Biography Index

Teacher, lecturer, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF), founder member of the Lenasia Youth League and the Progressive Teachers' League. Served as a national vice-president of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union.

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Detained in 1961. Banned by the apartheid government
 

First female judge to be appointed permanently to the appellate division of the South African Supreme Court.

folitician and soldier.

Drama teacher.

Historian and lecturer

Principal of a teacher training school, one of the leaders of the Coloured "convention" movement, first president of the Labour Party of South Africa, assistant education planner in the Department of Coloured Affairs, first editor of the Cape Herald, Rector of the University of the Western Cape

Commander of the Cape (1679-1691)
First Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (1691-1699)

City Councilor, MP and Peace Mediator who played a leading role in peace mediation efforts as Burundian peace facilitator.

A member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)

Poet, novelist, short-story writer, awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for her outstanding intellectual contribution to the literary arts and culture field through poetry, literature and philosophical works.

Former Minister of Education and Constitutional Development

Member of the Council of Justice in Batavia,Governor of the Cape Colony 

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), detained in 1961.

Founder and first commander of Cape Town, South Africa. van Riebeeck was an Administrator of the Dutch East India Company (DEIC). He landed at the southern tip of Africa on 6 April 1652 to establish a settlement for the DEIC.

For his selfless act in saving a person from drowning at Warner Beach outside Durban, van Staden was awarded the Order of Mendi for Bravery in Bronze.

Sculptor.

editor, poet, author, recipient of Olive Schreiner Award

Khiosan chief, community leader, political activist, trade unionist

futhor.

Professor of Sociology, Member of Parliament, leader of the Progressive Federal Party, Director of Policy and Planning of IDASA, politcal consultant, research fellow, author, co-founded Khula, a Black investment trust, headed a team investigating a new electoral system for South Africa in 2002, Chancellor of Stellenbosch University 

Member of the ANC and MK.Killed in combat

Member of the TIC, SAIC, ANC, MK and UDF

Member of the African National Congress

Trade unionist and General Secretary of COSATU

Western Cape Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Detectives, former MK operative, teacher
 

Member of the UDF, ANC and MK, exiled person, underwent Special Forces training with specialisation in rural guerrilla warfare in Cuba, killed in combat.

Member of the Unity Movement of South Africa, Robben Island prisoner

Anti Apartheid activist, founder member of the National Committee for Liberation, founder of the African Resistance Movement (ARM). 

Professor at the Classics department at the University of Pretoria, rector of the Rand Afrikaans University, Administrator of South West Africa (Namibia), Minister of National Education,National Party delegate to the Convention for a Democratic South A

Imprisoned at Colesberg in 1846 for anti-British activities,  he took part in the Battle of Boomplaats, hunter, led a commando in the First Anglo-Boer War 

Photojournalist

Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid era. Also Correctional Services & Deputy Minister of Defence.

South Africa's first female heart surgeon

Organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union and also served on the National Anti-Pass Council in 1944, Businessman and Civic Leader.