWAPO. | ||
| Hitchins | Laura | |||
| Hjul | Peter | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government. | ||
| Hlale | Moses | ||||
| Hlale | Moses | |||
| Hlamandana | Vincent | Banished person. | ||
| Hlamandana | Mhlabuvelile | Banished person. | ||
| Hlamandane | Mhlabuvelile | |||
 | Hlanyane | Jeremiah | 21-March-1960 | ||
| Hlanyare | Sephiri | ||||
 | Hlapane | Bartholomew | Member of the ANC and SACP, state witness in many political trials | 24-August-1918 | 16-December-1982 |
| Hlapo | Johannes | ||||
| Hlati | Nkosinathi | ||||
| Hlatshqayo | Machocho | |||
| Hlatshwayo | Joyce | 26-December-1976 | |||
| Hlatshwayo | Cyprian | 11-November-1987 | |||
| Hlatshwayo | Nelco | ||||
| Hlatshwayo | Themba | ||||
| Hlatswayo | Hlatswayo | |||
| Hlatswayo | Joseph | |||
 | Hlatywayo | John | Artist | 1928 | |
| Hlekani | Gandi | 26-March-1968 | |||
| Hlekani | Stanford | ||||
| Hlekani | Stanford | ||||
| Hlekani | John | |||
| Hlekani | Stanford | |||
| Hlekiso | Julayi | 11 June 1992 | ||
| Hliso | Thozamile | |||
| Hlobo | Mziwoxolo | UNITA ambushes | 06-October-1988 | ||
 | Hlobo | Nicholas | artist | 01-January-1975 | |
| Hlobo | Wandile | 00/00/86 | ||
| Hlokwane | N.C. | 26-December-1976 | |||
| Hlomuka | Robert | December 1993 | ||
| Hlongwa | Christopher | ||||
| Hlongwa | Simon | |||
| Hlongwa | Siza | ||||
 | Hlongwana | David | artist, educator | 01-January-1963 | |
| Hlongwane | Johannes | 12-December-1976 | |||
| Hlongwane | Petros | 25-July-1976 | |||
| Hlongwane | B. | |||
| Hlongwane | Nelson | |||
| Hlongwane | Mhlupeki | Banished person. | 15 February 1961 | |
| Hlongwane | David | ||||
| Hlongwani | Vuyani | |||
| Hlongwe | Mcenjulwa | 1904 | 21 March 1962 | |
| Hlonyane | Esrom | |||
| Hloyi | Goliyati | ||||
| Hlphe | Joseph | |||
| Hlubi | Mark | |||
 | Hlungwane | Jackson | Artist | 1923 | 20-January-2010 |
| Hobe | Charles | |||
 | Hobhouse | Emily | British welfare campaigner who is primarily remembered for her work related to British concentration camps in South Africa. | 09-April-1860 | 08-June-1926 |
| Hobo | Titi | ||||
| Hobo | Titi | |||
| Hobulongwe | Headman | |||
 | Hodgins | Robert | South African painter | 27-June-1920 | 15-March-2010 |
 | Hodgkiss | John | Photographer | 25 September 1966 | 15 March 2012 |
 | Hodgson | Percy | Political activist, Member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) . | 17-August-1910 | 03-December-1977 |
 | Hodgson | Rica | A member of South African Congress of Democrats (COD), and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | 01-July-1920 | 11-January-2018 |
| Hodgson | Jach | |||
| Hodgson | Spenser | An architect | ||
 | Hodi | Franz | Artist | ||
 | Hoffenberg | Raymond | Medical specialist, professor, author, member of the Liberal Party, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the National Union of South African Students, Chairperson of the Defence and Aid Fund, banned person, exile, internationally renowned clinical endocr | 16 March 1923 | 22 April 2007 |
| Hoffsani | Chamusso | |||
| Hofmeyr | Jan | Afrikaner cultural activist | 1845 | 1909 |
 | Hofmeyr | William | 22 November 1954 | ||
 | Hogan | Barbara | Member of the ANC, Political prisoner, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. | 28-February-1952 | |
| Hoho | Qonda | 1956 | 11-November-1988 | ||
| Hoho | Acacia | ||||
| Hoho | Qondo | 00/00/88 | ||
| Hoko | Madoda | ||||
| Holiday | Billie | 11/11/88 | ||
| Holiday | Jinta | |||
| Holiday | Anthony | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and the African National Congress (ANC). Detained for seven years. | ||
| Holiday | Anthony | Journalist, imprisoned for underground politcal activities | ||
 | Holland | Heidi | Journalist and author | 06-October-1947 | 11-August-2012 |
| Holland | Dutch | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | ||
