Coopoosamy, the eldest son of Thambi and Veerammal Naidoo, was sentenced in 1909 to seven days with hard labour for hawking without licence.

Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby. He attended the St Joseph’s Catholic School in Fort Beaufort until Grade 8, walking 5km a day to get to and from school. Before and after school, Mpati herded the small herd of cattle his family owned with his cousins.

William Maxajana (alias Max Thomas) was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act.

Detained during the 1960 State of Emergency. Banned under the Suppression of Communism Act. Prohibited from attending gatherings. Forbidden from entering any factory or educational premises. To report at the local police station once a week.

Phindile Fethi was a former Trade Unionist with the National Union of Textile Workers and Secretary of International Aid Society (IAS). He was detained from 10 May 1976 to 16 May 1977 in terms of the Terrorism Act and then was restricted to Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng). 

June 1982. Banned for two years under the Internal Security Act.

L. B. Mokele, General Secretary of Mooiplaas Squatters Association, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga) was threatened in a letter that he would be named or listed if continued with his Communist activities. 

 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.