Community

Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age...

For his selfless act in saving a person from drowning at Warner Beach outside Durban, van Staden was awarded the Order o...

business person and philanthropist, assisted in establishing Howard College, responsible for starting the South African ...

Clerk, Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown, chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s, Chairma...

Leading Catholic priest and political activist, currently Mayor of Tshwane.

Judge, first permanently appointed Black person to the Supreme Court of Appeal, President of the Supreme Court of Appeal...

South African Appeal Court judge.

Cassim Mahomed Lakhi was the youngest son of Mahomed Lakhi and his wife, Hawa Bibi, who were both born in India. They ar...

LGBTQI+ activist, member of the South African national women’s soccer team (Banyana Banyana)

clergyman and Author

Chief of the AmaZondi Chieftaincy and leader of the Bhambatha Rebellion of 1906

Missionary

Author, educator and first female principal of Huguenot University College

President of NUSAS, founder member of the Liberal Party, Chancellor of UDW, Judge of the Natal Provincial Division, memb...

Chief of the Mpondos

Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amh...

Deputy President Constitutional Court, Deputy Chief Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, and Chief Justice...

Bishop and leader of St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove).

Flora is a mother, grandmother, church elder, foster mother to 9 AIDS orphans, and manager of 8 voluntary HIV/AIDS careg...

Maria Ndlovu is a mother of two, a rape survivor, a PWA (person living with AIDS) and a GIPA (UN Programme for the Great...

Transkeian Chief

Chief Minister of former KwaNdebele homeland and founder member of the Intando Yesizwe Party, Founder member of CONTRALE...

A former Advocate,  a former member of the Democratic Lawyers Association, Durban Detainees' Support Committee, Durban H...

Leader of the Khoi people, banished person

Political activist, minister, chairman and founding official of SANROC, trade unionist, sportsman, educator. 

Anglican Priest, Anti Apartheid Activist, Founder of the International Defence and Aid Fund, (IDAF). 

athlete, cricketer, established a branch of NUSAS at Stellenbosch University, Vice-President, National Secretary for Eco...

Enslaved person, school master and healer at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town.

David Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He matriculated from Khumbula High School. He obtai...

Teacher, who was resistant to the Boputhatswana Homeland government and arrested on several occasions, appointed Distric...

Estate agent and Community leader

Reverend and founder of the independent Ethiopian Church in South Africa

Businessman

Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the govern...

Chief

His real name was Charles Rawden Maclean and he had run away to sea at the age of 12.

first the black women to train and qualify as a nurse in the Eastern Cape, community health worker, Chief

Entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist

Gardener; Farmer; British missionary

Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa