Biography Index
| Last name | First name | Synopsis | Date of birth | Date of death | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | wa Thiong’o | Ngugi | A Kenyan born academic, author and social activist | 1938 | |
 | Wabena | Jeff | 12 October 1990 | ||
| Wade | Colin | |||
| Wadee | Moebien | Medical doctor, forensic pathologist and political activist | 1943 | |
 | Waghmarae | Hemant | Teacher, political detainee, member of the BPC, Vice-President of Azapo, TASA, NEUSA, PTL and SADTU, School Support Manager of the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre. | 24-October-1948 | |
| Wallace | Nkoata | |||
 | Walsh | Aidan | 1932 | 16-July-2009 | |
 | Walt | Ethel | Member of the Black Sash, founder of the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC) to fight forced removal | 22-November-1925 | 03-June-2010 |
| Walters | Tom | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). | ||
| Walton | Beshe | |||
| Wana | Lundi | |||
| Wanda | Cele | |||
| Wandile | John | 26-December-1976 | |||
| Wanneburgh | Alf | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) | ||
| Ward | Sydney | |||
| Ward | W. | |||
| Wasa | Nkululeko | |||
| Washington | Mbongo | |||
 | Washkansky | Louis | The world’s first human heart transplant recipient. | 1913 | 1967 |
 | Waterwitch | Robert | Member of the ANC's armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe who died on a mission to plant a bomb at Athlone Magistrate's Court in resistance to the Tricameral elections in 1989. | 15 July 1969 | 23 July 1989 |
| Watts | Agnes | |||
 | Wauchope | George | Political activist, member of AZAPO, lecturer and minister in the Anglican Church. | unknown | 26-May-2011 |
 | Wauchope | Isaac | Pastor, Writer, Politician, Teacher and Activist | 1852 | 1917 |
| Wayne | Malgas | |||
| Webb | Pauline | A member of the Young Communist League (YCL) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | 1927 | 27-April-2017 | |
| Webber | Harry | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | ||
 | Webster | David | Academic, Anthropologist, activist in various organizations, most notably the Detainees Parent Support Committee. | 01-December-1944 | 01-May-1989 |
| Webster | Edward | A member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) | |||
| Webster | Edward | A member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) | ||
| Webushe | Welile | 19-August-1987 | |||
| Weijdema | Trineke | Co-founder of the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola and Southern Africa. | ||
 | Weinberg | Eli | Trade unionist and photographer. Member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of South Africa, Secretary of the local committee of the South African Trades and Labour Council, ‘listed’ in terms of the Suppression of Communis | 1908 | July 1981 |
 | Weinberg | Sheila | Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (Jodac), member of the Black Sash and the Five Freedoms foundation, founder and a Board member of the Administrative Training Project, which provided training and support to civics, trade unions and the UDF, founding member of Friends of the UDF, and former member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. | 01-October-1945 | 11-November-2004 |
 | Weinberg | Paul | Photojournalist, documentary photographer, taught photography at the Open School, media worker worked at the Institute of Race Relations, film maker, lecturer | 1956 | |
 | Weinberg | Violet | Trade unionist, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the ANC (African National Congress), political prisoner, exiled person | ||
| Welcome | Fini | |||
| Welcome | Mafika | |||
| Welcome | Maphumulo | |||
| Welcome | Mhlongo | |||
| Welcome | Siwa | |||
| Welcome | Zanomzi | |||
| Wellington | Dinca | |||
| Wellington | Maguma | |||
| Wellington | Mandoyi | |||
| Wellington | Marrand | |||
| Wellington | Mbekwa | |||
| Wellington | Mbopa | |||
| Wellington | Mkwayi | |||
| Wellington | Sindile | |||
| Wellington | Skilishe | |||
| Wellington | Sobandla | |||
| Wellman | Peter | |||
| Welsh | David | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). | ||
| Wenning | Pieter Willem Frederick | 1873 | 1921 | |
| Wenzel | Rosemary | A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM) | ||
| Wenzel | Ernest | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Detained in 1960, and again in 1964. | ||
| Wesi | Kenny | |||
| Wesley | Mahlobo | |||
| West | Martin | 1804 | 1849 | |
