Feature biographies

Lawyer, President of the NIC, banned, politcal detainee, member of the UDF

Activist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of Parliament.

Political activist, founder member of the Natal Native Congress and founder member of the South African Native National ...

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

Activist, one of the first Black women graduates in South Africa and one of the first Black South Africans to fight for ...

Executive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, founder member of the South African Congress of Tr...

Secretary of the Port Elizabeth branch of the SACP, Member of the ANC and Rivonia Trialist, ANC National Executive Commi...

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

Journalist and author

Member of the ANC NEC, acting National General Secretary for the UDF and former Minister of Envi ronmental affairs and T...

Member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of Democrats (COD), sat on the South Afric...

Voortrekker, politician, President of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) from, prominent social and political figure, k...

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

Secretary of the Pretoria branch of the TIC, involved the Indian Passive Resistance Movement, member of the executives o...

Political Activist.

Graphic artist and African National Congress (ANC) activist

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johan...

Member of the ANC, member of the executive committee of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), defend...

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

Communist intellectual and organiser, Sydney Bunting was instrumental in the formation and early development of the Comm...

Founding member of the Theatre Council of Natal (TECON), close associate of Steve Biko, SASO Publications Director , reg...

Academic, South African Prime Minister, considered to be the primary architect of apartheid 

Teacher, author, member of the African National Congress  and a member of the South African Communist Party 

Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in Chief, 1956 Treason Trialist, R...

Robert Cedric Wilcox - a member of the NEUM/Unity Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s D...

Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Tr...

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

Teacher, lecturer, lawyer,  Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC branch in Standerton, founding...

Member of the ANC and MK, Deputy-Secretary General of the ANC, Deputy President of South Africa, President of South Afri...

General secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the African National Congress 

Chairman of Military Committee in Maputo, Robben island prisoner, exile, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC Representative ...

Teacher, ANC President-General, 1956 Treason Trialist, banned person and Nobel Peace Prize winner

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

Member of the TIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Member of Parliament, recipient of The National Order of Luthuli in Silver

ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of...

Member of AZASO,FEDTRAW, UDF and ANC.

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, South African Communist Pa...

Poet, writer, painter and activist

Trade unionist, early member of SACTU, member of the CPSA and was the chair of the Durban District Committee from 1...