Politics & Labour

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...

Former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos (1942-2022) died at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, at the age 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 ...

anti-apartheid activist, political detainee, treason trialist and author

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

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

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

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...

Member of AZASO,FEDTRAW, UDF and ANC.

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

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

Member of the ANC and MK, political prisoner, National Chairperson MKVA and former advisor to the Minister of Defence.

Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, South African Communist Pa...