Politics & Labour

President of the Western Cape ANC and editor

Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, Director of Study Project on Christianity in an Apartheid Society (SPROCAS) ...

Member of COSAS, Co-founder of AYCO, UDF in the Transvaal and presently Minister of Arts and Culture in South Africa.

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Central Committee in Johannesburg, organizer for the Federa...

Former Executive Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement

Political activist, member of AZAPO, lecturer and minister in the Anglican Church.

Trade unionist, President of Brazil, for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of the agenda of the South and ...

Teacher, businessman, one of the four vice-presidents of the African National Congress at its founding, founded the Bant...

Vice president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and ANC, Community activist...

Member of ANC and MK, Chief Logistics Officer for the Luthuli Detachment and Member of the Limpopo Legislature

Member of COSAS and ANC, Robben Island political prisoner, Secretary of the Central House Committee (UWC), Mayor and Loc...

See biography written by Jaime Ibarra-Perez and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership pro...

Former Communist sympathiser, assisted in drafting the constitution of the All African Convention, co-chairman of the Am...

Leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933, editor of the Party's newspaper, the South Afric...

Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid era. Also Correctional S...

Former Minister of Education and Constitutional Development

City Councilor, MP and Peace Mediator who played a leading role in peace mediation efforts as Burundian peace facilitato...

Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress, accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, coal dealer and propert...

Printer and journalist, provincial secretary of the ICU  for the Transvaal, edited The Workers' Herald and later New Afr...

President of the All African Convention (AAC), teacher, lawyer

Former Conservative Party Leader.

Pioneer trade unionist and NUMSA leader.

ANC Political Activist

Prime Minister of South Africa, secretary of the National Party

President of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) from 1971 until 3 July 1972 and co-founder of the BPC. Academ...

Anglican priest, member of the ANC national executive committee,  ANC chaplain,and helped to organise volunteers for the...

Leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in Durban, and prominent in the All African Convention, elected to the N...

British South African statesman, an administrator of native affairs, who was responsible for the annexation of the Trans...

In 1906 he joined Chief Bambatha (also Bambata) and other chiefs in the rebellion against the imposition of the Poll Tax...

OPO, SWAPO and SWALA member, who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his role as an activist

Teacher, butcher, executive member of the All African Convention and the ANC,ran successfully for election to the Native...

High Commissioner in South Africa, and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony.

ANC member in Newclare

Chief of Batlokwa

Member of the South African Black Scholars Association, youth organizerat the Churches Urban Planning Commission (CUPC),...

Headmaster, assistant school inspector, advisor to the Paramount Chief Bazindlo Sandile, held the educational and agricu...

Served on the United Transkeian Territories General Council and the Transkeian Territorial Authority but was defeated fo...

Member of the ANC and office-bearer, National Executive Committee member of the Federation of South African Women, organ...