| Whale | Robert Hearder | |||
| Whitford | Ernest Howard | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | ||
 | Wieder | Alan | Historian | ||
 | Wiles | Lucy | Artist | 1920 | 2008 |
 | Wiles | Frank | Artist | 1881 | 1963 |
 | Wiles | Walter | Artist | 1875 | 1966 |
| Wilfred | Mabena | |||
| Wilfred | Makhatini | |||
| Wilfred | Ngcobo | |||
| Wille | Yeye | |||
| William | Daniel | Political activist and Clergyman | 1880 | |
| William | Davis | |||
| William | Gathebe | |||
| William | Khame | |||
| William | Mani | |||
| William | Moses | |||
| William | Mtotoyi | |||
| William | Mtwalo | |||
| William | Ntutu | |||
 | Williams | Graeme | Photographer | 1961 | |
 | Williams | Cecil | Teacher, journalist, theatre director, political activist, Chair of the Springbok Legion | 1906 | 1979 |
| Williams | George | 09-September-1976 | |||
| Williams | Gerald | |||
| Williams | Rocklyn | |||
| Williams | Ruth | a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) | ||
 | Williams | Coline | Member of the African National Congress (ANC) armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) and the Ashley Kriel Detachment, Cape Youth Congress, drama student | 30 May 1967 | 23 July 1989 |
 | Williams de Bruyn | Sophia | Executive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, founder member of the South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU), full-time organiser of the Coloured People’s Congress in Johannesburg, a leader of the 1956 women | 1938 | |
 | Williamson | Sue | South African Artist and writer | 21-January-1941 | |
| Willibard | Sakaria | |||
| Willie | Dindald | |||
| Willy | Madikoto | |||
| Wilman | Maria | 29-April-1867 | 09-November-1957 | ||
| Wilmot | Mbukwana | |||
| Wilmot | Mkwayi | |||
| Wilpard | Martin | Banished person. | ||
 | Wilson | Monica | Anthropologist, educator, author, scholar and academic. | 3 January 1908 | 26 October 1982 |
| Wilson | Margaret | 26-December-1976 | |||
 | Wilson | Francis | Academic, researcher | 17 May 1939 | 24 April 2022 |
| Wilson | Bekwayo | |||
| Wilson | Booi | |||
| Wilson | Fanti | |||
| Wilson | Kuselo | |||
| Wilson | Luzipo | |||
| Wilson | Magodla | |||
| Wilson | Mketshane | |||
| Wilson | Resha | |||
| Windvogel | Zandisile | |||
| Winkler | Harold | A member of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) | ||
 | Winkles | George | Artist. | 1875 | 1928 |
 | Winship | William | Paediatrician, medical specialist, lecturuer, scholar. For his excellent contribution to the field of medicine and dedicating his adult life to paediatrics and human genetics, William Sinclair Winship was awarded the Order of the Baobab in Silver. | 18 March 1927 | |
| Winter | Bishop | |||
| Wiseman | Magxwalisu | |||
| Wiseman | Zulu | |||
| Witboy | Sinki | 26-December-1976 | |||
 | Withers | Honorine | Artist | 1870 | 1956 |
| Wmand | Mati | |||
| Wolfson | Issy | 1906 | 1980 | |
| Wollheim | Oscar | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) | ||
 | Wolpe | Anne-Marie | political activist, member of the South African Communist Party, lecturer, author, gender activist, played a key part in the escape of political prisoners from Marshall Square prison, actively involved in the African National Congress | 01- December-1930 | 14-February-2018 |
 | Wolpe | Harold | Member of the SACP and ANC, political detainee, lawyer, academic, sociologist, Nuffield Foundation Sociological Scholar at the London School of Economics, member of the ANC’s London Education Committee and its National Education Council, Dir | 14-January-1926 | 20-January-1996 |
| Wolton | Molly | Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | 1906 | 1947 |
| Wolton | Douglas G. | Leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933, editor of the Party's newspaper, the South African Worker, later Umsebenzi. | ||
 | Wood | Josephine | Teacher. | 22-January-1874 | 04-April-1965 |
 | Woods | Donald | Journalist, Anti apartheid activist, friend of Steve Biko, subjected to surveillance, placed under house arrest, fled to Lesotho, exiled in London. | 15 December 1933 | 19 August 2001 |
 | Woods | Wendy | Anti-apartheid activist, Black Sash member, founder of the Donald Woods Foundation, charity campaigner | 5 February 1941 | 19 May 2013 |
 | Wright | Dorothy | Artist | 1911 | 1991 |
 | Wulfsohn | Gisele | A freelance photographer specialising in portraiture, education, health and gender issues | 18-March-1957 | 27-December-2011 |
| Wycliff | Nyalele |