Justice Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang. Mogoeng was born on 14 January 1961 in Goo-Mokgatha (Koffiekraal) village, north east of Zeerust, North West Province. He was raised and spent most of his early life there. Justice Mogoeng is the eldest son of three sons of Gaboipone Mogoeng, his mother, and his late father, Setshwaelo Herbert Mogoeng. Justice Mogoeng married Mmaphefo and they have three children together, two daughters, Johanna and Oteng, and a son, Mogaetsha. Justice Mogoeng attended Mokgatlha Primary School.

Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him at school until Standard five (Grade Seven), after which he worked to help support the family. He was actively involved in the 1976 Soweto student’s uprising, even though by then he was no longer a student. In 1977, together with several other youths from Soweto, he left the country to join the ranks of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). He received military and political training at Novo Katenga in Angola.

Duke Themba Machobane went into exile to Nigeria around 1977. He studied for his ‘A Levels’ in Ogoja, south eastern Nigeria. After completing his ‘A levels’ in 1979, he proceeded to the University of Ibadan, Western Nigeria, where he studied English. Machobane was at Ibadan for two years where he studied for a BA Honours degree in English.

Duke Themba Machobane was killed in a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid on 14 June 1985 in Gaborone, Botswana. 

Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he matriculated at the Central Indian High School, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), and obtained a BA Degree with Majors in Sociology and Afrikaans, in 1963, from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Thabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetlawas born in Lydenburg, eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 18 May 1957.

He joined the South African Student Movement (SASM), as a high school student in 1974. Makwetlafled South Africa in the middle of his matriculation examinations in 1976 and matriculated from Mmabathoana High School, Maseru, Lesotho in 1977.

Phindile Mfeti, a first cousin of former State President Thabo Mbeki and nephew of Govin Mbeki was born on 15 December 1946, at Nqamakwe, Eastern Cape. He was the second of three children.

He married Feziwe in 1970 in a traditional ceremony and the couple registered after he was released from detention in 1977.