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United Democratic Front (UDF)
65 PEOPLE
- Theresa SolomonCommunity activist, political prisoner, member of the United Democratic Front and the…
- Matsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga] South African politician and educator. Minister of Basic Education since May 2009. …
- Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" CoovadiaNatal Indian Congress, United Democratic Front and African National Congress activist,…
- Tiego MosenekeStudent activist and leader, political prisoner, lawyer, member of the ANC and UDF
- Bheki CeleTeacher, Minister of Police (2018 - present), MEC for Transport, Safety and Security for…
- Magasvarie GovenderAnti-apartheid activist, teacher, trade unionist, member of the Natal Indian Congress,…
- Paul DavidAnti-Apartheid activist, liberation struggle hero, Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress…
- Simon GqubuleTheologian, educationalist, community leader, anti-apartheid activist, member of the…
- Nosipho DastileCommunity activist, anti-apartheid activist, founding member of the UDF, first president…
- Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi MthembuMthembu was an active member of the African National Congress (ANC) who escaped into…
- Robert Anthony Basil WaterwitchMember of the ANC's armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe who died on a mission to plant a bomb at…
- Derrick FineA gay rights activist and a member of OLGA and the UDF
- R. A. Saloojee
- Jerry Coovadia
- Mildred Leisa
- Andrew Boraine
- George Du Plessis
- Joe Marks
- Alfred Toto MeteleActivist, lay preacher, served as a senator in the first Democratic state and also a…
- Vejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith RamlakanPresident of the Medical Students Representative Council at University of Natal (now…
- Jessie Yasmin Duarte Former South African High Commissioner to Mozambique, provincial secretary of the…
- Yunus Ismail MahomedLawyer, business person and member of the ANC and SACP, Regional Secretary of the UDF …
- Saleem BadatAcademic, author, Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, the first black South African to…
- Gerald Patrick Kearney Teacher, author, director of Diakonia, political detainee, Executive member of the Natal…
- Devikarani Priscilla JanaHuman rights lawyer and underground ANC operative; member of the South African Law…
- Virgile Joseph BonhommeTrade unionist, political activist, political prisoner, founder member and Chair of the…
- Jonathan ShapiroCartoonist and activist
- Basil CoetzeeMusician, liberation struggle activist and volunteer.
- Ivan TomsIvan Toms was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 11 July 1953. He…
- Derrick Fine
- Justice Zac YacoobA former Advocate, a former member of the Democratic Lawyers Association, Durban…
- Roy PadayachieIndustrial Chemist, early childhood education practioner, Director of the Chatsworth…
- R. A. Saloojee
- Jerry Coovadia
- Andrew Boraine
- George Du Plessis
- Joe Marks
- Ishwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba Member of the TIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Member of Parliament, recipient of The National…
- Dullah Mohamed OmarAnti-apartheid activist, human rights lawyer, member of the Unity Movement, Western Cape…
- King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzuluKing of the Zulus
- Reverend Mcebisi Osman XunduAnglican Priest, full time worker for the Black Community Programmes, Director of Justice…
- Oscar MpethaOrganiser and later General Secretary of the African Food and Canning Workers Union …
- Florence MkhizeParticipated in the Defiance Campaign in 1952, which led to her being banned, worked…
- Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” PhaahlaMember of SASO, BPC, AZASO and the ANC, medical doctor, Secretary of the UDF (KZN),…
- John James IsselPolitical activist, detained, regional secretary of SASO, UDF member, former provincial…
- Dr Essop Essak JassatMedical doctor, Chairperson of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, the Transvaal Indian…
- Mewa RamgobinPresident of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the…
- Myron PeterAnti-Apartheid activist, UDF activist, progressive media and cultural activist,…
- Billy NairActivist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of…
- Victoria Nonyamezelo MxengeNurse, midwife, lawyer and member of the UDF and NOW