Lives of courage

Political activist, Member of the Union of Jewish Women, regional secretary of the Federation of South African Women and...

Labour activist, first women leader of SACWU and vice-president of SACTU

banished person

Member of the Lenin Club, Founder member of the Non European Unity Movement and Author.

Member of the ANC and MK, Chief director of equal opportunities in the South African National Defence Force and Major Ge...

David Beresford Pratt was born on 1 October 1909 to Arthur and Georgina Pratt. The family immigrated from London in the ...

Member of the PAC and Poqo, active in the BCM, President of the Black Domestic Workers’ Association and recipient of the...

Member of the ANC and uMkhonto we Sizwe and Student activist.

Journalist, trade unionist,  member of the  Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)  activist, member of the ANC and MK, Depu...

Member of the African National Congress, the United Democratic Front (UDF), a Congress of the People volunteer and Anti-...

Member of the CPSA,  member of the National Council of Women, the Congress of Democrats, the Federation of South African...

Member of the African Resistance Movement, Exile, Author and Educator

Artist and ex Robben Island political prisoner

Political prisoner, Member of the SACP, National Executive Committee member of the ANC Women’s League, ANC Provincial Ex...

Human rights lawyer and underground ANC operative; member of the South African Law Commission; former Member of Parliame...

Robben Island prisoner

Member of NUSAS, ANC, SACP and MK, secretary of the United Women's Organisation of the Western Cape (UWO).

 Journalist, a member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

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

Political prisoner, banned person, member of the ANC, ANCWL, FEDSAW, UWCO and SANSCO, Vice Chairperson of UWO and recipi...

Political activist, Member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) .

Anti Apartheid activist, member of Black Sash and the Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC).

Human rights activist, anti-apartheid activist, member of the ANC, the ANCWL and MK, involved in 1956 Women’s March, 195...

Community activist, anti-apartheid activist, founding member of the UDF, first president of the Uitenhage Women’s Organi...

Teacher, member of the Communist Party of South Africa, Franchise Action Program and the South African Coloured People’s...

a member of Habonim, Modern Youth Society; social researcher; worked at the University of Cape Town’s Board of Studies; ...

Anti-apartheid activist, social worker, SSRC and SASM member, one of the student leaders of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, ba...

leader of the Garment Workers Union, convenor of first conference of the Federation of South African Women, prominent ro...

Teacher, banned person, political prisoner on Robben Island, lawyer, member of the ANCYL, member and President of the PA...

Member of the ANC, SACP and MK, author and columnist

A member of the Institute for Industrial Education (IIE).