Banned for 5 years under the Suppression of Communism Act.

 Charles Bennett (Buck) Llewellyn was born in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and black mother. Being of mixed–raced meant that Llewellyn was significantly darker than the average white person. Even so, he would pass himself off as a white person since it was easier to be White in South Africa  in those days. His parents were never married and he was considered an illegitimate child. Though he was darker, he was closer to white in appearance than he was to black, so much so that he could get away with it at times.

General Lothar Paul Neethling was born in East Prussia. In 1948, the Afrikaners who were supporters of Nazi Germany during World War II came up with a plan to adopt 10 000 German orphans. The German Children’s Fund (GCF) could only manage to fund 83 orphans to be transported to Cape Town. Among the orphans was Neethling, who at the time went by his biological parents’ name Tientz. He was adopted by GCF chairman, Dr J C Neethling.

Professor Colin Gardner was born on 26 June 1933, in London, Britain. He came to South Africa with his parents in 1947. He matriculated at Maritzburg College, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal - KZN).  After graduating from Natal University (now University of kwaZulu-Natal - UKZN), he went to Oxford University, England as a Rhodes scholar.

Mxolisi “Bra Ace” Mgxashe was born in 1944. He joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in Cape Town in the 1960s and took part in the march, in Cape Town’s Langa Township on 21 March 1960, where the police shot and killed three people and many others were wounded.

Mlungiseleli Velaphi (MK name Mzimkulu Goduka) was born in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape in 1967 was a United Democratic Front (UDF) member.  He left South Africa in 1985 to join the African National Congress (ANC) and mKhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC.  After receiving his basic military training in Angola, he spent a year in Cuba undergoing Special Forces training with specialisation in rural guerrilla warfare.

Vuyani Goniwe, also known as Jorissen (his MK name), from Ntselamanzi Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile Ketelo and Mgcini Mali to join the African National Congress’s (ANC) military wing, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK).

In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a boycott. The colonists were not going to allow the Cape to be used as a penal settlement, and so strong was the agitation that the Irish convict settlers “on board the Neptune were not allowed to land. The authorities tried to secure meat and vegetables for the vessel, but merchants refused to co-operate either from principle or fear.

Rabia “Choti” Motala was born in Kokstad, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) in 1932. She completed her primary schooling in Kokstad at the local Coloured school but her conservative father did not allow her to attend high school.  Choti remained at home, helping in the family shop, did dress-making, but the urge to study was always there and she read profusely.

Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is a founder member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and participated in the formation of the Azanian Student's Organisation (AZASO) in 1979. Prior to that, he was a member Soweto Student's Representative Council in 1976.