Patrick Matanjana was born in 1943.  Bra Pat, as he was affectionately known, was a member of the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and in 1967 he was sentenced by the apartheid regime to 20 years imprisonment on Robben Island.

Sibusiso Mashinini was born to Johannes and Catherine. Unlike his brothers and sisters, he was very quiet and more helpful at home. He was remarkably intelligent, which was noticeable at an early age. According to his father, when Mashinini was three, a dentist commented that his set of teeth told of his remarkable brilliance. At the age of about 11, he helped his father find an ageing uncle in the deep rural of the Orange Free State. As a result of Mahinini's persistence in investigating, through investigative letter writing, he located the uncle and communication resumed.

Born in 1914 Mahlangu was a trade unionist. As a domestic worker, Mahlangu took part in the 1942 anti-pass campaign and was sacked. Later he was again victimised after taking part in a strike at a power station. He became a full-time trade union secretary after entering the laundry industry. He was an Executive Committee Member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions from 1955-1956.

Journalist George Arthur Heard was the elder son of Arthur Henry Heard, inspector of works in Bloemfontein, and his wife, Millicent Agnes Elliot. He was one of South Africa's best-known and most controversial political journalists in the 1930's and early 1940's. His disappearance without a trace on 8 August 1945 caused a sensation at the time and remains a mystery. 

Ray (or Taube, her Yiddish name) Harmel was born in Lithuania in 1905.  Strongly influenced by some of her six brothers, she joined the-then illegal Lithuanian Communist Party.  She eventually had to flee the political police and escaped, via Germany where she was detained for six months for illegal entry into that country.  In 1928, Ray arrived in South Africa, with little formal education and no English, although she was fluent in Yiddish, German, Lithuanian and Russian.  The only skill she had acquired was at the sewing machine, and so her life as a seamstress be

Mr GK Gokhale was the Founder of the Servants of India Society in Poona. On Ghandi's invitiation, he Toured South Africa in October of 1912. He was associated with Deccan Education Society's Fergusson College as Professor of Mathematics, English, Political Economy. In 1899 he was elected to the Bombay Legislative Council and presided over the Indian National Congress Session in Benaras. He championed the cause of South African Indentured Indians.