Lives of courage

She joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, and in 1954 participated in the establishment of the ANC Women’s...

Member of the ‘Upington 14', political prisoner

Member of the SACP, Founder member of the Cape Town Friends of Cuba Society

Chairman of the Student Christian Movement, member of SASO and BPC, former Secretary-General of the ANC, first secretary...

South African political activist.

Teacher, lawyer, President and National Chairperson of the ANC.

Shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, helped organise...

General Secretary of the National Union of South African Students, Member of the United Democrat

Trade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the National Executive Committee of the 

Teacher, Minister of Police (2018 - present), MEC for Transport, Safety and Security for Kwa-Zulu-Natal from 2004 to 200...

Musician and Singer, exiled person

Gcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile  also known as Sizwe or Tshonyi[1] was born on the 6th of October in 1957. He w...

Member of the Companions Catholic Order, helped form local women’s organisations in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was...

Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.

Community worker, revolutionary, soldier, martyr, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress and uMk...

Political activist and health practitioner

President of the Cape ANCYL and the Chair of the ANC in East London, an organiser of the 1950 and 1952 Defiance Campaign...

A member of both the South African Congress of Democrats and the South African Communist Party.

Minister of Defence and Military veterans, Former anti-apartheid guerilla, Chairperson of the National Council of Provin...

Medical doctor, community activist and author.

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...

John Stephen Gomas was born on 8th April 1901 near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced moth...

Trade unionist, member of the NIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Assistant Secretary of the Natal Indian Farmers Union, accused in t...

Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of...

Member of the Ministerial Task Team that drafted the Labour Relations Bill for the post-apartheid era, first chairperson...

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government.

Peace activist, Social Worker, Founder of Natal Organisation of Women,  member of the NIC, ANC and the UDF, Member ...

Anti-Apartheid activist, liberation struggle hero, Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress Youth Congress, involved in th...