Politics & Labour

Member of the CPSA, architect, 1956 Treason trialist

Sugar farmer, Vice President of the NIC 

Political activist

Business person, NIC member, Joint Secretary of the SAIC 

Business person, teacher, National organiser for the ANC and 1956 Treason trialist

Trade unionist, African National Congress (ANC) activist and 1956 Treason Trial defendant and politician

Political activist, regional secretary of PAC

Seretse Khama was the chief of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). 

ANC member and political activist

 Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and South Afr...

Deputy President Constitutional Court, Deputy Chief Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, and Chief Justice...

ANC, SACP and MK activist

Linotype operator and printer of The Guardian, Lee-Warden was elected as Native Representative for the Cape in 1954, and...

Former leader of the Democratic Alliance

Doctor and ANC member 

Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal and 1956 Treason Trialist

Politician and Freedom Fighter. Revolutionary leader of the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO and Mozambique's firs...

Student activist, businessperson, member of SASM, PEBCO, UDF and ANC National Executive Committee

Teacher, court interpreter, minister and first President-General of the ANC

Clerk, miner, founding member and secretary of the African Mineworkers' Union. Organizing secretary of the Orlando branc...

Trade unionist, ANC Treasurer-General, member of the SACP

Banished person, Civil Rights Activist, member of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, active in the Evaton...

Trade unionist, Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the African National Congress (ANC), 1956 Treason...

Political activist

Political Activist and founder member of the ANC.

Secretary of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Deputy volunteer-in-chief for the Transvaal in the 1952...

Organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. Participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. Elected secretary of the Tr...

Member of the African National Congress national executive committee, defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial 

John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provi...

Member of the Jewellers and Goldsmiths Union, ANC, SACP, SACTU, MK, ANC Printer, Grassroots Adult Education and Training...

Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities.

ANC delegate at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.

Robben Island prisoner, banned person, President of Pan African Congress, Bishop of the Methodist Church of South Africa...

Member of the SASO executive, President of the SRC at Turfloop University, member of the UDF and the Release Mandela Cam...

Founding member of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), UDF Secretary for the Transvaal region, ANC member and the...

Prominent Orange Free State ANC leader

Member of the ANC NEC, acting National General Secretary for the UDF and former Minister of Envi ronmental affairs and T...

Member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the ANC,defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial

Born in 1925, Motshabi worked as a clerk. He took part in the 1944 Alexandra Township bus boycott movement and the shant...

Member of the ANC, 1956 Treason Trialist, founder member of the Bechuanaland People’s Party (BPP) and the Botswana Indep...