Feature biographies

Soldier, social research assistant, social worker, location superintendent member of the ANCYL, ANC, POQO and PAC, award...

medical doctor, exile, member of the Unity Movement of South Africa and the African Peoples Democratic Union of South Af...

Advocate, Queens Council, member of the Central Committee of the CPSA

Architect, anti-apartheid activist, member of the SACP, Treason trialist

Political activist, minister, chairman and founding official of SANROC, trade unionist, sportsman, educator. 

Priest, exiled person, post-Apartheid’s first Minister of Correctional Services, member of the ANC, IFP and the United D...

President, Witwatersrand University Students’ Representative Council, Deputy Vice-President, Nusas, Nusas  Chair, (Unive...

Political detainee, academic, author, minister of religion, theologian, thinker, President of the South African Council ...

Foremost historian of Cape slavery, Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New ...

Gordon Sprigg (1830-1913) was a British colonial administrator and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in four separate te...

Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied l...

Member of the Unity Movement of South Africa, Robben Island prisoner

Estate agent and Community leader

Itola (War-Doctor)

Pitika Ntuli is a sculptor, poet, writer and an academic who has contributed to the political and artistic discourse of ...

Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home...

Artist

Author, activist, civil servant, teacher, television producer

Historian

Medical specialist, professor, author, member of the Liberal Party, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the National Unio...

Socialist, organised shop assistants on the Witwatersrand into a trade union, honorary secretary of the Shop Assistants ...

Civil rights activist in the United States of America

The last king of the independent Zulu nation from 1872-1879

Travel agent, Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association, activist against the anti-Coloured Affairs Department  and memb...

Chief of the Bamokoteli

Former Executive Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement

Teacher, Assistant to the Rector of the University of the Western Cape, Provincial Secretary of the (UDF), National Secr...

South African Expressionist painter“My work is based on my experience of South Africa as a 'vast and terrifying prison' ...

Ballinger was a trade union organizer, member of the Joint Council movement, a representative of Africans in the Senate,...

Member of the Atlantic Charter Committee, Treasurer-general of the ANC, vice-president of the Non-European United Front ...

Sports administrator, teacher, political activist, poet and academic

Director of the SAIRR, writer, researcher, and editor, member of Senate

Community activist

Editor, Politician, Professor of Economics, Indian High Commissioner of India to South Africa from 1941 to 1944

Political and labour activist and former Minister for Posts and Broadcasting.

Politician and successful businessman

Chairman of the Orlando Branch (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign, ANC national executive committee, President of t...

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