Arts & Humanities

Artist, teacher and playwright

Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist

Artist and painter

Poet, novelist, writer and political prisoner

British writer and journalist, editor of Drum magazine in Johannesburg during the 1950s

Artist, Poet and activist, member of the African National Congress (ANC); the South African Communist Party (SACP) and a...

South African writer, academic and literary critic

For her excellent contribution to music and putting South Africa on the international music map with her prolific musica...

Singer

Member of the ANC, helped draft the ANC's Code of Conduct and statutes, member of the Constitutional Committee and Natio...

South African jazz pianist, composer and journalist.

Teacher, journalist, theatre director, political activist, Chair of the Springbok Legion

South African writer.

Artist

Graphic artist and African National Congress (ANC) activist

The first photojournalist to expose to the world the stark realities of life under the Apartheid regime

Journalist and author

South African writer, academic, arts activist and African Humanist

Opera singer and Social Worker

Writer, editor of Drum magazine from 1955- 8 and publisher

Photographer, reporter, television and media producer

Musician, charged in the 1956 Treason Trial, involved in the Rivonia Trial, Robben Island prisoner and served as an MK c...

For his excellent contribution in photo journalism and placing the brutality of the Apartheid police in the internationa...

Edward Webster was born on 29 March 1942 and educated at Selborne College. He obtained a BA Honours degree and Universit...

A self-taught, award winning artist and photographer. Badsha played an active role in the South African liberation strug...

Musician

South African poet, painter, sculptor and academic

Lecturer, novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor

Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT

Investigative journalist

Poet, writer, painter and activist

Banned Person, pioneering South African publisher, university lecturer, author, cofounder of the publishing house, Ravan...

South African jazz trumpeter, 

South African jazz musician and a saxophone player

Photographer, co-founder of the Cape Town Press Centre, CEO of espAfrika, Festival Director of the Cape Town Internation...

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

Poet, Writer, Editor, Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, and Contributor for the Black Review, contributor to S...

Lawyer, journalist, author member of the SANNC, launched the SANNC newspaper, Abantu Batho, President-General of the ANC

Artist

Book collector, historian, writer and antiquarian