Rebecca Bunting (nee Notlowitz) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic who came to South Africa on the eve of the First World War.

In December 1916, Rebecca married Sidney Percival Bunting. They had two sons– Arthur and Brian.

 Mark Shinners grew up in Attridgeville in Pretoria. He became involved in politics as a teenager and joined the Pan Africanist Congress(PAC).

Mhlabunzima Maphumulo was born on 6 September 1949 and not much is known on the location of his birth or his childhood. At the age of 24, Maphumulo inherited the role of Chief of the Maphumulo tribe from his father. The territory which his chieftaincy encompasses contained 35, 000 people at the time.

Phathekile Holomisa was born on 26 August 1959 in the Eastern Cape. He went to the University of Natal during the mid 1980’s where he received a Bachelor of Law. During that time, he also obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Transkei.

Executed for the PondoIand killing of Subchief Standford Nomagqwatekana and four others

A member of the Pan African Congress and Poqo. he was executed at Pretoria Central Prison on 30 May 1967 for the murder of Maurice Berger in Paarl, Cape Province (now Western Cape) in 1962.

Zwelidumisle Mjekula was executed at age 36,for the murder of a security guard in Port Elizabeth in June 1986. 

The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he shrewdly refrained from openly associating himself with the movement’. In a letter from the Magistrate at Matatiele to the Chief Magistrate of the Transkeian Territories, dated 18 May 1954, the magistrate at Matatiele, complained that he [Mate] was ‘the writer of insubordinate letters to this office’ and various other offices, including the Native Affairs Department (NAD) Secretary ‘and the Minister.’

Jeremiah Moraka, a counsellor to Makwena Matlala, was banished from his residence in Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo] on 7 March 1951 to Matatiele* in the Transkei, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape].

In 1953, his partner, Maphuti Moraka, was also banished. She refused to leave but was forced into a police van. She took a three-year old child into banishment but left the older children with an aunt. It was reported that the aunt struggled to feed and clothe the Moraka children. Another child was born in banishment.

In relating his story of banishment to Helen Joseph, Johannes Matlala said he was arrested with others and ‘driven to Pietersburg like a flock of sheep.’ Some of them were charged for murder but he was acquitted.

Soon after, he was again arrested and banished, from his original residence at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District (now Polokwane) in the  Northern Transvaal [now, Limpopo Province] on 11 June 1952 to Nthabachicha, Mount Fletcher, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape].