Lives of courage

Deputy President of NUSAS, political prisoner, Member of the ANC and the UCM, Scholar and Academic, member of the South ...

ANC and PAC Member, Robben Island prisoner

Trade unionist, member of the SACP, political activist, political prisoner, banned person and exile.

Member of NOW, UDF, ANC and the Central Committee of the SACP. Delegate to the Codesa talks, Deputy Minister of Defence ...

Political activist, political prisoner, imprisoned  during  the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign and the 1952 Campaign...

Lecturer, journalist, author, for her contribution to the struggle for liberation, democracy and human rights, and for w...

nurse, member of the African National Congress (ANC), participated in  the Defiance Campaign 1952 and the  Wom...

A member of South African Congress of Democrats (COD), and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Radiographer, literacy director of SASO, political prisoner, banned person

Banned person.

Anti-apartheid activist, co-founding member of the BCM, member of SASO, banned for five years, women’s rights activist, ...

Physiotherapist, political prisoner

  Political activist, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, exiled person, active in the A...

Political activist, political prisoner and nurse. 

  Political prisoner, took part in passive resistance.

Member of the ANC and MK, political detainee

Member of the NEUM and TLSA, Editor of the Educational Journal, teacher political activist, political detainee, member o...

Arrested and detained for political activities

Member of the African National Congress, member of the Executive Committee of the Black People’s Convention, founding me...

Nurse, lecturer, consultant in development studies, National President of the YWCA of South Africa, Regional Director of...

journalist, news editor, political prisoner

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) and the Black Sash, political prisoner, worked at Defence and Aid, ...

political activist, member of the South African Communist Party, lecturer, author, gender activist, played a key part i...

Participated in the Indian miners’ strike of 1913, political prisoner. 

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) and the Ashley Kriel Detachment, Cape You...

Anti-apartheid activist, COD and ANC member, journalist, launched the ANC women section’s first bulletin- Voice of Women...

Trade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the National Executive Committe...

Trade unionist, participated in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, Vice-President of the Transvaal Indian Congress, member of t...

Youngest member of the Broederbond, Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, moderator of the Southern Transvaal DRC synod...