Women

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

South African political activist.

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

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

Daughter, activist and poet

Musician and Singer, exiled person

Narrator, Actress 

Member of the Companions Catholic Order, helped form local women’s organisations in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was...

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...

Political activist and health practitioner

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

Medical doctor, community activist and author.

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

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

Poet, playwright and short story writer.

The first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa, founder member of the Young Women’s Christian Ass...

Professor, neurologist, psychiatrist, human rights activist, led the medical ethics inquiry into the death of Steve Biko...

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

British welfare campaigner who is primarily remembered for her work related to British concentration camps in South Afri...

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

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

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 ...

Actress and teacher

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

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

Vice-President of NUSAS, President of NUSWEL, member of the executive committee of the Industrial Aid Society ...

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

Inkatha Freedom Party student activist, teacher, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member, IFP Secretary, IFP Women’s Brigade ...

Journalist, a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists and a member of the Writer’s Association of South Africa...

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.

Community worker. 

Scottish and a wife of Tiyo Soga a South Africa Presbyterian.

Artist, educator

Photographer