Women

Musician

anti-apartheid activist, political detainee, treason trialist and author

Politician and anti-apartheid activist, Treason Trialist and President of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's Le...

Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of ...

Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT

Participated in the Defiance Campaign in 1952, which led to her being banned,  worked underground with the FEDSAW, ...

MK commander, murdered by South African Security Police members

ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of...

Parliamentarian, Human Rights Activist, sole representative of opposition party (the Progressive Party) in parliament du...

Member of AZASO,FEDTRAW, UDF and ANC.

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

Teacher, shopkeeper, member of the ANC and SACP, community activist

Teacher, lawyer, university lecturer, author, member of the NEUM, NIC, SACP, ANC and MK, Recipient of the Order Of Luthu...

Journalist, editor, lecturer, lawyer, radio programme producer, member of the ANC, politician and former speaker of the ...

ANC, Congress of Democrats, SACP and Umkhonto we Sizwe member, geologist

exile, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe

South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner

Journalist, author, TV producer, editor, member of the ANC, worked for the National Intelligence Agency and the SAB...

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa, specialised midwife, politically active in the Federation of South Africa...

Member of the Communist Party in Cape Town and after her marriage became a member of the Natal India...

Organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League and Trade Unionist.

Former South African High Commissioner to Mozambique, provincial secretary of the Federation of Transvaal Women, banned ...

Book collector, historian, writer and antiquarian

Former South African ambassador to Denmark, Politician, member of the Soweto Youth Congress, ANC and MK

Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto. Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. ...

Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Worke...

An active trade unionist and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), she received military training in Angola and the Soviet U...

Politcal activist and newspaper publisher

Member of Congress of Democrats and British Communist Party, member of the technical unit of the South African Communist...

ANC member, anti-apartheid activist, and political prisoner who went into exile in London. She was later assassinated in...

Teacher, social worker, political activist, political prisoner, banned person, trade unionist, founder member of the Con...

Executive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, founder member of the South African Congress of Tr...

Trade unionist, political detainee, banned person, member of the ANC, ANCWL, SACP, FSAW and the UWO, Member of Parliamen...

Founding member of the Liberal Party, Anti-apartheid activist, President of the Black Sash and Founding member of the Wo...

Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian author who focused on the conditions of women. 

Educationist, lecturer, Deputy Chief Whip of the ANC and former Minister of Education.

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johan...

Nurse, chairperson of the George Goch branch of the ANCYL, founder member of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the ...

Political activist, member of the TIYC and TIC, treasurer of FEDSAW, patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women, arrest...

Trade Unionist, Deputy President COSATU, member of the ANC and Member of Parliament, Minister of Human Settlements.