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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Biography
Jun 28, 2011

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in Chief, 1956 Treason Trialist, R...

Lilian Masediba Ngoyi
Biography
Sep 22, 2011

Lilian Masediba Ngoyi

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

Florence Mkhize
Biography
Aug 27, 2011

Florence Mkhize

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

Stephen Bantu Biko
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Stephen Bantu Biko

Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...

Fatima Seedat
Biography
Oct 08, 2011

Fatima Seedat

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

Neville Wilson Curtis
Biography
Feb 26, 2013

Neville Wilson Curtis

President of NUSAS, political activist, political detainee, banned person and exiled person.  

Frances Baard
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Frances Baard

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

Jessie Yasmin Duarte
Biography
Apr 03, 2019

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

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

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan
Biography
Sep 26, 2013

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan

Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, South African Communist Pa...

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo

Medical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social Reform Society, Chair of the Mad...

Ray Alexander Simons
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Ray Alexander Simons

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

Dulcie Evonne September
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Dulcie Evonne September

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

Helen Joseph
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Helen Joseph

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

Sheila Weinberg
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Sheila Weinberg

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

Amina Cachalia
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Amina Cachalia

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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

Joe Slovo
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Joe Slovo

Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Tr...

Hilda Bernstein
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Hilda Bernstein

Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party, founding member of the F...

Ruth First
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Ruth First

Member of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Author.

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj
Biography
Jul 13, 2011

Satyandranath “Mac” Maharaj

Political activist and a member of the African National Congress' armed wing, uMkhonto weSizwe and its National Executiv...

Azhar Cachalia
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Azhar Cachalia

Political activist, former treasurer of the United Democratic Front, Judge and Law Expert.

Achmad Cassiem
Biography
Mar 19, 2012

Achmad Cassiem

Founder member of Qibla, member of the PAC, Robben Island political prisoner and advisor to the Islamic Human Rights Com...

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Ismail Ahmed Cachalia

Political activist and exile. A leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the African National Congress. Promi...

Dawood Ismail Cajee
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Dawood Ismail Cajee

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Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
Biography
Jun 30, 2011

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

Albertina Sisulu 'the mother of the nation', activist and nurse, who has struggled for her whole life human rights and d...

Dr. Neville Edward Alexander
Biography
May 28, 2012

Dr. Neville Edward Alexander

Teacher, lecturer, banned person, author, advocate of multilingualism in post-apartheid South Africa, a strong proponent...

Lillian Diedericks
Biography
Apr 18, 2020

Lillian Diedericks

Women’s rights activist, trade unionist, shop steward, founder member of the Federation of South African Women, member o...

Adelaine Florence Hain
Biography
Sep 18, 2019

Adelaine Florence Hain

Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist

Yusuf Cachalia
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Yusuf Cachalia

Political Activist.

Fred Carneson
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Fred Carneson

Journalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee, political prisoner and defendant i...

Florence Matomela
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Florence Matomela

Teacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of the African National Congress Wom...

Josie Palmer
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Josie Palmer

Anti-apartheid activist, women’s rights activist, labour activist, member of the CPSA and Transvaal All-Women’s Union, f...

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe

She joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, and in 1954 participated in the establishment of the ANC Women’s...

Sonia Beryl Bunting
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Sonia Beryl Bunting

Member of the SACP, Founder member of the Cape Town Friends of Cuba Society

Mary Dorothy Benson
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Mary Dorothy Benson

Author, journalist, anti-apartheid activist, co-founded the Africa Bureau, first person to record the ANC’s history

Professor Fatima Meer
Biography
Jun 29, 2011

Professor Fatima Meer

Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.

Alcott Skei Gwentshe
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

President of the Cape ANCYL and the Chair of the ANC in East London, an organiser of the 1950 and 1952 Defiance Campaign...

Bernard Louis Gosschalk
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Bernard Louis Gosschalk

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

Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
Biography
Feb 17, 2011

Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein

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

Frederick  Gqola
Biography
Aug 22, 2019

Frederick Gqola

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