Feature biographies

An activist in the South African freedom movement, Director of the United Nations (UN) Centre against Apartheid, author,...

First Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (now called Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Political activist, member of the TIYC and TIC, treasurer of FEDSAW, patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women, arrest...

Trade Unionist, Deputy President COSATU, member of the ANC and Member of Parliament, Minister of Human Settlements. 

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

Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister of Botswana and Assistant Attorney General in Botswana, Chairman...

Poet, book illustrator, artist, recipient of The National Order of Ikhamanga for excellence in the fields of arts and li...

Educator, politician, author, minister of the Congregational (American Board) Church, founder member and first president...

Artist

Politician, world-famed statesman, soldier, naturalist, philosopher and former Prime Minister of South Africa

South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and one of the foremost influences in Sou...

Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party, founding member of the F...

Member of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Author.

Political activist and a member of the African National Congress' armed wing, uMkhonto weSizwe and its National Executiv...

Lawyer and Chairman of the SACP

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

Feminist writer

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

Medical doctor, AAC Treasurer, President of the African National Congress from 1949 to 1952.

ANC President, a teacher and medical doctor.

Lawyer, political prisoner, Rivonia Trialist and exile

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

Academic, author, Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, the first black South African to hold this post in 102 years, Ed...

Journalist and author

Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mande...

General Secretary of the Garment Workers’ Industrial Union (GWIU), Secretary of the Furniture Workers` Industrial Union ...

South African photographer, politcal detainee and banned person

Vice President of the NIC,Member of the BC movement, Secretary of the BPC, Vice President of AZAPO, Vice Principal of UD...

Political activist and exile. A leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the African National Congress. Promi...

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

Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera...

Advocate,Human Rights lawyer, Senior Counsel at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg in the Constitutional Un...

Member of the African National Congress (ANC); Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and secretary of the Congress of Democrats in the ...

Leader of the NLL and NEUF, member of the FAC, advocate and representative on the Cape Town City Council.

Teacher, member of the South African Communist Party, first political detainee to die at the hands of the Security Polic...

South African pop singer

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

Cartoonist and activist

Albertina Sisulu 'the mother of the nation', activist and nurse, who has struggled for her whole life human rights and d...

Journalist and poet