Biography Index

Sub-editor,members of the ANC and SACP, charged with Terrorism and Internal Security Act and was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in Pretoria Local Prison

President of the Transvaal African Students' Association and member of the ANC   Youth League, he helped both to draw up the League's constitution, Vice-President of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association, joined the PAC, Secretary

President of BPC, and Transvaal Vice – President of AZAPO

Robben Island prisoner, exile person, Chairperson, Southern Natal Region of the ANC, member of the SACP and MK , Secretary of the Interim Lea

Political activist, member of the CPSA and the ANC, founder of the African Mineworkers' Union, later became the Chairman of the PAC branch in Evaton, chief PAC representative in Dar-es-Salaam and Assistant PAC representative in Zambia

International soccer player

Editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.

Activist, trade unionist, member of the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union (CWIU) and Vice President of the FOSATU.

frader, collector of oriental art

An artist, the former Chairman of the House of Delegates Tricameral parliamentary chamber for Indian people, Minister without Portfolio and leader of the Minority Front.

Photographer, Afrapix Member

Minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dube township, member of the Progressive Party Provincial Executive Committee in the Transvaal, chairman of the opposition 

Artist

Banished person

Chairman of the Student Christian Movement, member of SASO and BPC, former Secretary-General of the ANC, first secretary National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), chairman of the National Reception committee, which co-ordinated arrangeme. Ramaphosa was elected unopposed as President of South Africa by the National Assembly on 15 February 2018.

Banished person

Political activist, Lawyer, head of the Regional Politico-Military Committee (RPMC) of the ANC in Zimbabwe, former Premier

Anti-apartheid activist, feminist, member of SASO, the BCM, the BPC, and AZAPO, banned for three years

President of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the then ‘non-European’ SRC at Natal University,  banned person, Treasurer of the United Democratic Front former National Vice President of the Congress of South African Writers and Author

President of the Medical Students Representative Council at University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), member of uMkhonto weSizwe and the African National Congress, a founding member of the United Democratic Front, involved in MK Operation Butterfly, political prisoner, member of the Central Political Education Committee on Robben Island, Medical Commander for the President Mandela Guard, Deputy Chief of MK Health Service, Surgeon General of the SANDF  

Provincial President of the Transvaal ANC, organiser of the National Anti-Pass campaign, member of the ANC's Council of Action, charged with planning the implementation of the Programme of Action

banished person

Banished person

Banished person.

banned person, political prisoner, Member of SASO, BPC and BCP, medical doctor, academic, anthropologist, Vice Chancellor of UCT, Managing Director at the World Bank, Director of Companies, Business woman, author

Bookkeeper, business person, political prisoner

photographer, photojournalist

Banished person.

Trade unionist and shop steward for the Garment Workers’ Union, elected to the Transvaal executive of the African National Congress Women's League in 1954, and in 1955 became the League’s national secretary. She was also on the executi

Banished person

Teacher, Assistant to the Rector of the University of the Western Cape, Provincial Secretary of the (UDF), National Secretary of the Call of Islam, Provincial Treasurer of the ANC and Member of the Executive Council of Western Cape Legislature

Singer

fgent-General 1938-1941.

An Anglican Bishop

Journalist, Advocate, President of the Orange Free State Appeal Court. President of the Orange Free State

Nurse, Member of the ANC and office-bearer, National Executive Committee member of the Federation of South African Women, organizer of protest marches, General Secretary of the All-Africa Women's Conference, and Deputy Chairperson of the Women's League

Journalist and sports editor, member of the ANCYL and the ANC National Executive, Treason trialist, exiled person.

Member of the ANC and office-bearer, National Executive Committee member of the Federation of South African Women, organizer of protest marches, General Secretary of the All-Africa Women's Conference, and Deputy Chairperson of the Women's League London branch.

A British Businessman in South Africa, Member of Parliament in the Cape Colony, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, imperialist, acquired a British Royal Charter, formed the British South African Company (BSAC) that colonized Zimbabwe.

Former South African Test and One Day International cricketer

Author and key player in the 1978-79 Information Scandal

Community worker. 

Medical doctor.

Former South African cricket captain

Internationally acclaimed cricketer

South African author, writer for Drum magazine in the 1950s, literary critic and teacher

School teacher and Honorary Life President of the Black Sash. 

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Detained in 1964.

Cartoonist

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) and the South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

Painter

Advocate, Politician 

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)and the Springbok Legion

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Springbok Legion.

Academic

Botanist, founder member of the Young Communist League, member of the CPSA,editor of Umsebenzi, the Communist Party weekly, later a member of the Liberal Party

Artist and Lecturer 

SA landscape painter

Barrister - member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congress

South African artist, teacher, jazz musician and architect

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Detained in 1964.

Minister of the Congregational Church, President of the South African Native Convention, he led a deputation to London to protest the Native Land Act of 1913, first African ever to be elected to serve as a member of the Cape Provincial Council, Vice-President of the ANC,teacher, writer.

Entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist

Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the University of Cape Town, and then studied for a Masters Degree at Oxford University. He trained for the priesthood at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, England, and later obtained his PhD in Religious Studies (specialising in Christian Ethics) from the University of Cape Town. In 1965 he was ordained as the 12th Bishop of Grahamstown.

Passive resister, political prisoner, President of the Natal Indian Congress, Vice President of the Transvaal Indian Congress and member of Council of the South African Indian Congress.