Politics & Labour

A member of both the South African Congress of Democrats and the South African Communist Party.

King Faku ka Ngqungqushe was born around 1780 at the Qawukeni Great Palace near a small town called Lusikisiki in the Mp...

Minister of Defence and Military veterans, Former anti-apartheid guerilla, Chairperson of the National Council of Provin...

Medical doctor, community activist and author.

ANC National Spokesperson, Speaker and MEC in Mpumalanga Legislature, trade unionist

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...

Photographer, reporter, member of the ANC and MK

John Stephen Gomas was born on 8th April 1901 near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced moth...

Trade unionist, member of the NIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Assistant Secretary of the Natal Indian Farmers Union, accused in t...

Feminist, lecturer, journalist, trade unionist, founded higher education for Black and Indian students in Natal, awarded...

Trade unionist, member of the ANC, President of the UDF (Western Cape)

Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known as Mahatma Gandhi, has not been studied much in works on G...

Anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the United Democratic Front (UDF).

Member of the ANC, ANCYL, ANCWL,  Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, Party Whip, Chairperson of the Women’s C...

Lawyer, instrumental in the founding of the Ossewa-Brandwag, and also became a general in its paramilitary wing, Ministe...

Human rights and gender activist, member of the African National Congress and deputy chairperson and a member of the Cen...

Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of...

Member of the Ministerial Task Team that drafted the Labour Relations Bill for the post-apartheid era, first chairperson...

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government.

Peace activist, Social Worker, Founder of Natal Organisation of Women,  member of the NIC, ANC and the UDF, Member ...

Anti-Apartheid activist, liberation struggle hero, Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress Youth Congress, involved in th...

Lawyer and labour activist

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Communist intellectual and organiser, Sydney Bunting was instrumental in the formation and early development of the Comm...

Member of the International Socialist League in the Cape, supervisor of the CPSA's night school in Ferreirastown, Johann...

Member of SACP, National Secretary of FSAW, member of the ANC Women’s League 

Thinker, orator and writer