Lives of courage

banned person, political prisoner

Trade Unionist and one of the accussed in the infamous Treason Trial of 1956

Chair of NUSAS, medical doctor, palaeo-anthropologist, lecturer, author, geneticist, scientist, Professor Emeritus of An...

trade unionist, member of the ANC, SACP, SACTU and MK

Banished Person

Trade union leader and ANC member, banished person

Clerk, Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown, chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s, Chairma...

Banished person

Qonda Hoho was born 1956 in Bowden village Lady Frere(Eastern Cape).An MK operative who who was shot dead during a shoo...

Author, exile, President of NUSAS, member of the African Resistance Movement, Lecturer in Politics

Banished person

John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South Af...

Joined the ANC and was active in campaigns and on the residents' Vigilance Committee in Moroka. ANC treasurer in Moroka.

Banished person

ANCYL secretary, political prisoner, banned and banishedperson

Makholeka Matthews Meyiwa played a prominent role in the struggle against Apartheid in the Mpumalanga province.  He was ...

In summary: attorney, Member of the African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, Society for Young...

Banished person.

Khuzwayo Joe Mlangeni was one of the first persons to be executed at the Pretoria Central Prison on 5 September 1961.

Teacher, tailor and member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. Participated in the 1946 Indian Passive Resi...

Member of the PAC, political detainee, chairman of the South African National Editors' Forum(SANEF), president of the Un...

Member of the ANC, ANCYL and MK, political prisoner and secretary of the UDF’s Border region.

Born in 1926, Joseph Mpoza was shop assistant. He played a leading role in Worcester strikes and trade union campaigns.

Banished person.

Teacher and member of Liberal Party

Banned person, political prisoner, executive director of the Black Community Programmes, member of the ANC and Member of...

School teacher, member of the ANC and MK, killed in exile

Dr. Maitshwe Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, a medical doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital, Durban, Natal (now KwaZ...

banished person

Robben Island prisoner, Advocate, Constitutional Court Judge, Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa and Deputy Chairperso...

Conscientious objector, political prisoner, researcher, expert on policing in South Africa, author, recipient of the Ree...

Teacher, shopkeeper and secretary and bookkeeper of Abantu-Batho, the ANC newspaper, ANC treasurer-general

Banished person

Banished person

Activist, lay preacher, served as a senator in the first Democratic state and also a member of the Provincial Legislatur...

Banished person.

banished person

Trade unionist, member of SACTU, 1956 Treason trialist