Lives of courage

Founder of the ICU and National secretary. Trade Unionist and Political Activist.

Teacher, miner, journalist, General Secretary of the CPSA, Editor of CPSA paper, Inkululeko, Member of the Afr...

Member of the Black Sash, founder of the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC) to fight forced removal

Secretary General and Cultural Officer of SASO, political activist, poet, member of MK and the ANC

Prominent activist in the struggle against racial segregation in competitive sports during apartheid

Member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, veterinarian, worked on the African National Congress farm...

Political activist, member of ANC, MK, UDF and SACP, Democratic Party Member of Parliament, Vice President of UDF

Member of South African Student Organisation, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, community-based organizer, De...

Banned person, Robben Island prisoner, Member of Parliament, Executive and Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay M

Political activist, academic and member of APDUSA and Unity Movement

Journalist, Native Representative in the House of Assembly,Western Cape, chief editor of the Guardian, editor of the Afr...

Medical doctor, Chairperson of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Transvaal anti...

Political activist and Treason Trialist involved in the Traansvaal Indian Congress, the Congress of the People, the 1946...

Poet, musician, painter, historian, teacher, philosopher

A veteran of the South African liberation struggle, Treason Trialist, long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island a...

Took part in the Defiance Campaign, national organiser of the Liberal Party and member of the PAC

member of Cape Women’s Enfranchisement League, friend of Olive Schreiner, politically opposed Jan Smuts government, lect...

journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP

Member of the African National Congress

Political activist, worked with SACTU and a member of the Young Communist League (YCL) and the South African Communist P...

National Secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, member and Vice President of the Executive Committee of t...

Founder and leading theoretician of the Non-European Unity Movement

Trade unionist, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the ANC (African National Congress), political pr...

Member of the ANC, helped draft the ANC's Code of Conduct and statutes, member of the Constitutional Committee and Natio...

Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa, volunteer in the South African Armed Forces, appointed King’s Counsel (KC...

Artist, industrial designer, architect, member of MK, political prisoner and lecturer 

Assistant General Secretary of TUCSA, chairman of the Urban Training Project, university lecturer and banned person.