Politics & Labour

Member of the ANC and MK, political prisoner

Killed in battle 

Mr William Nomodi Tshwane was reported to have been detained with other Soweto students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modd...

ANC and MK member 

Member of the Natal Indian Youth Congress, Natal Indian Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, exile, medical doctor

Secretary of the Natal Indian Youth Congress, member of the Natal Indian Congress, among the earliest uMkhonto weSizwe r...

Mabhida was an outstanding leader of humble origins who became a dominant figure in the trade union movement, the Africa...

Member of the initial uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, exile

Secretary of the Border regional command of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), imprisoned on Robben Island, teacher, UDF President ...

Political leader, journalist, editor and an organiser for the Natal Indian Congress, the Communist Party and the Congres...

Commerical traveller, executive member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and a member of the Evaton People’s Transport Co...

Alan Arnold Aderem was restricted to his Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) home. His house arrres...

trade unionist, Secretary of the Textile Workers Industrial Union, banned person

Member of NUSAS and Liberal Party of South Africa, Secretary of the Party in Natal, banned person, political prisoner, u...

Delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in Bucharest, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, trade unionist...

African National Congress Youth League and ANC member, 1956 Treason trialist,  first commander of MK, member of the Nati...

Trade unionist, leader in uMkhonto weSizwe and Member of Parliament.

Poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile, member of the African National Congress

Member of the ANC and SACP, state witness in many political trials

Member of the TIC, SAIC, ANC, MK and UDF

Intellectual and revolutionary. Member of the SACP and  MK’s High Command.

Political activist and MK Commissar,  Robben Island prisoner. Later in life he played a key role in the formation o...

Trade unionist, Secretary of SACTU, member of ANC and MK, singer and one of the first ANC members to be executed by the ...

Political prisoner, trade unionist, banned person

Writer, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member, banned person, politcal prisoner, exile,  recipient of The Or...

Mr Michael Shivute was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa po...

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP), Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Commander...

Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, C...

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) member and documentary photographer

According to the minster of police in May 1969 Mr Jundea Tubakwa was detained on 10th September 1968 under section 6(1) ...

Photojournalist, documentary photographer, taught photography at the Open School, media worker worked at the Institute o...

Political Activist

Mr Leong Pin died on 19 November 1966 after being detained on 18 Novemver 1966 at the Leeuwkop prison under the 180-day ...

Mr Pongoloshe Hoye died in detention in the Transkei on 9th May 1965.He was being held under Transkei Proclamation R400....

The early records that were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detain...

Bellington Mampe was a Poqo activist, He died in hospital while in custody.Mr Bellington Mampe died in September 1963 a...

In 1967 the minister of justice announced that a detainee had died in detention in 1966,but did not mention the detaine...