Women

Political activist and trade unionist (1950s)

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

Politician, Premier of the Eastern Cape Province and former Minister of Sport and Art and Culture in the Eastern Cape Pr...

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with h...

anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, arrested, General Secretary of the African Food and Canning Workers Union, bann...

Trade Unionist, member of the East London Worker’s Civic League and Secretary of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) in 1954...

Head of Independent Electoral Commission

Jazz singer

Political Activist and ANC member

Political Activist and Trade unionist (1960's)

Political Activist.

author, literator, journalist, editor, academic, first woman to become Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch

music lecturer,  founder of the Young Citizen’s Orchestra, served on executive council of the Johannesburg Music So...

Commonwealth and African High Jump Record Holder, recipient of the National order for excellence in sports

Teacher and headmistress

Trade Unionist, Garment Worker’s Union, Playright

Trade unionist, member of SACTU

Member of the Textile Workers Union, member of the Black Sash, and anti-apartheid activist and communist proponent.

anti-Apartheid activist.

Political and women's activist and trade unionist

Artist and underground ANC activist

ANC member, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Health, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chair of the African Union

Politcal activist, member of ANC Women's League

Teacher, politcal activist and leader of the women's organisation Black Sash.

Trade unionist

Member of NUSAS, SASO, UWO, co-ordinator of the SACTWU Welfare Trust and a trade unionist

Singer and educationist

first woman trade unionist, first woman printer and first woman city councillor.

Artist, founding member of the Simon van der Stel Foundation and a trustee and life president of the Friends of the Joha...

Social anthropologist, academic, member of the SAIRR and the Progressive Party

Member of the ANC, Political prisoner, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. 

Trade unionist and interntiona co-ordinator of StreetNet

Journalist

Trade unionist, SACTU member and 1956 Treason trialist

Teacher, member of SASO and the ANC, head of the Medu Arts Ensemble (Gaborone), Member of COSAW, Secretary General of th...

Medical doctor and surgeon who pioneered techniques of diagnosing suspected leprosy, worked with leprosy patients in var...

Artist

Photographer and a member of Afrapix

ANC operative and charged with treason

Deputy Director of the Frelimo Secondary School in Tanzania, member of Frelimo's Central Committee and the Minister ...