Lives of courage

Lawyer and labour activist

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Communist intellectual and organiser, Sydney Bunting was instrumental in the formation and early development of the Comm...

Member of the International Socialist League in the Cape, supervisor of the CPSA's night school in Ferreirastown, Johann...

Vice-President of NUSAS, President of NUSWEL, member of the executive committee of the Industrial Aid Society ...

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the Springbok Legion, South African Communist Party (SACP) and uMk...

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the Afric...

Norman Pietersen was an uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla. On 11 March, 1987 he was murdered by apartheid Riot Squad in N...

Lawyer, banned person, trade union advisor,  member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, advi...

Parliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.

Member of the SACP and ANC, political detainee, lawyer, academic, sociologist, Nuffield Foundation Sociological Scholar ...

Witwatersrand University SRC member, political detainee, cartoonist, architect, university lecturer, member of the ANC, ...

Journalist, a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists and a member of the Writer’s Association of South Africa...

ANC activist, political prisoner, ambassador, Member of Parliament .

Chair of the Greyville Branch of the NIC, NIC delegate to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, Member of the NIC, MK, A...

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.

Farouk Asvat is a novelist, poet, essayist, translator and medical doctor. He was banned by the South African apartheid ...

South African academic, African National Congress politician, Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN

Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist

Poet, novelist, political and cultural activist, banned person, co-founder of Congress of South African Writers, worked ...

Anti-apartheid activist, member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and an operative of the Azanian People’s Liberation...

Teacher, political activist, political prisoner, member of the COD, SACP and ANC, author, journalist, Editor of Sechaba

Member of the African National Congress, business woman, Governor of the Reserve Bank.

Activist and Martyr. Died as a result of her participation in the South African liberation struggle.

Nurse, midwife, lawyer and member of the UDF and NOW

Teacher, member of SACTU, SACP and ANC.

Member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of Democrats (COD), sat on the South Afric...

Anti-apartheid activist, women’s rights activist, member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), banned

Communist, political activist, 90 day detainee

Religious leader, Treason Trialist, Political activist and political detainee

Parliamentarian, lawyer and member of the UDF and ANC

Trade unionist, member of the SACP, NLL and ANC

Lawyer, trade unionist, organiser for the NLL, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (C...