Lives of courage

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

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

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

Political activist, political prisoner, organised women resisters from the Asiatic Bazaar for the 1946 Passive Resistanc...

Member of the Housewives League and the South African Federation of Democratic Women, co-founder of the Non-European Sol...

Nursing sister, woman activist, for her outstanding contribution to the struggle for liberation and for the ideals of a ...

Political activist, Member of the Union of Jewish Women, regional secretary of the Federation of South African Women and...

Political prisoner, Member of the SACP, National Executive Committee member of the ANC Women’s League, ANC Provincial Ex...

Human rights lawyer and underground ANC operative; member of the South African Law Commission; former Member of Parliame...

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

 Journalist, a member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Political prisoner, banned person, member of the ANC, ANCWL, FEDSAW, UWCO and SANSCO, Vice Chairperson of UWO and recipi...

Human rights activist, anti-apartheid activist, member of the ANC, the ANCWL and MK, involved in 1956 Women’s March, 195...

Teacher, member of the Communist Party of South Africa, Franchise Action Program and the South African Coloured People’s...

Anti-apartheid activist, Black Sash member, founder of the Donald Woods Foundation, charity campaigner

leader of the Garment Workers Union, convenor of first conference of the Federation of South African Women, prominent ro...

Anti-apartheid activist, gender activist, member of the BCM, SASO, TECON, WIASA, and PETT, banned and house-arrested for...

Lecturer, journalist, author, for her contribution to the struggle for liberation, democracy and human rights, and for w...

A member of South African Congress of Democrats (COD), and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Radiographer, literacy director of SASO, political prisoner, banned person

Physiotherapist, political prisoner

Political activist, political prisoner and nurse. 

Member of the ANC and MK, political detainee

Member of the NEUM and TLSA, Editor of the Educational Journal, teacher political activist, political detainee, member o...

Nurse, lecturer, consultant in development studies, National President of the YWCA of South Africa, Regional Director of...

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) and the Black Sash, political prisoner, worked at Defence and Aid, ...

political activist, member of the South African Communist Party, lecturer, author, gender activist, played a key part i...

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

President of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the then ‘non-European’ SRC at Nata...

Editor and political activist, member of the NIC and son of Mahatma Gandhi.

Member of the national executive committee of the ANC, leader of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra Township,  Treasurer-...

member of the TIYC, TIC and the ANC, Coordinator of the Somafco Collection, Batlagae Trust, worked at the Department of ...

Political activist, member of TIC and MK

MK Gandhi’s South African Secretary

Shop steward at African Tobacco Workers' Union, served on SACTU's executive committee, appointed to the ANC national exe...

Political activist, Member of the ANC, MK and SACP, Rivonia Trialist and Robben Island prisoner.

Pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South A...

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

Teacher, member of Teachers League of South Africa, African Peoples Union of Southern Africa, political prisoner, banned...