Office Bearers

founding member of UWO and SADTU, Deputy President of the ANCWL and member of the ANC’s NEC

Academic, South African Prime Minister, considered to be the primary architect of apartheid 

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

Trade unionist, member of the SACP, political activist, political prisoner, banned person and exile.

Member of NOW, UDF, ANC and the Central Committee of the SACP. Delegate to the Codesa talks, Deputy Minister of Defence ...

Pastor, member of the UDF and the ANC, Director-General in the Office of the President; Senior Research Fellow in the De...

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

Trade unionist, participated in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, Vice-President of the Transvaal Indian Congress, member of t...

President of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the then ‘non-European’ SRC at Nata...

Member of the ANC, MK, SACP and Cosatu, Deputy President of the ANC, third President of democratic South Africa. 

Member of the SRC at University of Zululand, member of SASO, National Organiser BPC, President of AZAPO, Chairperson of ...

Shop steward at African Tobacco Workers' Union, served on SACTU's executive committee, appointed to the ANC national exe...

Political prisoner, member of the Non European Unity Movement, African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa, Britis...

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birt...

Politician, former member of PAC, trade unionist, founder and a leader of Independent Democrats (ID) and Mayor of Cape T...

Teacher, court interpreter and clerk to the Mafeking administrator of Native Affairs, author, journalist, linguist, and ...

Former Secretary-General of the ANC (1936-1949), political activist and Anglican clergyman

Mabhida was an outstanding leader of humble origins who became a dominant figure in the trade union movement, the Africa...

Member of NUSAS and Liberal Party of South Africa, Secretary of the Party in Natal, banned person, political prisoner, u...

Writer, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member, banned person, politcal prisoner, exile,  recipient of The Or...

Political activist, teacher, member of SASO, BPC, PET and AZAPO. Sadecque Variava is a Black Consciousness activist who ...

South African advocate and Cabinet Minister in the South African Government between 1910 and 1924, vice-president of the...

Teacher, former Deputy President of PAC, Member of Parliament, founding President of the African Peoples Convention (APC...

One of its first African recruits of the Young Communist League, Transvaal Provincial Secretary of the ICU

Chair of NUSAS, medical doctor, palaeo-anthropologist, lecturer, author, geneticist, scientist, Professor Emeritus of An...

Trade union activist and politician

Dr. Maitshwe Nchaupe Aubrey Mokoape, a medical doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital, Durban, Natal (now KwaZ...

Robben Island prisoner, Advocate, Constitutional Court Judge, Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa and Deputy Chairperso...

Member of the SASO executive, President of the SRC at Turfloop University, member of the UDF and the Release Mandela Cam...

Trade unionist, member of SACTU, 1956 Treason trialist

Journalist, trade unionist, attorney and political activist, Member of Parliament (Provincial), for his contribution to ...

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) underground, prisoner on Robben Island, previous MEC for Limpopo’s Economi...

Political activist, Vice President of SACPO, journalist, lawyer and member of the PAC

President of NUSAS, founder member of the Liberal Party, Chancellor of UDW, Judge of the Natal Provincial Division, memb...

Newspaper publisher and ANC member

Member of the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU), active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, President of the Cap...

Political activist

Business person, NIC member, Joint Secretary of the SAIC 

Student activist, businessperson, member of SASM, PEBCO, UDF and ANC National Executive Committee

Teacher, court interpreter, minister and first President-General of the ANC