Bertram Buxton Xiniwe was born in Middledrift in the Cape, the son of Paul Xiniwe, who subsequently became a well-known hotel operator in King William's Town. Xiniwe was elected to the Natives' Representative Council in 1937 and remained a member until his death in 1949. He was educated at Lovedale was a law agent by profession.

Tlou Theophilus Cholo was born in 1926 at Kgakana Village, Polokwane. A son to a trade unionist, his father worked in Johannesburg where he was an active member of the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU). Cholo attended Lennes Primary School in Limpopo. At the age of 19, he left his hometown for Johannesburg to look for a job, where he got acquainted with the struggles of the working class and other sectors of the population on the Reef.

Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied to become a teacher at the Transvaal College of Education in Soshanguve, Pretoria North. Madisha moved to the Northern Province district of Zebediela after battling (without success) to find a job in the Pretoria area. Madisha became the chairperson of the Northern Transvaal Teachers' Union in Zebediela, Limpopo.

Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s.  He lived in Pietersburg, (now Polokwane, in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo).

He came to Johannesburg in 1953 to attend high school where he became politically conscious. Subsequently, he joined the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, an affiliate of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) where his political activism began.

Patrick Mabitse, also known as Mazibuko Gibson. Killed by mutineers - Pango, Angola     

Died in Angola in an accident, 1988.

Pasqual Macamba, also known as  (Khauleza Ndawe), a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) died from natural casues in the German Democratic Republic

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Died in exile in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1979.

Eric Maga (Jongile Mzwandile) was executed by order of the uMkhonto we Sizwe( MK) Military Tribunal in Angola in 1984.