Lives of courage

Truck driver and MK recruit at its launch in 1961

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Central Committee in Johannesburg, organizer for the Federa...

Former Executive Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement

Political activist, member of AZAPO, lecturer and minister in the Anglican Church.

Member of COSAS and ANC, Robben Island political prisoner, Secretary of the Central House Committee (UWC), Mayor and Loc...

Leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933, editor of the Party's newspaper, the South Afric...

Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress, accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, coal dealer and propert...

Teacher, assistant secretary of the Natal ANC, he led the first batch of Durban volunteers in the Defiance Campaign, mem...

ANC member in Newclare

Member of the ANC and office-bearer, National Executive Committee member of the Federation of South African Women, organ...

 

Political activist

Political activist, lawyer, journalist member of the SACP

Photographer and political activist

Author and zoologist, first women to recieve a doctorate from Stellenbosch University

Political activist

South African Council of Churches (SACC) worker, Group chairperson of Kagiso, co-founder and co-chairperson of Kagiso Tr...

Attorney, Member of Parliament for the National Party, Deputy Minister of Law and Order and of Constitutional Developmen...

Political Activist and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) colonel, prisoner on Robben Island.

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

Political Activist, Chair of the ANC in Alexandra, later joined the PAC

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

Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal and 1956 Treason Trialist

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