Lives of Courage

Political activist and Treason Trialist involved in the Traansvaal Indian Congress, the Congress of the People, the 1946...

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

journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP

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

Assistant General Secretary of TUCSA, chairman of the Urban Training Project, university lecturer and banned person.

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat, AKM or “Doc” as he was popularly known, was one of the leading political activists in the N...

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

Trade unionist, member of SACTU

Political and women's activist and trade unionist

Politcal activist, member of ANC Women's League

Zolile Hamilton Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended...

Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, banned person

Trade unionist and shop steward for the Garment Workers’ Union, elected to the Transvaal executive of the African Nation...

Member of the ANC and MK and medical doctor

Member of the ANC and MK, Chief director of equal opportunities in the South African National Defence Force and Major Ge...

Artist and ex Robben Island political prisoner

Member of NOW, UDF, ANC and the Central Committee of the SACP. Delegate to the Codesa talks, Deputy Minister of Defence ...

Lecturer, journalist, author, for her contribution to the struggle for liberation, democracy and human rights, and for w...

Radiographer, literacy director of SASO, political prisoner, banned person

Physiotherapist, political prisoner

  Political activist, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, exiled person, active in the A...

Nurse, lecturer, consultant in development studies, National President of the YWCA of South Africa, Regional Director of...

President of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the then ‘non-European’ SRC at Nata...

Medical doctor, co-founder and first chairperson of the Anti-Segregation Council, President of the NIC

Member of the ANC, MK, SACP and Cosatu, Deputy President of the ANC, third President of democratic South Africa. 

Member of the SRC at University of Zululand, member of SASO, National Organiser BPC, President of AZAPO, Chairperson of ...

Dutch anti apartheid activist and Operation Vula Operative

Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 19...

Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at...

Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. N...

On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in de...

Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 197...

Mr William Nomodi Tshwane was reported to have been detained with other Soweto students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modd...

Political leader, journalist, editor and an organiser for the Natal Indian Congress, the Communist Party and the Congres...

Delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in Bucharest, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, trade unionist...

Writer, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member, banned person, politcal prisoner, exile,  recipient of The Or...

Mr Michael Shivute was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa po...

Mr Leong Pin died on 19 November 1966 after being detained on 18 Novemver 1966 at the Leeuwkop prison under the 180-day ...