Lives of courage

Community activist, political prisoner, member of the United Democratic Front and the African National Congress, Cape To...

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

Teacher, lawyer, university lecturer, author, member of the NEUM, NIC, SACP, ANC and MK, Recipient of the Order Of Luthu...

ANC, Congress of Democrats, SACP and Umkhonto we Sizwe member, geologist

exile, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe

South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner

Visionary academic who inspired a generation of young activists (student's movements) and helped galvanize the labour mo...

Academic, Anthropologist, activist in various organizations, most notably the Detainees Parent Support Committee.

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa, specialised midwife, politically active in the Federation of South Africa...

Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...

Apartheid activist, Umkhonto we Sizwe operative

Member of the Communist Party in Cape Town and after her marriage became a member of the Natal India...

President of NUSAS, political activist, political detainee, banned person and exiled person.  

Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the...

Poet, Writer, Editor, Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, and Contributor for the Black Review, contributor to S...

Organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League and Trade Unionist.

Lawyer, journalist, author member of the SANNC, launched the SANNC newspaper, Abantu Batho, President-General of the ANC

Former South African High Commissioner to Mozambique, provincial secretary of the Federation of Transvaal Women, banned ...

Poet, novelist, writer and political prisoner

Chief of the Maphumulo tribe and first President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA)

Former South African ambassador to Denmark, Politician, member of the Soweto Youth Congress, ANC and MK

political prisoner, political detainee, banned person, member of SASO, died in detention

Medical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social Reform Society, Chair of the Mad...

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

An active trade unionist and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), she received military training in Angola and the Soviet U...

Member of Congress of Democrats and British Communist Party, member of the technical unit of the South African Communist...

ANC member, anti-apartheid activist, and political prisoner who went into exile in London. She was later assassinated in...

Teacher, attorney, political prisoner, General Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congr...

Teacher, social worker, political activist, political prisoner, banned person, trade unionist, founder member of the Con...

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

Trade unionist, political detainee, banned person, member of the ANC, ANCWL, SACP, FSAW and the UWO, Member of Parliamen...

Schoolteacher, anti-apartheid activist, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Founding member of the Liberal Party, Anti-apartheid activist, President of the Black Sash and Founding member of the Wo...

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

Judge-President of the Lands Claim Court; Member of the Eastern Cape Bar; Member of Independent Mediation Services of So...

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

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father l...

An activist in the South African freedom movement, Director of the United Nations (UN) Centre against Apartheid, author,...

Surveyor, lecturer and secretary of the COD, arrested for treason in 1956, trade union organiser, elected unop...

Anglican priest, author, one of the first recipients of the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award, Chair of the Trustees of the...