African National Congress (ANC)

Jonathan Shapiro

Jonathan Shapiro

3 November 2023

Cartoonist and activist

African National Congress Timeline 1910-1919

African National Congress Timeline 1910-1919

27 October 2023

This period was characterized by events leading up to the formation of the African National Congress in 1912 as well as ...

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

27 October 2023

Albertina Sisulu 'the mother of the nation', activist and nurse, who has struggled for her whole life human rights and d...

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

Jeremy Patrick Cronin

Deputy General Secretary of SACP, Deputy Minister of Transport, theorist, poet and skilful writer. University Lecturer

Josiah Tshangana Gumede

Josiah Tshangana Gumede

Political activist, founder member of the Natal Native Congress and founder member of the South African Native National ...

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

ANC Political Activist

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

Josiah Khiphusizi Jele

African National Congress (ANC) Director of International Affairs, ANC’s political commissar in Tanzania and Ambassador ...

Bantu Holomisa

Major General (retired) of the Transkei Defence Force, Chairman of the Military Council of Transkei, leader of the Trans...

Denis Theodore Goldberg

Denis Theodore Goldberg

A Leading member of Congress of Democrats and political activist who was sentenced with Mandela and others to life impri...

J B Marks

Teacher, political activist,  trade unionist, banned person, political prisoner, exile, President of the Transvaal ...

Curtis Nkondo

3 February 2023

School principal, President of AZAPO, Member of the ANC, the first Deputy President of SADTU, South African Diplomat

Fred Carneson

20 January 2023

Journalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee, political prisoner and defendant i...

Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa

18 November 2022

Chairman of the Student Christian Movement, member of SASO and BPC, former Secretary-General of the ANC, first secretary...

Oliver Tambo

28 October 2022

Teacher, lawyer, President and National Chairperson of the ANC.

Rahima Moosa

21 October 2022

Shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, helped organise...

Janet Mary Cherry

Janet Mary Cherry

14 October 2022

General Secretary of the National Union of South African Students, Member of the United Democrat

Professor Fatima Meer

Professor Fatima Meer

Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.

African National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010

African National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010

During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Signific...

Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis)

21 February 2022

Vice-President of NUSAS, President of NUSWEL, member of the executive committee of the Industrial Aid Society ...

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

6 December 2021

Chair of the Greyville Branch of the NIC, NIC delegate to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, Member of the NIC, MK, A...

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)

20 September 2021

The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is a political party whose presence in the South African political landscape spans jus...

Gill Marcus

Member of the African National Congress, business woman, Governor of the Reserve Bank.

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

Nurse, midwife, lawyer and member of the UDF and NOW

Harry Themba Gwala

Harry Themba Gwala

Teacher, member of SACTU, SACP and ANC.

South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

In 1952, Whites who identified themselves with the aspirations of those who participated in the Defiance Campaign formed...

The Founding of the SANNC

The Founding of the SANNC

After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South Africa...

Poomoney Moodley

Poomoney Moodley

Communist, political activist, 90 day detainee

Benjamin Johnson Langa

Secretary General and Cultural Officer of SASO, political activist, poet, member of MK and the ANC

African National Congress Timeline 1980-1989

African National Congress Timeline 1980-1989

The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside South Africa. Conversely, the...

Joseph Johannes Marks

Joseph Johannes Marks

Political activist, member of ANC, MK, UDF and SACP, Democratic Party Member of Parliament, Vice President of UDF

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

Banned person, Robben Island prisoner, Member of Parliament, Executive and Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay M

Brian Percy Bunting

Brian Percy Bunting

Journalist, Native Representative in the House of Assembly,Western Cape, chief editor of the Guardian, editor of the Afr...

Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada

Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada

A veteran of the South African liberation struggle, Treason Trialist, long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island a...

Arthur Goldreich

Arthur Goldreich

22 January 2021

Artist, industrial designer, architect, member of MK, political prisoner and lecturer

Mary Moodley

7 December 2020

Member of the SACPO, ANC, SACTU, FAWU and FEDSAW, trade union organiser, banned person

Letsau Nelson Diale

Letsau Nelson Diale

25 November 2020

Community activist, MK member, Member of Parliament, for his excellent contribution to the struggle against apartheid an...

Ethel de Keyser

Ethel de Keyser

25 November 2020

Artist and underground ANC activist

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

25 November 2020

ANC member, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Health, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chair of the African Union

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

Pamela dos Santos (nee Beira)

25 November 2020

Politcal activist, member of ANC Women's League

Barbara Anne Hogan

Barbara Anne Hogan

23 November 2020

Member of the ANC, Political prisoner, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister.