Arts & Humanities

Social anthropologist, academic, member of the SAIRR and the Progressive Party

Journalist

Teacher, member of SASO and the ANC, head of the Medu Arts Ensemble (Gaborone), Member of COSAW, Secretary General of th...

Artist

Photographer and a member of Afrapix

Scriptwriter, theatre director, poet, cultural worker and activist, trade unionist, conductor of creative writing worksh...

Visual artist

Musician 

South African artist.

Ceramicist

Political activist, academic, journalist, playwright, poet

The musician and political activist Mzwakhe Mbuli has played an essential role in the musical culture of South Africa be...

Photographer, Afrapix member  

World War II soldier, Advocate, Queens Counsel, British Knighthood Recipient and Recipient of the South African Order of...

Member of the Lenin Club, Founder member of the Non European Unity Movement and Author.

Journalist, trade unionist,  member of the  Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)  activist, member of the ANC and MK, Depu...

Musician, founder member of the Daughters of Africa and wife of John Langalibalele Dube. 

Journalist and author

Singer and songwriter

Artist and ex Robben Island political prisoner

Singer and Actress

Fine Artist and Poet

journalist, librarian, poet, writer, editor and painter

Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmoth...

editor of the Women’s section of the Cape Times

Activist, Zimbabwe liberation leader, writer

Artist

This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary pho...

South African painter and teacher.

Academic, writer, Research Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, political activist, feminist, queer rights a...

Former journalist, exposed policeman involved in Steve Biko’s death, ANC member, recipient of the Government’s National ...

Member of the ANC, SACP and MK, author and columnist

Anti-Apartheid activist, UDF activist, progressive media and cultural activist, documentary photographer, member of phot...

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

Editor and political activist, member of the NIC and son of Mahatma Gandhi.

Historian and lecturer

Architect

President of the Grahamstown branch of the South African Association of University Women

Musician

First Black matron for the Natal Provincial Administration