Politics & Labour

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

Political activist, political prisoner, imprisoned  during  the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign and the 1952 Campaign...

Lecturer, journalist, author, for her contribution to the struggle for liberation, democracy and human rights, and for w...

nurse, member of the African National Congress (ANC), participated in  the Defiance Campaign 1952 and the  Wom...

A member of South African Congress of Democrats (COD), and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Radiographer, literacy director of SASO, political prisoner, banned person

Banned person.

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

Trade unionist, political activist and civic leader.

Anti-apartheid activist, co-founding member of the BCM, member of SASO, banned for five years, women’s rights activist, ...

King of the Zulu.

Physiotherapist, political prisoner

  Political activist, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, exiled person, active in the A...

Political activist, political prisoner and nurse. 

  Political prisoner, took part in passive resistance.

Member of the ANC and MK, political detainee

Member of the NEUM and TLSA, Editor of the Educational Journal, teacher political activist, political detainee, member o...

Arrested and detained for political activities

Member of the African National Congress, member of the Executive Committee of the Black People’s Convention, founding me...

Nurse, lecturer, consultant in development studies, National President of the YWCA of South Africa, Regional Director of...

journalist, news editor, political prisoner

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) and the Black Sash, political prisoner, worked at Defence and Aid, ...

political activist, member of the South African Communist Party, lecturer, author, gender activist, played a key part i...

Women’s rights activist, anti-apartheid activist, member of the ANCYL, ANCWL, FEDSAW, and AAPSO, founding member of the ...

Participated in the Indian miners’ strike of 1913, political prisoner. 

Anti-apartheid activist, COD and ANC member, journalist, launched the ANC women section’s first bulletin- Voice of Women...

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

First African woman member of the Communist Party of South Africa in Langa, member of the African National Congress Wome...

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

  A young girl who joined other women on a march to inform others of the passive resista

Medical Doctor; Matabele Induna; Member of the Pioneer Column; Chief Magistrate of the British South Africa Company; Adm...

Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for socia...

Anti-Apartheid activist, UDF activist, progressive media and cultural activist, documentary photographer, member of phot...