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A self-taught, award winning artist and photographer. Badsha played an active role in the South African liberation strug...

Member of SASO, the UDF, the ANC and COPE.  Political prisoner, Politician, President and Leader of the Congress of...

Trade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist

Member of the ANC and MK, Deputy-Secretary General of the ANC, Deputy President of South Africa, President of South Afri...

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

Chairman of Military Committee in Maputo, Robben island prisoner, exile, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC Representative ...

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

Teacher, author, member of the African National Congress  and a member of the South African Communist Party 

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

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

Surveyor, lecturer and secretary of the COD, arrested for treason in 1956, trade union organiser, elected unop...

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

Academic, author, Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, the first black South African to hold this post in 102 years, Ed...

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

member of the ANC, political prisoner, banned person, exile, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist

Peace activist, Social Worker, Founder of Natal Organisation of Women,  member of the NIC, ANC and the UDF, Member ...

Anti-Apartheid activist, liberation struggle hero, Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress Youth Congress, involved in th...

Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the Afric...

ANC activist, political prisoner, ambassador, Member of Parliament .

Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist

Activist and Martyr. Died as a result of her participation in the South African liberation struggle.

Journalist, Native Representative in the House of Assembly,Western Cape, chief editor of the Guardian, editor of the Afr...

Political activist, worked with SACTU and a member of the Young Communist League (YCL) and the South African Communist P...

Medical doctor, Vice President of the Natal Indian Congress and a pioneer in women's resistance

Medical doctor, member of the NEUM, Chairperson of the Durban APDUSA branch, banned person, political prisoner and exile...

Important figure in the history of Satyagraha (passive resistance) in South Africa, member of the Executive of the Trans...

Member of NUSAS, ANC, SACP and MK, secretary of the United Women's Organisation of the Western Cape (UWO).

President of the Medical Students Representative Council at University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), membe...

Political activist, member of TIC and MK

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birt...

Teacher, author, director of Diakonia, political detainee, Executive member of the Natal UDF, Chair of the Denis Hurley ...