Lives of courage

Mthembu was an active member of the African National Congress (ANC) who escaped into exile to Angola and died in an ambu...

A part of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD), South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Modern Youth Socie...

Organizer of the 1956’s Women’s March, Charged, Arrested and Banned for Distributing Illegal Literature under the Suppre...

Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 19...

A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Malele was an activist involved in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, one of t...

1956 Treason Trialist and member of the SACP

Banned political activist, Bardien was involved in the Unity Movement, Coloured Affairs Department (CAD) and South Afric...

Mr Lawrence Ndzanga,aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member o...

Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at...

Actor, photographer, activist and member of Afrapix

Mr Ernest Mamashila, aged 35,was detained on 16 November 1976 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act.His wife was told ...

Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. N...

On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in de...

Member of the ANC's armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe who died on a mission to plant a bomb at Athlone Magistrate's Court in r...

Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 197...

Political activist, detained, regional secretary of SASO, UDF member, former provincial parliamentarian.

Member of the ANC and MK, political prisoner

Killed in battle 

Mr William Nomodi Tshwane was reported to have been detained with other Soweto students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modd...

Member of the Natal Indian Youth Congress, Natal Indian Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, exile, medical doctor

Secretary of the Natal Indian Youth Congress, member of the Natal Indian Congress, among the earliest uMkhonto weSizwe r...

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

Member of the initial uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, exile

Political leader, journalist, editor and an organiser for the Natal Indian Congress, the Communist Party and the Congres...

Commerical traveller, executive member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and a member of the Evaton People’s Transport Co...

Alan Arnold Aderem was restricted to his Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) home. His house arrres...

trade unionist, Secretary of the Textile Workers Industrial Union, banned person

Member of NUSAS and Liberal Party of South Africa, Secretary of the Party in Natal, banned person, political prisoner, u...

Delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in Bucharest, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, trade unionist...

African National Congress Youth League and ANC member, 1956 Treason trialist,  first commander of MK, member of the Nati...

Trade unionist, leader in uMkhonto weSizwe and Member of Parliament.

Poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile, member of the African National Congress