Joseph Nong “Joe” Thloloe was born on 01 July 1942 in Orlando East, Soweto to Nokuthula and Joel Letebele Thloloe. He began his primary school education at Law Palmer Primary School and upon completion went to Orlando High School. It was here that he was instructed by teachers who were politically inclined and abhorred the system of Apartheid, like Ellen Kuzwayo and Thamsanqa Kambule.

Aaron Sipho Madondo, the last of 11 children in his family was born on 6 August 1958 in Mofolo South, Soweto.  He began his primary school education at Gugu Lower Primary and later moved to Fred Clark Higher Primary in Soweto. He passed Standard Six with a first class pass, the only learner in his school to do so. After completing his primary school education Madondo went to Hlengiwe High School.  

When Prema Naidoo and others were detained in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, Kuben Naidoo, holding up a banner outside the magistrate’s court in Johannesburg calling for the release of all detainees. It quoted him as proclaiming:

“I feel proud to be doing it for the struggle and I am not scared.”

Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945.

Mrs. N. Pillay (Parenithama), mother-in-law of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo, was part of the first group of Transvaal women who went to Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) during the third phase of the Satyagraha in 1913.  

Mithrasagaran (Murthie) Naidoo was the son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo.  He worked as a clerk and was detained for political activities, without charges, for several weeks in 1964.

Graeme Craig Smith was born to Graeme and Janet Smith on 1 February 1981. Graeme attended King Edward the VII School in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng).

Smith made his domestic debut for Gauteng in 1999/2000 and his first class cricket debut for the United Cricket Board of South Africa Invitation XI against Griqualand in the same year. Graeme moved to the Western Province the following year.