Feature biographies

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

"I am not a herald of community or anything else. I am someone who has intimations of freedom (as every chained prisoner...

Minister of the Congregational Church, President of the South African Native Convention, he led a deputation to London t...

Activist and Martyr. Died as a result of her participation in the South African liberation struggle.

Nurse, midwife, lawyer and member of the UDF and NOW

Teacher, member of SACTU, SACP and ANC.

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

Anti-apartheid activist; teacher; during the Passive Resistance Campaign in 1946, she and Mrs Thayanayagie Pillay, organ...

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

Communist, political activist, 90 day detainee

Trade unionist, member of the SACP, NLL and ANC

Lawyer, trade unionist, organiser for the NLL, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (C...

Founder of the ICU and National secretary. Trade Unionist and Political Activist.

Teacher, miner, journalist, General Secretary of the CPSA, Editor of CPSA paper, Inkululeko, Member of the Afr...

Member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, veterinarian, worked on the African National Congress farm...

Member of South African Student Organisation, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, community-based organizer, De...

Anti-apartheid activist, human rights lawyer, member of the Unity Movement, Western Cape UDF Chairman,  political d...

Political activist, academic and member of APDUSA and Unity Movement

Journalist, Native Representative in the House of Assembly,Western Cape, chief editor of the Guardian, editor of the Afr...

A veteran of the South African liberation struggle, Treason Trialist, long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island a...

King of the Zulus

Teacher, lecturer, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF), founder member o...

Documentary photographer

Founder and leading theoretician of the Non-European Unity Movement

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

Teacher and political activist, involved in the South African Indian Congress, Treasurer of the United Democratic Front,...

Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa, volunteer in the South African Armed Forces, appointed King’s Counsel (KC...

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat, AKM or “Doc” as he was popularly known, was one of the leading political activists in the N...

Founder member of the Liberal Study Group, elected secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa in Durban, member of...

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

Political and women's activist and trade unionist

Journalist

The first registered professional Black nurse in South Africa, early activist in the struggle for women’s rights and pro...

Important figure in the history of Satyagraha (passive resistance) in South Africa, member of the Executive of the Trans...

Campaigner for Indian rights

Teacher, lecturer, member of UDF and President of NOW, ANC politician and Deputy President of South Africa.  

A suffragette and civil rights activist of the Cape Colony.

Activist, Teacher, Director: Research coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation at Department of Basic Education. 

Editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.

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