Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), based in Cape Town, and also was recruited into the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA).
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of SA, or KWV) in 1918, Charles W H Kohler can be regarded as the most important figure in the Cape wine industry in the twentieth century.
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand trial. He was chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) Evaton branch in 1953 and 1956.
Godfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo was born in 1909, he grew up in Bloemfontein, graduated from Wilberforce Institute, and studied journalism through correspondence schools. He wrote for a variety of English and vernacular papers, and later established a printing business and a real estate company in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Kuzwayo was founding member of the African Democratic Party in 1943. He died in 1965.
Cassim Mahomed Lakhi was the youngest son of Mahomed Lakhi and his wife, Hawa Bibi, who were both born in India. They arrived in South Africa in 1894 and settled in Greytown. Here Mahomed Lakhi started the firm of M.E. Lakhi in 1914 and played a very active role in community life. He was a great philanthropist and donated generously towards education projects, charities and numerous mosques in Natal.
As a trader in the Orange Free State in the 1940s, he organized for the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the national ANC deputy-speaker. He was a member of the Africans' Claims committee. In the late 1950s he left South Africa and settled in Basutoland (now Lesotho), where he became active in the Marematlou Freedom Party.
David Livingstone was born on 19 March, 1813 in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was a committed Protestant Sunday school teacher and probably influenced the young David to grew up with an aspiration to become a missionary.
J. S. Likhing was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was educated in the Cape and later, perhaps by correspondence, became a Licentiate in Theology of the Antioch Seminary in New York. He was general secretary of the separatist African Orthodox Church, president of the Bechuanaland-Griqualand West, African National Congress (ANC) around 1930, and also an assistant chaplain of the national ANC.
Laura Jean Levetan was born in Cape Town in 1955, the third child of Lionel and Marie Levetan. Their household was steeped in Anti-apartheid politics and Laura met many activists and politicians during her childhood. She was schooled in Muizenberg and Newlands and matriculated at Sans Souci Girls High in 1973.
Theodore B. Lujiza was born in 1886 and educated at Lovedale, he was working in a bank in East London when Clements Kadalie arrived there to establish a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in mid-1922. The two men became friends immediately. Meetings were organized with Lujiza translating into Xhosa for Kadalie, and 400 members were enrolled in the first week.