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| B-0007799 | biography | Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal | 1923-1966 | – |
| B-0007863 | biography | Isaac Bokala | 1929-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0007900 | biography | Sonia Beryl Bunting | 1922-2001 | – |
| B-0007903 | biography | Julius Phumelele Busa | 1927 | – |
| B-0007956 | biography | Dr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco | 1919 | ✓ |
| B-0007976 | biography | Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood | 1927 | – |
| B-0008087 | biography | D Fuyani | 1924 | – |
| B-0008138 | biography | James “Jobe” Hadebe | 1923 | – |
| B-0008160 | biography | Bartholomew Hlapane | 1918-1982 | ✓ |
| B-0008177 | biography | Isaac Osier Horvitch | 1920 | – |
| B-0008182 | biography | Gopallal Hurbans | 1915 | – |
| B-0008184 | biography | Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson | 1924-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0008201 | biography | Christina Jasson | 1928 | – |
| B-0008219 | biography | Plaatjies Joseph Paul | 1930 | ✓ |
| B-0008232 | biography | Thembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa | 1923 | ✓ |
| B-0008238 | biography | Ntwaesele “Fish” Keitseng | 1919-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0008243 | biography | Lungile Kepe | 1927 | – |
| B-0008307 | biography | Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden | 1913-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0008321 | biography | Dr Arthur Elias Letele | 1916-1965 | ✓ |
| B-0008403 | biography | Charles Makhohliso | 1918 | – |
| B-0008416 | biography | Elmon Malele | 1920-1977 | ✓ |
| B-0008468 | biography | Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba) | 1934-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008504 | biography | C. J. Mayekiso | 1913-1969 | – |
| B-0008556 | biography | David H Mgugunyeka | 1906 | – |
| B-0008562 | biography | Vuyisile Mini | 1920-1964 | ✓ |
| B-0008574 | biography | Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize | 1889-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0008588 | biography | Frank Modiba | 1909 | – |
| B-0008604 | biography | Martha Mohlakoane | 1906 | – |
| B-0008617 | biography | Patrick Mosell Molaoa | 1925-1968 | – |
| B-0008632 | biography | Leslie Sonny Thuso Monnanyane | 1928 | – |
BiographyMohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal
Mohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal was born in 1923 in Piet Retief. He was accused in the Treason Trial, and the trial that was run parallel to this, namely the 1955…
BiographyIsaac Bokala
Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of the…
BiographyJulius Phumelele Busa
Born in 1927 Busa was a trade unionist. He played an important part in organising textile workers in Worcester, and was an African National Congress (ANC)…
BiographyDr. Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco
Wilson Zamindlela "Zami" Conco, the son of a semi-literate but wealthy cattle farmer in the Ixopo district of Natal in 1919, Conco rose to become Luthuli's…
BiographyAyesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
Ayesha Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester, Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young girl, Asa (as she was…
BiographyD Fuyani
Born in 1924 Fuyani was a factory worker. He was the rural organiser of the African National Congress, and prominent in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth.
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
James “Jobe” John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African…
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…
BiographyGopallal Hurbans
Born in 1915 Hurbans was a businessman and sugar farmer. He took the lead in establishing four Indian schools in the Tongaat district and was chairman of the…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
BiographyChristina Jasson
Born in 1928 Jasson worked as a clerk. She was active in the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and canning workers, and textile workers,…
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
Plaatjies Paul Joseph was on 1st of June in 1930 in Ferreirastown,Johannesburg.Joseph joined the Transvaal Indian Congress Youth League as a teenager. After…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in…
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
Ntwaesele "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a…
BiographyLungile Kepe
Born in 1927 Kepe worked as a labourer. He took part in the 1950 national strike on June 26th. He served a term of imprisonment during the Defiance Campaign…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London…
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
Arthur Elias Letele was born on 2nd October 1915 in Maseru, Lesotho. His father, Elias Letele, was a school inspector. His mother, Catherine, was of Xhosa…
BiographyCharles Makhohliso
Charles Makhohliso was born in 1918. As a trade unionist he was responsible for organising better conditions for brick workers. The Chairperson of the…
BiographyElmon Malele
Elmon Malele was born in Mapulaneng in the Limpopo Province (Transvaal) in 1920. Malele came to Johannesburg in 1943, and stayed in Alexandra township. He was…
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her early childhood. She attended the Thokoza Primary School and then…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…
BiographyDavid H Mgugunyeka
Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities.
BiographyVuyisile Mini
Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles,…
Nhlumba Bertha Mkhize
Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver, died when Bertha was about four years old. After his death her family…
BiographyFrank Modiba
Born in 1909 Modiba was a cabinetmaker. While a youngster in the Tzaneen district, he refused to tend the sheep of a European cattle farmer and received eight…
BiographyMartha Mohlakoane
Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 years. Mohlakoane joined the African National Congress in 1939…
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one…
BiographyLeslie Sonny Thuso Monnanyane
Monnanyane was born in 1928. He was a labourer. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) during the Defiance Campaign and became a prominent Orange Free…