| Holland | Nita | A member of South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of Democrats (COD) | ||
 | Holland | Sarah | Awarded the Order of Mendi for Bravery in Silver for providing shelter to orphaned children and sacrificing her own life to save the lives of the children in her care. | 11 April 1952 | 9 February 2010 |
| Hollander | Oscar | Artist | 02-November-1864 | September-1977 |
| Holmes | Tim | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). | ||
 | Holo | Patrick | South African linocut artist and teacher | 09-February-1948 | |
 | Holomisa | Bantubonke (Bantu) | Major General (retired) of the Transkei Defence Force, Chairman of the Military Council of Transkei, leader of the Transkei delegation to CODESA, Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism of South Africa, co-founder of the United Democratic Movement ( | 25-July-1955 | |
 | Holomisa | Phathekile | Chief of the AmaGebe Tribe. Chair of the Joint Constitutional Review Committee. He is President of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa. Holomisa is a member of the Unitra Council in the Eastern Cape. | 16 August 1959 | |
| Homane | Sajini | ||||
| Honeyville | Sikweyiya | |||
| Honono | Nathaniel | Educator, businessman and political activist. member of AAC, CATA and TLSA | 21-October-1908 | 31-December-1986 |
| Hoogaardt | Spasiena | 09-September-1976 | |||
 | Hoogendyk | Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer | Member of the Springbok Legion and Congress of Democrats (CoD), accused in the Treason Trial of 1956. | 1911 | 12 February 1990 |
| Hoogendyk | Jan | |||
| Hoogendyk | Jacqueline | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) | ||
 | Hope | Rosa | Artist (print-making), Lecturer and member of the South African Society of Artists | 08-June-1902 | 07-May-1972 |
 | Horn | Pat | Trade unionist and interntiona co-ordinator of StreetNet | 1951 | |
 | Horn | Peter | 7 December 1934 | 23 July 2019 | |
 | Horvitch | Isaac Osier | Member of the CPSA, architect, 1956 Treason trialist | 1920 | |
 | Horvitch | Isaac "Ike" | Architect, anti-apartheid activist, member of the SACP, Treason trialist | 9 October 1920 | 28 December 2005 |
| Horvitch | Mitzi | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | ||
| Hoseham | Cere | |||
| Hosey | Sean | A member of the Young Communist League (YCL), based in the United Kingdom. | ||
| Hosia | Mokone | |||
 | Howa | Hassan | Prominent activist in the struggle against racial segregation in competitive sports during apartheid | 09-August-1922 | 12-February-1992 |
| Howard | Marawu | |||
 | Howes | Dulcie | Teacher and First South African Professional ballet dancer | 31-December-1908 | 19-March-1993 |
| Hoye | Pongoloshe | 09-May-1965 | ||
| Hoyi | Cekiso | |||
 | Hrusa | Jon | Award Winning Photographer, Photojournalist | 24 October 1965 | 19 December 2011 |
| Hubhuli | Gasuebe | |||
 | Huddleston | Trevor | Anglican priest, author, one of the first recipients of the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award, Chair of the Trustees of the International Defenc | 15 June 1913 | 20 April 1998 |
 | Huguenet | Andre | ffrikaans actor, producer, manager and writer. | 22 October 1906 | 15 June 1961 |
| Huna | Bernard | ||||
| Huna | Mathews | ||||
| Huna | Mathews | |||
| Huna | Bernard | |||
| Hunter | Roland | |||
| Hunter | Roland | ||||
 | Hurbans | Gopallal | Sugar farmer, Vice President of the NIC | 1915 | |
| Hurbert | Mnyani | |||
| Hurley | Dennis | A catholic Archbishop | ||
| Hurzuk | Abdurahman | |||
 | Huss | Bernhard Alexander CMM | Missionary and social reformer | 1876 | |
 | Hutchings | Mike | 1963 | ||
| Hutchinson | Alfred "Tough" | Teacher, author, 1956 Treason trialist, member of the ANC. | 1924 | 14-October-1972 | |
 | Hutton | Dean | Photographer, performance artist and activist | 03-May-1976 |