Connections
Treason Trial 1956 - 1961
80 PEOPLE
- Philemon MashibiniANC member. Was active in the Defiance Campaign of 1952
- W MatiMember of the African National Congress, imprisoned during the 1952 Defiance Campaign
- Temba D. A. MqotaJoined African National Congress in 1946 and supported the Indian struggle against the …
- Joseph MpozaBorn in 1926, Joseph Mpoza was shop assistant. He played a leading role in Worcester…
- Simon P. MkalipiAccused in the 1956 Treason Trial, worked as a cigarette salesman in Port Elizabeth and…
- Balelekeng Sam MasemolaMember of the ANC. Active in anti-pass campaign
- Joshua MakueTeacher, tailor and member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. Participated…
- Andries (General China) ChamileANC member and 1956 Treason trialist
- Douglas Chadwick ThompsonReligious leader, Treason Trialist, Political activist and political detainee
- John Kgwana NkadimengShop steward at African Tobacco Workers' Union, served on SACTU's executive committee,…
- Ben TurokSurveyor, lecturer and secretary of the COD, arrested for treason in 1956, trade union…
- Narainsamy Thumbi Naicker Teacher, attorney, political prisoner, General Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress and…
- Elias Phakane MoretseleBusinessman, Transvaal President of the ANC and defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial
- Kesval “Kay” MoonsamyVice President of the Natal Indian Congress, member of the South African Congress of…
- Joseph Sallie MolefiBanished person, journalist, organiser during the 1952 Defiance Campaign, 1956 Treason…
- Ida Fiyo MntwanaFirst president of the African National Congress Women’s League, elected to the ANC…
- Nzimeni Elliot MfaxaNzimeni Elliot Mfaxa was born August 26, 1926 at KwaGusha Farm in Somerset West. He was…
- Pious Goodman MeiMember of the African National Congress, organising secretary of the African Textile…
- Nelson Rolihlahla MandelaLawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in…
- Mbuyiselo Stanley VanqaMember of the African National Congress
- Joe SlovoMember of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats,…
- Debi SinghTeacher, farmer, secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council, secretary of the Passive…
- Motsamai Keyecwe MphoMember of the ANC, 1956 Treason Trialist, founder member of the Bechuanaland People’s…
- Obed Tseko MotshabiBorn in 1925, Motshabi worked as a clerk. He took part in the 1944 Alexandra Township bus…
- Joseph MorolongMember of the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the ANC,defendant in the 1956…
- Leslie Sonny Thuso MonnanyaneProminent Orange Free State ANC leader
- Patrick Mosell MolaoaBorn in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in…
- Martha MohlakoaneANC member and a leader of Orange Free State women in the anti-pass campaign
- Frank ModibaANC delegate at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- Nhlumba Bertha MkhizePolitical Activist, teacher and business owner.
- Vuyisile MiniTrade unionist, Secretary of SACTU, member of ANC and MK, singer and one of the first ANC…
- David H MgugunyekaBorn 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and…
- Ismail Chota MeerJournalist, trade unionist, attorney and political activist, Member of Parliament …
- C. J. MayekisoBorn in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became…
- Zachariah Keodirelang MatthewsSouth African academic, African National Congress politician, Botswana's first ambassador…
- Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe MatthewsAssistant Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister of Botswana and Assistant…
- Florence MatomelaTeacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of…
- Philemon MatholeOrganiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. Participated in the Defiance Campaign of…
- Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.
- Elmon MaleleA member of the African National Congress (ANC), Malele was an activist involved in the…
- Charles MakhohlisoTrade unionist, Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the African…
- Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa, volunteer in the South African Armed…
- Chief Albert John Mvumbi LuthuliTeacher, ANC President-General, 1956 Treason Trialist, banned person and Nobel Peace…
- Norman LevyMember of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of…
- Leon LevyTrade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist
- Dr Arthur Elias LeteleDoctor and ANC member
- Leonard (Len) Lee-WardenLinotype operator and printer of The Guardian, Lee-Warden was elected as Native…
- Alex la GumaWriter, member of the SACP, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation …
- Moses Mauane KotaneGeneral secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the…
- Jerry Dibanhlele KhumaloANC member and political activist