Politics & Labour

African National Congress (ANC) Director of International Affairs, ANC’s political commissar in Tanzania and Ambassador ...

Founder and President of UNITA in Angola

Western Cape Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Detectives, former MK operative, teacher  

Major General (retired) of the Transkei Defence Force, Chairman of the Military Council of Transkei, leader of the Trans...

Shopsteward, Secretary and Organizer of the central branch of the GWU of South Africa

A Leading member of Congress of Democrats and political activist who was sentenced with Mandela and others to life impri...

banned person, political prisoner, Member of SASO, BPC and BCP, medical doctor, academic, anthropologist, Vice Chancello...

Clerk at the Alexandra Institute, member of the African National Congress Youth League, African National Congress Women’...

Political activist, political prisoner, banned person, exile, teacher, involved in the revival of the Natal Indian Congr...

Teacher, political activist,  trade unionist, banned person, political prisoner, exile, President of the Transvaal ...

Political activist and former PAC secretary general.

Political activist, member of the South African Communist Party and the Federation of South African Women.

Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist

School principal, President of AZAPO,  Member of the ANC, the first Deputy President of SADTU, South African Diplomat

Political prisoner, poet, journalist, and editor

Political Activist.

Journalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee, political prisoner and defendant i...

Renowned author of Cry, the Beloved Country, founding member and leader of the Liberal Party

Assistant editor of Ilanga lase Natal,editor of Inkundla ya Bantu, co-authored  the ANC Youth League Manifesto of 1944, ...

Teacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of the African National Congress Wom...

Anti-apartheid activist, women’s rights activist, labour activist, member of the CPSA and Transvaal All-Women’s Union, f...

She joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, and in 1954 participated in the establishment of the ANC Women’s...

Member of the ‘Upington 14', political prisoner

Member of the SACP, Founder member of the Cape Town Friends of Cuba Society

Author, journalist, anti-apartheid activist, co-founded the Africa Bureau, first person to record the ANC’s history

Irvin Jim is a Trade Unionist who is a firm Marxist follower. He was the spokesperson for NOMUSA when it was removed fro...

Chairman of the Student Christian Movement, member of SASO and BPC, former Secretary-General of the ANC, first secretary...

South African political activist.

Teacher, lawyer, President and National Chairperson of the ANC.

Shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, helped organise...

General Secretary of the National Union of South African Students, Member of the United Democrat

Founder and first commander of Cape Town, South Africa. van Riebeeck was an Administrator of the Dutch East India Compan...

Trade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the National Executive Committee of the 

Nurse, Senior Matron, President of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA), first President of the South Afric...

Teacher, Minister of Police (2018 - present), MEC for Transport, Safety and Security for Kwa-Zulu-Natal from 2004 to 200...

Musician and Singer, exiled person

Gcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile  also known as Sizwe or Tshonyi[1] was born on the 6th of October in 1957. He w...

Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.

Teacher, member of the ANC, chairperson of the Central Western Jabavu Branch of the Federation of South African Women (F...

Community worker, revolutionary, soldier, martyr, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress and uMk...