Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in Chief, 1956 Treason Trialist, R...
Politician and anti-apartheid activist, Treason Trialist and President of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's Le...
Participated in the Defiance Campaign in 1952, which led to her being banned, worked underground with the FEDSAW, ...
Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...
Member of the Communist Party in Cape Town and after her marriage became a member of the Natal India...
President of NUSAS, political activist, political detainee, banned person and exiled person.
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 ...
Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, South African Communist Pa...
Medical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social Reform Society, Chair of the Mad...
Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Worke...
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...
Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johan...
Political activist, member of the TIYC and TIC, treasurer of FEDSAW, patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women, arrest...
ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of...
Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Tr...
Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party, founding member of the F...
Member of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Author.
Political activist and a member of the African National Congress' armed wing, uMkhonto weSizwe and its National Executiv...
Political activist, former treasurer of the United Democratic Front, Judge and Law Expert.
Founder member of Qibla, member of the PAC, Robben Island political prisoner and advisor to the Islamic Human Rights Com...
Political activist and exile. A leading member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the African National Congress. Promi...
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Albertina Sisulu 'the mother of the nation', activist and nurse, who has struggled for her whole life human rights and d...
Teacher, lecturer, banned person, author, advocate of multilingualism in post-apartheid South Africa, a strong proponent...
Women’s rights activist, trade unionist, shop steward, founder member of the Federation of South African Women, member o...
Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist
Political Activist.
Journalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee, political prisoner and defendant i...
Teacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of the African National Congress Wom...
Anti-apartheid activist, women’s rights activist, labour activist, member of the CPSA and Transvaal All-Women’s Union, f...
She joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, and in 1954 participated in the establishment of the ANC Women’s...
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
Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.
President of the Cape ANCYL and the Chair of the ANC in East London, an organiser of the 1950 and 1952 Defiance Campaign...
A member of both the South African Congress of Democrats and the South African Communist Party.
Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...
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