Community

For her outstanding contribution to the development of women through the Women in Agriculture and Rural Development (WAA...

music lecturer,  founder of the Young Citizen’s Orchestra, served on executive council of the Johannesburg Music So...

Teacher and headmistress

Singer and educationist

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

Important figure in the history of Satyagraha (passive resistance) in South Africa, member of the Executive of the Trans...

Campaigner for Indian rights

Jeanie Noel was born in Durban as one of twelve children, however her family was fortunate enough to own prope...

Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape...

Tempo started off working by looking after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began h...

First female judge to be appointed permanently to the appellate division of the South African Supreme Court.

Drama teacher.

Community activist, member of the Ratepayers’ Association of Merebank, participated in protests and demonstrations. 

School teacher and Honorary Life President of the Black Sash. 

Former Miss South Africa, television personality, fashion icon, media mogul, business woman, philanthropist and wife to ...

Khiosan chief, community leader, political activist, trade unionist

Journalist and author

King of the Zulus.

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

Hairdresser, drag queen, District Six cultural icon

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

Community activist, anti-apartheid activist, founding member of the UDF, first president of the Uitenhage Women’s Organi...

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

Pastor, member of the UDF and the ANC, Director-General in the Office of the President; Senior Research Fellow in the De...

Olive Schreiner’s elder sister, founder of “The Highlands” home, member of Women’s Temperance Union

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

Youngest member of the Broederbond, Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, moderator of the Southern Transvaal DRC synod...

A Khoikhoi woman

Teacher.

A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto ...

History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement o...

A Khoi woman who worked as a domestic servant in the Van Riebeeck house and a translator for the Dutch authorities. Her ...

Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the...

Theologian, educationalist, community leader, anti-apartheid activist, member of the Federal Theological Seminary, UDF, ...

Anti-apartheid activist, member of SACP, MYS, and ANC, secretary of Joint Congress Committee, served on the Treason Tria...

Former Secretary-General of the ANC (1936-1949), political activist and Anglican clergyman

Renowned traditional healer, author, artist and philosopher.

A priest part of the South African Council of Churches (SACC).

Trained interpreter and Khoisan leader in the mid 1600s. He led the Khoikhoi in the first Khoikhoi-Dutch war.

In summary: lawyer, judge, prosecutor, ordained pastor, academic and Chief Justice of South Africa