Lives of Courage

Trade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist

Member of the ANC and MK, Deputy-Secretary General of the ANC, Deputy President of South Africa, President of South Afri...

Politician and anti-apartheid activist, Treason Trialist and President of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's Le...

General secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the African National Congress 

Member of the TIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Member of Parliament, recipient of The National Order of Luthuli in Silver

ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of...

Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in Chief, 1956 Treason Trialist, R...

Teacher, lawyer, university lecturer, author, member of the NEUM, NIC, SACP, ANC and MK, Recipient of the Order Of Luthu...

Academic, Anthropologist, activist in various organizations, most notably the Detainees Parent Support Committee.

President of NUSAS, political activist, political detainee, banned person and exiled person.  

Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the...

Teacher, social worker, political activist, political prisoner, banned person, trade unionist, founder member of the Con...

Trade unionist, political detainee, banned person, member of the ANC, ANCWL, SACP, FSAW and the UWO, Member of Parliamen...

Political activist, member of the TIYC and TIC, treasurer of FEDSAW, patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women, arrest...

Anglican priest, author, one of the first recipients of the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award, Chair of the Trustees of the...

Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party, founding member of the F...

Writer, member of the SACP, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the 19...

Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mande...

Vice President of the NIC,Member of the BC movement, Secretary of the BPC, Vice President of AZAPO, Vice Principal of UD...

Activist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of Parliament.

Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera...

Natal Indian Congress, United Democratic Front and African National Congress activist, medical doctor, academic, researc...

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

banned person, political prisoner, Member of SASO, BPC and BCP, medical doctor, academic, anthropologist, Vice Chancello...

Political activist and former PAC secretary general.

Teacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of the African National Congress Wom...

Author, journalist, anti-apartheid activist, co-founded the Africa Bureau, first person to record the ANC’s history

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

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

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

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...

Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the Afric...

Lawyer, banned person, trade union advisor,  member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, advi...

Parliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.

Journalist, a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists and a member of the Writer’s Association of South Africa...

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

Political activist, academic and member of APDUSA and Unity Movement

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