Feature biographies

Director, actor and playwright

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

Artist

Journalist, trade unionist, attorney and political activist, Member of Parliament (Provincial), for his contribution to ...

Teacher, liberation leader, first president of Zimbabwe

Driver for the Boer commandos during the South African War, court interpreter, member of the Pretoria Location Advisory ...

Chief Justice of democratic South Africa, first President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, President of the ...

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) underground, prisoner on Robben Island, previous MEC for Limpopo’s Economi...

Journalist, trade unionist and member of the SACP and the ANC

Known as Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Second Boer War.

Political activist, Vice President of SACPO, journalist, lawyer and member of the PAC

Lawyer, judge and South African Prime Minister

Sugar farmer, Vice President of the NIC 

Political activist

Business person, NIC member, Joint Secretary of the SAIC 

 Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and South Afr...

Bishop and leader of St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove).

Politician and Freedom Fighter. Revolutionary leader of the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO and Mozambique's firs...

Teacher, court interpreter, minister and first President-General of the ANC

Clerk, miner, founding member and secretary of the African Mineworkers' Union. Organizing secretary of the Orlando branc...

Trade unionist, ANC Treasurer-General, member of the SACP

Dutch Reformed Church Minister, editor, National Party leader and First Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, 194...

Organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. Participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. Elected secretary of the Tr...

Graphic artist and African National Congress (ANC) activist

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

Trade unionist, member of the national council of Non-European United Front, member of the Central Committee of the Sout...

A businessperson, played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for partic...

Political activist and Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).

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

Teacher, farmer, secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council, secretary of the Passive Resistance Council of the Natal Ind...

Lawyer, secretary of the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council. Member of the executive committee of both the Natal India...

Member of AZASO, ANC and MK, death row political prisoner, Ekurhuleni Metro Police Commissioner

Teacher, medical practitioner, National Secretary of the ANC, author.

Businessman, Transvaal President of the ANC and defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial

Member of the ANC and SACP, Chairperson of the Garment Workers Union, Treasurer of the Transvaal affiliate of the Africa...

Student activist, British Labour Party adviser on Africa and the Middle East and served on the executive of the Anti-Apa...

A British Businessman in South Africa, Member of Parliament in the Cape Colony, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, imper...

Passive resister, political prisoner, President of the Natal Indian Congress, Vice President of the Transvaal Indian Con...

Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa and author

Politician, journalist, teacher and president of the South African Native National Congress, 1917-24.