Biography Index

A Kenyan born academic, author and social activist 

Medical doctor, forensic pathologist and political activist

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.

Member of the Black Sash, founder of the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC) to fight forced removal

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

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

The world’s first human heart transplant recipient.

Pastor, Writer, Politician, Teacher and Activist

Political activist, member of AZAPO, lecturer and minister in the Anglican Church.

A member of the Young Communist League (YCL) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Academic, Anthropologist, activist in various organizations, most notably the Detainees Parent Support Committee.

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

Co-founder of the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola and Southern Africa.

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

Photojournalist, documentary photographer, taught photography at the Open School, media worker worked at the Institute of Race Relations, film maker, lecturer

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

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Detained in 1960, and again in 1964.

A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM)

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Historian

Artist

Artist

Artist

Political activist and Clergyman

Photographer

Teacher, journalist, theatre director, political activist, Chair of the Springbok Legion

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) and the Ashley Kriel Detachment, Cape Youth Congress, drama student

a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

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

South African Artist and writer

Banished person.

Anthropologist, educator, author, scholar and academic.

Academic, researcher

A member of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC)

Artist.

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.

Artist

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

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

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

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.

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Teacher.

Anti-apartheid activist, Black Sash member, founder of the Donald Woods Foundation, charity campaigner

Journalist, Anti apartheid activist, friend of Steve Biko, subjected to surveillance, placed under house arrest, fled to Lesotho, exiled in London.

Artist

A freelance photographer specialising in portraiture, education, health and gender issues