Lives of courage

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

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

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

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 ...

Political activist, President of SSRC

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

Robert Cedric Wilcox - a member of the NEUM/Unity Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s D...

Petros Sipho Mkhize was born on the 20 January 1938 and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is do...

Member of Non European Unity Movement (NEUM), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, poet, and author

Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Tr...

A self-taught, award winning artist and photographer. Badsha played an active role in the South African liberation strug...

Organiser for the African Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, member of the ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, Treasur...

Musician

Member of SASO, the UDF, the ANC and COPE.  Political prisoner, Politician, President and Leader of the Congress of...

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

Trade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist

Member of NUSAS, member of the ANC, Trade unionist, General Secretary and  Education secretary of FOSATU, Minister ...

Politician and anti-apartheid activist, Treason Trialist and President of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's Le...

General secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the African National Congress 

Chairman of Military Committee in Maputo, Robben island prisoner, exile, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC Representative ...

Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT

Lecturer, lawyer, author, trade union and labour activist.

Teacher, ANC President-General, 1956 Treason Trialist, banned person and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Dikkie Mxolisi Johannes Jacobs, an active member of a youth organisation in Upington, Northern Cape, was detained on 15 ...

Participated in the Defiance Campaign in 1952, which led to her being banned,  worked underground with the FEDSAW, ...

MK commander, murdered by South African Security Police members

Clerk, teacher, workers’ leader, treason trialist, banished person, member of the ANC, SACTU, SACP and PAC.

Member of the TIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Member of Parliament, recipient of The National Order of Luthuli in Silver

Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa was South Africa’s Ambassador to the Republic of France.

ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of...

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

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

Member of the ANC and MK, political prisoner, National Chairperson MKVA and former advisor to the Minister of Defence.

Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, South African Communist Pa...

Poet, writer, painter and activist

Banned Person, pioneering South African publisher, university lecturer, author, cofounder of the publishing house, Ravan...

Medical Doctor, Cape Muslim leader & founder of the anti-apartheid movement, African People's Organisation and human...

Trade unionist, early member of SACTU, member of the CPSA and was the chair of the Durban District Committee from 1...

Teacher, shopkeeper, member of the ANC and SACP, community activist

“If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is darkness and oppression. Outs...