Politics & Labour

Youngest member of the Broederbond, Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, moderator of the Southern Transvaal DRC synod...

Teacher, community leader, political activist and member of the UDF. One of the ‘Cradock Four’ murdered by the South Afr...

Matthew Goniwe was born on 27 December 1947 in Lingelihle Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His ...

President of the Medical Students Representative Council at University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), membe...

Teacher and farmer, wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli, community leader, involved in the ANC and Daughters of Africa.

President of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the then ‘non-European’ SRC at Nata...

Editor and political activist, member of the NIC and son of Mahatma Gandhi.

Anti-apartheid activist, feminist, member of SASO, the BCM, the BPC, and AZAPO, banned for three years

Member of the national executive committee of the ANC, leader of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra Township,  Treasurer-...

Medical doctor, co-founder and first chairperson of the Anti-Segregation Council, President of the NIC

Trade unionist, Political prisoner, member of the ANC and uMkhonto we Sizwe, National Secretary of SACTU, National Chair...

Member of the ANC, MK, SACP and Cosatu, Deputy President of the ANC, third President of democratic South Africa. 

member of the TIYC, TIC and the ANC, Coordinator of the Somafco Collection, Batlagae Trust, worked at the Department of ...

Political activist, member of TIC and MK

Member of the SRC at University of Zululand, member of SASO, National Organiser BPC, President of AZAPO, Chairperson of ...

Co-founder of the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola and Southern Africa.

Founder member and first president of the Black Sash in 1955, led the organization until 1975, recipient of the Governme...

MK Gandhi’s South African Secretary

Shop steward at African Tobacco Workers' Union, served on SACTU's executive committee, appointed to the ANC national exe...

Anti-apartheid activist, member of the ANCWL and FEDSAW, founding member of ASHA, played a role in the 1956 Women’s Marc...

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

Teacher, political activist, advocate and founder of the NEUM and member of the TLSA.

Political activist, Member of the ANC, MK and SACP, Rivonia Trialist and Robben Island prisoner.

Pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Political prisoner, member of the Non European Unity Movement, African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa, Britis...

Anti-apartheid activist, ANC member, MK underground operative, Robben Island prisoner, recipient of the Government’s Nat...

General secretary of the Chemical and Industrial Workers’ Union, Adult Basic Education trainer

Teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South A...

Member of Black Sash, imprisoned for attempting to undergo military training.

member of the Communist Party of South Africa, Communist Youth League, Labour League of Youth, Left Book Club, and Liber...

  Political activist, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, founder of the Human Rights Co...

Trade unionist and women’s rights activist

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birt...

Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned...

Politician, former member of PAC, trade unionist, founder and a leader of Independent Democrats (ID) and Mayor of Cape T...

Dutch anti apartheid activist and Operation Vula Operative

Theologian, educationalist, community leader, anti-apartheid activist, member of the Federal Theological Seminary, UDF, ...

  Teacher and member of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association and the African National Congress Youth League