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AIDS Activist and Children’s Advocate

Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of ...

Outspoken critic of apartheid, teacher, author, lecturer, Nobel Prize winner, former Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop...

Teacher, shopkeeper, member of the ANC and SACP, community activist

“If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is darkness and oppression. Outs...

Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had ...

Attorney, university lecturer, first woman to open her own law practice in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal),  first Black woman...

Chief of the Maphumulo tribe and first President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA)

Former South African ambassador to Denmark, Politician, member of the Soweto Youth Congress, ANC and MK

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

Medical doctor.

Cricketer, Medical Doctor and South African Administrator of the United Cricket Board.

Feminist writer

Political activist, former treasurer of the United Democratic Front, Judge and Law Expert.

Activist. Azapo Comrade. Doctor. Cricketer. Humanitarian. Health Secretary of Azapo, President of the Transvaal Cri...

Activist and advocator of equality, human rights, gay rights and health and HIV/aids rights. Cameron is a practicing law...

Muslim cleric, killed in police detention

Educationist, first African Chancellor of the University of the North and Author.

Community leader

 Women’s rights activist, gay rights activist, anti-apartheid activist

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Tr...

King of the Zulus (1828 – 1840)

Daughter, activist and poet

Member of the Companions Catholic Order, helped form local women’s organisations in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was...

Leader of the former homeland of Transkei between 1963-1985, Eastern Cape

Feminist, lecturer, journalist, trade unionist, founded higher education for Black and Indian students in Natal, awarded...

Professor, neurologist, psychiatrist, human rights activist, led the medical ethics inquiry into the death of Steve Biko...

Anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the United Democratic Front (UDF).

British welfare campaigner who is primarily remembered for her work related to British concentration camps in South Afri...

Actress and teacher

Advocate, academic, judge of the Appellate Division and the Constitutional Court, Chair of the Electoral Commission and ...

Community worker. 

Scottish and a wife of Tiyo Soga a South Africa Presbyterian.

South African rugby union player, DHL Stormers and Springbok captain.

Teacher, civil servant, novelist, poet, playwright, women’s activist, awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze for...

Feminist, anti-apartheid activist, human rights activist, trade unionist, author, writer, teacher, initiated the ‘Women’...

Religious leader, Treason Trialist, Political activist and political detainee

Member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, veterinarian, worked on the African National Congress farm...

Teacher, Principal, Bishop suffragan of the Diocese of the St Johns in the Transkei, President of the World Council of C...

Political activist, Black business pioneer, community leader and altruistic medical practitioner