Politics & Labour

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

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

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

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

Trade unionist

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP), Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Commander...

Founding member of the Theatre Council of Natal (TECON), close associate of Steve Biko, SASO Publications Director , reg...

Member of the ANC NEC, acting National General Secretary for the UDF and former Minister of Envi ronmental affairs and T...

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

Political Activist.

Attorney, Founder member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, later ANC), Vice-Chairman of the Provisio...

Activist, one of the first Black women graduates in South Africa and one of the first Black South Africans to fight for ...

Poet, novelist, writer and political prisoner

Lawyer, President of the NIC, banned, politcal detainee, member of the UDF

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Secretary of the Pretoria branch of the TIC, involved the Indian Passive Resistance Movement, member of the executives o...

Political activist, founder member of the Natal Native Congress and founder member of the South African Native National ...

Secretary of the Border regional command of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), imprisoned on Robben Island, teacher, UDF President ...

Muslim cleric, killed in police detention

Trade Unionist

Member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of Democrats (COD), sat on the South Afric...

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johan...

Activist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of Parliament.

Trade unionist, General Secretary of the South African Coloured People's Organisation, Secretary of the Franchise Action...

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

Taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town, charged for sedition in 1946 mineworkers strike, m...

Teacher, interpreter, church leader and politician.

Political Activist.

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

Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Worke...

Nurse, chairperson of the George Goch branch of the ANCYL, founder member of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the ...

King of the Zulu.

Founding member of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), UDF Secretary for the Transvaal region, ANC member and the...

Artist, Poet and activist, member of the African National Congress (ANC); the South African Communist Party (SACP) and a...

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...

Writer, editor of Drum magazine from 1955- 8 and publisher

Teacher, political activist and founder member of the ANC Youth League.

Schoolteacher, magistrate's clerk, advocate, farmer, lecturer, last Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, secre...

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

One of the founders of the Nationalist Group of the TIC, principal representative for the TIC in the Western Transvaal ....