Biographies

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...

Gerrit Viljoen

Professor at the Classics department at the University of Pretoria, rector of the Rand Afrikaans University, Administrat...

Ahmed Essop “Quarter” Khota

Businessman, MK member and TIC activist.

John Carneson

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Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo

Trade unionist, President of the non-European Students' Representative Council at Natal University, Natal Youth League l...

Petros Molefe

Truck driver and MK recruit at its launch in 1961

Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa

Jazz Musician 

Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long

Working class martyr, trade unionist and communist

Frank A. Pendla

Court interpreter, a postmaster, a clerk, and a restaurant proprietor. President of the Cape African Congress

King Moshoeshoe I

Chief of the Bamokoteli

James D. Ngojo

Court interpreter in Paarl,   arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was later withdrawn, ...

Ahmed Ebrahim Patel

Key organiser of the Transvaal Indian Congress on the East Rand, and appeared for the Congress before numerous hearings ...

Professor Barney Nyameko Pityana

One of founding members of the South African Students' Organisation, and an important figure in the Black Consciousness ...