Professor Pieter Steyn was born in 5 January 1940 in Vryburg in the North West. He is currently a senior researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at the University of Stellenbosch, distinguishing himself in the area of the chemistry and biosynthesis of mycotoxins. These toxins are produced on substrates by the secondary metabolism of fungi. Prof. Steyn holds the distinction of having a toxigenic fungus bear his name, Aspergillus steynii.  

He was born at Eshowe, KZN. He trained at Rorke’s Drift as a sculptor in 1972. He was a member of the Thupelo Art Workshop in 1990. At present he works mainly in soapstone.

He has participated in group exhibitions and is represented in public and private collections in SA.

In 1980 he won 2nd prize in the Durban Arts Outdoor Sculpture exhibition organised by the Durban Art Gallery at the Durban Botanic Gardens as part of the Durban Arts 80 Festival.

He has participated in numerous group exhibitions from 1980 and is represented in public and private collections in SA.

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