Politics & Labour

Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in Chief, 1956 Treason Trialist, R...

Student Activist, one of the first students to be killed in the 1976 student rebellion in Soweto, Johannesburg

Hastings Ndlovu was a fifteen-year-old boy during the Soweto Uprising in 1976. He is widely believed to be the first boy...

Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the ...

Political activist, President of SSRC

Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothi...

For his excellent contribution in photo journalism and placing the brutality of the Apartheid police in the internationa...

Robert Cedric Wilcox - a member of the NEUM/Unity Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s D...

Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa...

Member of Non European Unity Movement (NEUM), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, poet, and author

Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Tr...

A self-taught, award winning artist and photographer. Badsha played an active role in the South African liberation strug...

Organiser for the African Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, member of the ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, Treasur...

Member of SASO, the UDF, the ANC and COPE.  Political prisoner, Politician, President and Leader of the Congress of...

Teacher, lecturer, lawyer,  Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC branch in Standerton, founding...

Trade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist

President of the Transvaal African Students' Association and member of the ANC   Youth League, he helped ...

Member of NUSAS, member of the ANC, Trade unionist, General Secretary and  Education secretary of FOSATU, Minister ...

Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn was born in October 1939 in Vosburg in the Karoo, Northern Cape and raised in Queenstown in the...

Politician and anti-apartheid activist, Treason Trialist and President of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's Le...

General secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the African National Congress 

Chairman of Military Committee in Maputo, Robben island prisoner, exile, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC Representative ...

Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of ...

Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT

Lecturer, lawyer, author, trade union and labour activist.

Magistrate, labour bureau agent and a road inspector, journalist, founder and secretary of the Bantu Union, a Cape ...

Teacher, ANC President-General, 1956 Treason Trialist, banned person and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Dikkie Mxolisi Johannes Jacobs, an active member of a youth organisation in Upington, Northern Cape, was detained on 15 ...

Participated in the Defiance Campaign in 1952, which led to her being banned,  worked underground with the FEDSAW, ...

MK commander, murdered by South African Security Police members

Outspoken critic of apartheid, teacher, author, lecturer, Nobel Prize winner, former Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop...

Clerk, teacher, workers’ leader, treason trialist, banished person, member of the ANC, SACTU, SACP and PAC.

African National Congress Youth League president, African National Congress NWC member, Chairman of South African Studen...

Member of the TIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Member of Parliament, recipient of The National Order of Luthuli in Silver

Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa was South Africa’s Ambassador to the Republic of France.

ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of...

President of South African Council on Sport (SACOS), President South African Amateur Swimming Federation, insurance agen...

Parliamentarian, Human Rights Activist, sole representative of opposition party (the Progressive Party) in parliament du...

Boer general and statesman

"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he...