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Lives of Courage
4,094 PEOPLE
- David Joseph WebsterAcademic, Anthropologist, activist in various organizations, most notably the Detainees…
- Mbuyiselo Stanley VanqaMember of the African National Congress
- Valliamma Munuswamy MudaliarActivist and Martyr. Died as a result of her participation in the South African…
- Dimitri TsafendasParliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.
- Abram Ramothibi Onkgopotse TiroPolitical activist, teacher, member of the South African Students Organisation and Black…
- Adelaide Frances TamboNurse, chairperson of the George Goch branch of the ANCYL, founder member of the Afro…
- Robert SobukweTeacher, lecturer, lawyer, Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC…
- Dulcie Evonne SeptemberANC member, anti-apartheid activist, and political prisoner who went into exile in London…
- Judge Albert Louis “Albie” SachsMember of the ANC, helped draft the ANC's Code of Conduct and statutes, member of the…
- Mewa RamgobinPresident of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the…
- Andries RaditselaActivist, trade unionist, member of the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union (CWIU) and…
- Hector PietersonStudent Activist, one of the first students to be killed in the 1976 student rebellion in…
- Peter Papela NthiteBorn 1929, the son of a labourer, he grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. From St Cyprian…
- Cleopas Madoda NsibandeLiberation struggle veteran, prominent Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist and Founding…
- A. B. NogayaBorn 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the…
- Carl NiehausANC activist, political prisoner, ambassador, Member of Parliament .
- Thembile Benson NdimbaActive in politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African…
- Suliman (Solly) Mahomed NathieA businessperson, played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had…
- Billy NairActivist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of…
- Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi NaidooImportant figure in the history of Satyagraha (passive resistance) in South Africa,…
- Phyllis NaidooTeacher, lawyer, university lecturer, author, member of the NEUM, NIC, SACP, ANC and MK,…
- Rahima MoosaShop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal…
- Popo MolefeFounding member of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), UDF Secretary for the…
- Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley MogobaRobben Island prisoner, banned person, President of Pan African Congress, Bishop of the…
- Ismail Chota MeerJournalist, trade unionist, attorney and political activist, Member of Parliament …
- Thabo Mvuyelwa MbekiPresident of South Africa, first deputy president in the new Government of National Unity.
- C. J. MayekisoBorn in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became…
- John A. MavusoMember of the African National Congress national executive committee, defendant in the…
- Zachariah Keodirelang MatthewsSouth African academic, African National Congress politician, Botswana's first ambassador…
- Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe MatthewsAssistant Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister of Botswana and Assistant…
- Florence MatomelaTeacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of…
- Jonas Dinous MatlouJonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an…
- Philemon MatholeOrganiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. Participated in the Defiance Campaign of…
- Leslie MassinaSecretary of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Deputy volunteer-in…
- Teboho “Tsietsi” MashininiTsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto…
- Winnie Madikizela-MandelaANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture…
- Elmon MaleleA member of the African National Congress (ANC), Malele was an activist involved in the…
- Charles MakhohlisoTrade unionist, Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the African…
- James J. MajoroClerk, miner, founding member and secretary of the African Mineworkers' Union. Organizing…
- Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa, volunteer in the South African Armed…
- Elizabeth MafekengTrade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the…
- Josias MadzunyaJosias Madzunya was born in the Sibasa area of the northern Transvaal in about 1909, a…
- Sakumzi (Saki) Justice MacozomaStudent activist, businessperson, member of SASM, PEBCO, UDF and ANC National Executive…
- Norman LevyMember of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of…
- Leonard (Len) Lee-WardenLinotype operator and printer of The Guardian, Lee-Warden was elected as Native…
- Pius Nkonzo LangaDeputy President Constitutional Court, Deputy Chief Justice of the South African…
- James la GumaTrade unionist and political activist, member of the ICU, CPSA and the ANC
- Alex la GumaWriter, member of the SACP, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation …
- Moses Mauane KotaneGeneral secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the…
- Jerry Dibanhlele KhumaloANC member and political activist