Biography Index

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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 "Eddie"		29 March 1942	5 March 2024
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
Wilcox	Robert (Bobby)		January 1938
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	Reggie		19 September 1954
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

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