Lives of courage

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

President of the Medical Students Representative Council at University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), membe...

Teacher and farmer, wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli, community leader, involved in the ANC and Daughters of Africa.

President of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the then ‘non-European’ SRC at Nata...

Anti-apartheid activist, feminist, member of SASO, the BCM, the BPC, and AZAPO, banned for three years

Member of the national executive committee of the ANC, leader of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra Township,  Treasurer-...

Medical doctor, co-founder and first chairperson of the Anti-Segregation Council, President of the NIC

Member of the ANC, MK, SACP and Cosatu, Deputy President of the ANC, third President of democratic South Africa. 

member of the TIYC, TIC and the ANC, Coordinator of the Somafco Collection, Batlagae Trust, worked at the Department of ...

Political activist, member of TIC and MK

Member of the SRC at University of Zululand, member of SASO, National Organiser BPC, President of AZAPO, Chairperson of ...

Co-founder of the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola and Southern Africa.

MK Gandhi’s South African Secretary

Shop steward at African Tobacco Workers' Union, served on SACTU's executive committee, appointed to the ANC national exe...

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

Political activist, Member of the ANC, MK and SACP, Rivonia Trialist and Robben Island prisoner.

Pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Political prisoner, member of the Non European Unity Movement, African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa, Britis...

Anti-apartheid activist, ANC member, MK underground operative, Robben Island prisoner, recipient of the Government’s Nat...

South african freedom fighter,activist,actor,story teller,poet,playwright, director and author

General secretary of the Chemical and Industrial Workers’ Union, Adult Basic Education trainer

Singer

Teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South A...

Member of Black Sash, imprisoned for attempting to undergo military training.

  Political activist, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, founder of the Human Rights Co...

A Khoi woman who worked as a domestic servant in the Van Riebeeck house and a translator for the Dutch authorities. Her ...

Trade unionist and women’s rights activist

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birt...

Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned...

Dutch anti apartheid activist and Operation Vula Operative

Theologian, educationalist, community leader, anti-apartheid activist, member of the Federal Theological Seminary, UDF, ...

uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) unit commander

Former Secretary-General of the ANC (1936-1949), political activist and Anglican clergyman

ANC political activist, former premier of Gauteng Province and currently Minister of Human Settlements

Political activist, political detainee, Deputy Director for communication in the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and...

Member of the ANC and MK, political prisoner

A priest part of the South African Council of Churches (SACC).

Youth Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA), Black Consciousness Movement activist and ...

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson, a former Methodist Minister was  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he join...