Politics & Labour

Member of the ANC’s armed wing (MK), imprisoned on Robben Island.

member of the ANCYL and later the PAC

Trade unionist

Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kim...

Banished person

Member of  SASM, ANC AND MK, Robben Island Prisoner

Banished person.

Banished person.

Catholic priest, political prisoner, banned and house arrest under the Internal Security Act.

banned person, political prisoner

Trade Unionist and one of the accussed in the infamous Treason Trial of 1956

Founder member and SASO permanent organizer, Turfloop SRC president, IUEF representative in Botswana, Acting Superintend...

Chair of NUSAS, medical doctor, palaeo-anthropologist, lecturer, author, geneticist, scientist, Professor Emeritus of An...

trade unionist, member of the ANC, SACP, SACTU and MK

Banished Person

Labour activist and lecturer

Trade union leader and ANC member, banished person

Clerk, Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown, chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s, Chairma...

Student activist, NUSAS President and Lawyer. 

Banished person

exile, Professor of Sociology, member of the ANC and Chair of the Public Service Commission.

One of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in...

Qonda Hoho was born 1956 in Bowden village Lady Frere(Eastern Cape).An MK operative who who was shot dead during a shoo...

Author, exile, President of NUSAS, member of the African Resistance Movement, Lecturer in Politics

Teacher, political activist, member of NEUM, Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and founder member of APDUSA.

Banished person

John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South Af...

Joined the ANC and was active in campaigns and on the residents' Vigilance Committee in Moroka. ANC treasurer in Moroka.

Banished person

ANCYL secretary, political prisoner, banned and banishedperson

Makholeka Matthews Meyiwa played a prominent role in the struggle against Apartheid in the Mpumalanga province.  He was ...

Political activist, member of the African Students Association, the South African Communist Party, African National Cong...

In summary: attorney, Member of the African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, Society for Young...

Banished person.

Khuzwayo Joe Mlangeni was one of the first persons to be executed at the Pretoria Central Prison on 5 September 1961.

Lay preacher, miner, night bomber pilot, World War II veteran, lecturer, member of the Progressive Party and the Christi...

Teacher, tailor and member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. Participated in the 1946 Indian Passive Resi...