Professor Robert Broom was born on 30 November 1866 Paisley, Scotland to a poor family. He was educated as a doctor and received his degree from the University of Glasgow in 1895. In 1893 he married Mary Baird Baillie.

Broom specialized in the field of midwifery, but he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to support him while he travelled the world. After traveling to Australia, he settled in South Africa in 1897.

Richard S Canca was born in 1924 in Transkei. Canca was a leading figure in the All African Convention (AAC). Born about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from the University of Cape Town.

He was born in the Clarkebury district of the Cape and educated at the Clarkebury Training Institution, where he later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape in the mid-1920s.

Born in 1920 Dichaba was a herd boy until he was 15. He left school to become a labourer in the railway workshops.

For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as nobody has done more than the Fitzsimons family to inform the public about our serpentine fauna or to alleviate the dangerous effects of snakebite. For much of the twentieth century people have relied on Fitzsimons's snakebite serum to save their lives after having being bitten and have used the familiar Fitzsimons books to identify snakes they have encountered.

Janub Gool, also known as 'Jane', was a founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and an active figure in the All African Convention and the Anti-CAD (anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement) in the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sister of Goolam H. Gool and a college graduate.

Penny Heyns was born on 8 November 1974 to a deeply religious family in Springs, Gauteng Province. She attended the local primary school and later Amanzimtoti High School in Kwa Zulu Natal where she matriculated in 1992. At school Heyns was sporty but swimming was her first choice. 

Anthony Holiday had served as a senior reporter on the Cape Times newspaper prior to his arrest, and had also been employed by the Rand Daily Mail as a political journalist. In November 1976 he was charged in the Pretoria Supreme Court under the Terrorism Act. He was charged with receiving money from the ANC and SACP, establishing an underground cell with three others, publishing propagandist material, attempting to undergo training in subversive activities while in Britain in 1969 and attempting to train recruits to evade surveillance.

Kallenbach was the owner of Tolstoy Farm and was a prosperous German Architect in Johannesburg. He became a devoted friend and co-worker of Gandhi's and he placed his Tolstoy Farm at the disposal of Satyagrahis.

He participated in the Satyagrahis great march and confronted white protesters. He accompanied Gandhi to India and many years later he visited Gandhi in Sevagram Ashram. He finally settled in Israel.

A number of Korana under the leadership of Captain Jan Bloem Jr investigated this complaint in the presence and possibly also under the influence of Fourie and a large group of whites, and Kausob\'s claim was rejected. At this time British authority extended over Transorangia. Since tension was mounting between the various population groups around Vanwyksvlei the British Resident, H.D. Warden*, tried to eliminate friction.