Politics & Labour

Political activist, journalist, interpreter and farm manager

Trade unionist, member of the national council of Non-European United Front, member of the Central Committee of the Sout...

A businessperson, played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for partic...

Active in politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African township of Korsten

Member of the African National Congress,  chairman of the Sophiatown Youth League and National ANC Youth League secretar...

Labour activist.

Teacher, Secretary of the Aliwal North branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), member of the Commun...

Political activist and Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).

Journalist and sports editor, member of the ANCYL and the ANC National Executive, Treason trialist, exiled person.

Lawyer, President of the NIC, banned, politcal detainee, member of the UDF

Chairman the African Laundry Workers' Union, acting chairman of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Gene...

Teacher, farmer, secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council, secretary of the Passive Resistance Council of the Natal Ind...

Lawyer, secretary of the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council. Member of the executive committee of both the Natal India...

Writer, editor of Drum magazine from 1955- 8 and publisher

Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader.

Political activist, teacher, member of the South African Students Organisation and Black Consciousness Movement, SASO’s ...

Natal Provincial Secretary of the ANC Youth League, lawyer, 1956 Treason trialist, Director of the Luthuli Memorial Foun...

Teacher,  President of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League; accused in the 1956 Treason Trial. Makgothi was...

Teacher, member of the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and the Society of Young Africa (SOYA), lawyer, politica...

Chief Minister of former KwaNdebele homeland and founder member of the Intando Yesizwe Party, Founder member of CONTRALE...

Robben Island prisoner, exile person, Chairperson, Southern Natal Region of the ANC, member of the SACP and MK , Secreta...

member of SACPO, exile, active in SANROC

Musician, charged in the 1956 Treason Trial, involved in the Rivonia Trial, Robben Island prisoner and served as an MK c...

Leader of the Israelite sect involved in the Bulhoek massacre of 24 May 1921.

Trade unionist, socialist, member of the anti-fascist movement, Member of the Transvaal Provincial Parliament, founder a...

Member of SASO, BPC, AZASO and the ANC, medical doctor, Secretary of the UDF (KZN), Former Deputy Minister of Rural Deve...

Political activist 

Teacher, first African to pass the Cape Civil Service Examination, court interpreter  at the Supreme Court at Grahamstow...

Member of AZASO, ANC and MK, death row political prisoner, Ekurhuleni Metro Police Commissioner

Member of  the African National Congress,  organising secretary of the African Textile Workers' Union, member of the Nat...

Founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Secretary for Foreign Affairs for the PAC in exile, PAC Chairman a...

Banished person, journalist, organiser during the 1952 Defiance Campaign, 1956 Treason Trialist, Secretary of the ANCYL,...

Teacher, medical practitioner, National Secretary of the ANC, author.

Businessman, Transvaal President of the ANC and defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial

Organiser and later General Secretary of the African Food and Canning Workers Union . President of the Cape ANC 

Founder member of the Natal Native Congress (NNC), Secretary General of the ANC and journalist

King of the Matabele

Member of the ANC and SACP, Chairperson of the Garment Workers Union, Treasurer of the Transvaal affiliate of the Africa...

Chairman of DCO Mathewane Youth Organisation, and a member of the ANC's Self Defence Unit (SDU) in Richmond, Chairman of...

Founding member and national chairman of the South African Coloured People's Organisation, served in the navy in World W...