political prisoner

Member of Non European Unity Movement (NEUM), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, poet, and author

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

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...

Teacher, lecturer, lawyer,  Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC branch in Standerton, founding...

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

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

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...

"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he...

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

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

Community activist, political prisoner, member of the United Democratic Front and the African National Congress, Cape To...

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...

South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner

Journalist, author, TV producer, editor, member of the ANC, worked for the National Intelligence Agency and the SAB...

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

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

Poet, novelist, writer and political prisoner

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

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...

Trade unionist, political detainee, banned person, member of the ANC, ANCWL, SACP, FSAW and the UWO, Member of Parliamen...

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...

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

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...

Student leader, teacher, General Secretary of the UDF, member of UWO and General Secretary of FEDSAW, Member of the SACP...

Lawyer, political prisoner, Rivonia Trialist and exile

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

Political prisoner, exiled person, journalist, member of SASO and the ANC, Head of International Relations, ANC Womens L...

Vice President of the NIC,Member of the BC movement, Secretary of the BPC, Vice President of AZAPO, Vice Principal of UD...

Journalist, author, social activist, teacher, educator, broadcaster, political prisoner, banned person, exile, member of...

ANC Political Activist 

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Tr...

banned person, political prisoner, Member of SASO, BPC and BCP, medical doctor, academic, anthropologist, Vice Chancello...