Feature biographies

Teacher, lecturer, banned person, author, advocate of multilingualism in post-apartheid South Africa, a strong proponent...

Natal Indian Congress, United Democratic Front and African National Congress activist, medical doctor, academic, researc...

Minister of Education (1999 – 2004), Minister of Water Affairs,(1994 – 1999) and a member of Parliament in the National ...

lawyer, founder of the Natal Indian Congress, political prisoner, leader of the Indian community in South Africa, politi...

South African politician and the founder and President Emeritus of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).

Poet

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

Member of the African Resistance Movement, ANC and SACP.  

Trade unionist and political activist, member of the ICU, CPSA and the ANC

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

Academic and writer

President of South Africa, first deputy president in the new Government of National Unity.

Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe and General-Secretary of the SACP.

A Leading member of Congress of Democrats and political activist who was sentenced with Mandela and others to life impri...

Teacher, political activist,  trade unionist, banned person, political prisoner, exile, President of the Transvaal ...

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

Political Activist.

Journalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee, political prisoner and defendant i...

Assistant editor of Ilanga lase Natal,editor of Inkundla ya Bantu, co-authored  the ANC Youth League Manifesto of 1944, ...

Author, journalist, anti-apartheid activist, co-founded the Africa Bureau, first person to record the ANC’s history

King of the Zulus (1828 – 1840)

Chairman of the Student Christian Movement, member of SASO and BPC, former Secretary-General of the ANC, first secretary...

Teacher, lawyer, President and National Chairperson of the ANC.

Shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, helped organise...

Founder and first commander of Cape Town, South Africa. van Riebeeck was an Administrator of the Dutch East India Compan...

Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.

Minister of Defence and Military veterans, Former anti-apartheid guerilla, Chairperson of the National Council of Provin...

Medical doctor, community activist and author.

Trade unionist, member of the NIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Assistant Secretary of the Natal Indian Farmers Union, accused in t...

Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known as Mahatma Gandhi, has not been studied much in works on G...

Lawyer, instrumental in the founding of the Ossewa-Brandwag, and also became a general in its paramilitary wing, Ministe...

Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of...

Member of the Ministerial Task Team that drafted the Labour Relations Bill for the post-apartheid era, first chairperson...

Peace activist, Social Worker, Founder of Natal Organisation of Women,  member of the NIC, ANC and the UDF, Member ...

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

Commander of the covert SA Police unit based at Vlakplaas

Parliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.

Chair of the Greyville Branch of the NIC, NIC delegate to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, Member of the NIC, MK, A...

State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1990 he opened negotiations with previously banned anti-apartheid ...

South African academic, African National Congress politician, Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN