Biographies

Eugene de Kock

See biography written by Jaime Ibarra-Perez and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership pro...

Professor Bacela

Member of COSAS and ANC, Robben Island political prisoner, Secretary of the Central House Committee (UWC), Mayor and Loc...

Johannes Tengani

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Isaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho

Member of ANC and MK, Chief Logistics Officer for the Luthuli Detachment and Member of the Limpopo Legislature

Abdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood

Vice president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and ANC, Community activist...

Meshach Pelem

Teacher, businessman, one of the four vice-presidents of the African National Congress at its founding, founded the Bant...

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva

Trade unionist, President of Brazil, for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of the agenda of the South and ...

Rev George Wauchope

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

Mike Terry

Former Executive Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

Member of COSAS, Co-founder of AYCO, UDF in the Transvaal and presently Minister of Arts and Culture in South Africa.

Stephen Tefu

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Central Committee in Johannesburg, organizer for the Federa...

Ben Khoapa

Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, Director of Study Project on Christianity in an Apartheid Society (SPROCAS) ...

James M. Thaele

President of the Western Cape ANC and editor

Ian Mkhize

S. S. Tema

Dutch Reformed minister, founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federa...