Lives of courage

Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in Chief, 1956 Treason Trialist, R...

Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothi...

Hastings Ndlovu was a fifteen-year-old boy during the Soweto Uprising in 1976. He is widely believed to be the first boy...

Teacher, lecturer, lawyer,  Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC branch in Standerton, founding...

Trade unionist, General Secretary of the South African Coloured People's Organisation, Secretary of the Franchise Action...

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

Trade union, community and political activist, member of CRADORA. One of the ‘Cradock Four’ murdered by the South Africa...

Matthew Goniwe was born on 27 December 1947 in Lingelihle Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His ...

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

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

Executive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, founder member of the South African Congress of Tr...

Political Activist.

Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-196...

Taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town, charged for sedition in 1946 mineworkers strike, m...

Mabhida was an outstanding leader of humble origins who became a dominant figure in the trade union movement, the Africa...

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Poet, novelist, writer and political prisoner

Muslim cleric, killed in police detention

Community activist, member of the Ratepayers’ Association of Merebank, participated in protests and demonstrations. 

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

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

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

Musician, charged in the 1956 Treason Trial, involved in the Rivonia Trial, Robben Island prisoner and served as an MK c...

Teacher, journalist, theatre director, political activist, Chair of the Springbok Legion

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johan...

Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Worke...

Attorney, Founder member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, later ANC), Vice-Chairman of the Provisio...

Writer, editor of Drum magazine from 1955- 8 and publisher

Nurse, chairperson of the George Goch branch of the ANCYL, founder member of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the ...

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

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...

Founding member of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), UDF Secretary for the Transvaal region, ANC member and the...

Teacher, author, member of the African National Congress  and a member of the South African Communist Party 

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP), Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Commander...

Natal Provincial Secretary of the ANC Youth League, lawyer, 1956 Treason trialist, Director of the Luthuli Memorial Foun...

Robben Island prisoner, exile person, Chairperson, Southern Natal Region of the ANC, member of the SACP and MK , Secreta...

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

"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he...

Student Activist, one of the first students to be killed in the 1976 student rebellion in Soweto, Johannesburg

Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the ...