Politics & Labour

Chair of the Independent Electoral Commission, Chair of the University of North-West Council and Advocate of the supreme...

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

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

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

Robben Island prisoner

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

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) .

Member of ANC, MK, PEBCO and the UDF

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

anti-apartheid political activist, founding member of the Black Sash

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...

Emperor of Ethiopia, exiled leader, Commander of Ethiopian Army, Messiah figure for Rastafarian religion

Anti-apartheid activist, Black Sash member, founder of the Donald Woods Foundation, charity campaigner

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).

An activist and trade unionist. Secretary General of Black People’s Convention (BPC)s and National Chairperson of Azania...

Deputy President of NUSAS, political prisoner, Member of the ANC and the UCM, Scholar and Academic, member of the South ...

ANC and PAC Member, Robben Island prisoner

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

Political activist, banned person, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, Federation of Sout...