Politics & Labour

Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the ...

Anti-apartheid activist, member of SACP, MYS, and ANC, secretary of Joint Congress Committee, served on the Treason Tria...

Former Minister of Arts and Culture, political activist, analyst and writer.

Teacher, court interpreter and clerk to the Mafeking administrator of Native Affairs, author, journalist, linguist, and ...

uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) unit commander

Former Secretary-General of the ANC (1936-1949), political activist and Anglican clergyman

 Law Adviser of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Member of Parliament and Minister of Foreign Affairs in South Africa

British High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony between 1897 and 1899.

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

ANC political activist, former premier of Gauteng Province and currently Minister of Human Settlements

Shop steward and later Secretary General of the Metal and Allied Workers Union, chairman of the Alexandra Action Committ...

Member of the ANC and MK, political prisoner

Hawker, member of the ANC and MK

A priest part of the South African Council of Churches (SACC).

Youth Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA), Black Consciousness Movement activist and ...

Mthembu was an active member of the African National Congress (ANC) who escaped into exile to Angola and died in an ambu...

A part of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD), South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Modern Youth Socie...

Organizer of the 1956’s Women’s March, Charged, Arrested and Banned for Distributing Illegal Literature under the Suppre...

Trade unionist and photographer. Member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of South Africa, Secretary of the lo...

Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 19...

A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Malele was an activist involved in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, one of t...

1956 Treason Trialist and member of the SACP

Banned political activist, Bardien was involved in the Unity Movement, Coloured Affairs Department (CAD) and South Afric...

Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, Medical doctor

Mr Lawrence Ndzanga,aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member o...

Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at...

Actor, photographer, activist and member of Afrapix

Photographer, Afrapix Member

Mr Ernest Mamashila, aged 35,was detained on 16 November 1976 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act.His wife was told ...

Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. N...

On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in de...

Trained interpreter and Khoisan leader in the mid 1600s. He led the Khoikhoi in the first Khoikhoi-Dutch war.

Member of the ANC's armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe who died on a mission to plant a bomb at Athlone Magistrate's Court in r...

Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 197...

Political activist, detained, regional secretary of SASO, UDF member, former provincial parliamentarian.