Feature biographies

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.

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

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...

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

Teacher, lawyer, university lecturer, author, member of the NEUM, NIC, SACP, ANC and MK, Recipient of the Order Of Luthu...

Journalist, editor, lecturer, lawyer, radio programme producer, member of the ANC, politician and former speaker of the ...

exile, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe

South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner

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

Visionary academic who inspired a generation of young activists (student's movements) and helped galvanize the labour mo...

Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...

Member of the Communist Party in Cape Town and after her marriage became a member of the Natal India...

Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the...

Lawyer, journalist, author member of the SANNC, launched the SANNC newspaper, Abantu Batho, President-General of the ANC

Former South African High Commissioner to Mozambique, provincial secretary of the Federation of Transvaal Women, banned ...

South African artist and musician

Medical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social Reform Society, Chair of the Mad...

Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto. Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. ...

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

Politcal activist and newspaper publisher

Teacher, attorney, political prisoner, General Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congr...

Teacher, social worker, political activist, political prisoner, banned person, trade unionist, founder member of the Con...

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

Artist

editor, poet, author, recipient of Olive Schreiner Award

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