Lives of courage

Business person, NIC member, Joint Secretary of the SAIC 

Business person, teacher, National organiser for the ANC and 1956 Treason trialist

Trade unionist, African National Congress (ANC) activist and 1956 Treason Trial defendant and politician

ANC member and political activist

 Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and South Afr...

Deputy President Constitutional Court, Deputy Chief Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, and Chief Justice...

Linotype operator and printer of The Guardian, Lee-Warden was elected as Native Representative for the Cape in 1954, and...

Doctor and ANC member 

Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal and 1956 Treason Trialist

Painter

Student activist, businessperson, member of SASM, PEBCO, UDF and ANC National Executive Committee

Teacher, court interpreter, minister and first President-General of the ANC

Clerk, miner, founding member and secretary of the African Mineworkers' Union. Organizing secretary of the Orlando branc...

Banished person, Civil Rights Activist, member of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, active in the Evaton...

Trade unionist, Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the African National Congress (ANC), 1956 Treason...

Political activist

Secretary of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Deputy volunteer-in-chief for the Transvaal in the 1952...

Organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. Participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. Elected secretary of the Tr...

Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile...

Member of the African National Congress national executive committee, defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial 

Member of the Jewellers and Goldsmiths Union, ANC, SACP, SACTU, MK, ANC Printer, Grassroots Adult Education and Training...

Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities.

first president of the ANC’s Women’s League in KwaZulu-Natal 

ANC delegate at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.

Robben Island prisoner, banned person, President of Pan African Congress, Bishop of the Methodist Church of South Africa...

Flora is a mother, grandmother, church elder, foster mother to 9 AIDS orphans, and manager of 8 voluntary HIV/AIDS careg...

Founding member of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), UDF Secretary for the Transvaal region, ANC member and the...

Prominent Orange Free State ANC leader

Member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the ANC,defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial

Born in 1925, Motshabi worked as a clerk. He took part in the 1944 Alexandra Township bus boycott movement and the shant...

Member of the ANC, 1956 Treason Trialist, founder member of the Bechuanaland People’s Party (BPP) and the Botswana Indep...

Trade unionist, member of the national council of Non-European United Front, member of the Central Committee of the Sout...

A businessperson, played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for partic...

Active in politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African township of Korsten

Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign&nbsp...

Liberation struggle veteran, prominent Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist and Founding Member and former Vice President of...

Member of the African National Congress,  chairman of the Sophiatown Youth League and National ANC Youth League secretar...

Teacher, Secretary of the Aliwal North branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), member of the Commun...

Political activist and Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).

Journalist and sports editor, member of the ANCYL and the ANC National Executive, Treason trialist, exiled person.