Lives of courage

The first registered professional Black nurse in South Africa, early activist in the struggle for women’s rights and pro...

Mechanical engineer, member of the SACP and the MK High Command

Important figure in the history of Satyagraha (passive resistance) in South Africa, member of the Executive of the Trans...

MK operative killed in SA raid on Lesotho.

Teacher, lecturer, member of UDF and President of NOW, ANC politician and Deputy President of South Africa.  

Political Activist, teacher and business owner.

ANC member and a leader of Orange Free State women in the anti-pass campaign

A suffragette and civil rights activist of the Cape Colony.

Member of the ANC and MK. She was responsible for recruiting and transporting students to Swaziland to join th...

Political activist

Member of the PAC, Robben Island prisoner

Zolile Hamilton Keke was born on 31st of October 1945 in East London and grew up in Duncan Village township. He attended...

Member of the ANC, member of the executive committee of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), defend...

Headed the African National Congress Women's League, fund raiser for the ANC, founder of the popular Zenzele self-help m...

Community activist, member of the Ratepayers’ Association of Merebank, participated in protests and demonstrations. 

  Tailor, member of the Industrial Workers’ Union (ICU), took part in campaigns against passes for women in

First president of the African National Congress Women’s League, elected to the ANC Executive Committee, National ...

Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the ANC, represented the ANC Women’s Section at the Women’s International ...

Attorney, Member of the South African Communist Party, National General Secretary of the National Union of Distributive ...

Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, banned person

Political activist, academic, journalist, playwright, poet

The musician and political activist Mzwakhe Mbuli has played an essential role in the musical culture of South Africa be...

Member of the Housewives League and the South African Federation of Democratic Women, co-founder of the Non-European Sol...

Trade unionist and shop steward for the Garment Workers’ Union, elected to the Transvaal executive of the African Nation...

Khiosan chief, community leader, political activist, trade unionist

Ordained Anglican preacher, Anti-Apartheid Activist, Special Representative of the Herero people at the United Nations, ...

A member of the African National Congress, was involved in intelligence.

Teacher and first African advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal. Chairperson of the Orlando branch of the CYL, memb...

Trade Unionist, General Secretary of the Garment Worker’s Union 

Member of the ANC and MK and medical doctor

Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned...