political prisoner

Political activist, political prisoner, banned person, exile, teacher, involved in the revival of the Natal Indian Congr...

Teacher, political activist,  trade unionist, banned person, political prisoner, exile, President of the Transvaal ...

Political activist, member of the South African Communist Party and the Federation of South African Women.

Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist

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

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

Member of the ‘Upington 14', political prisoner

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

Writer, women's rights campaigner, ANC member and politician

General Secretary of the National Union of South African Students, Member of the United Democrat

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

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

Trade unionist, member of the NIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Assistant Secretary of the Natal Indian Farmers Union, accused in t...

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...

Vice-President of NUSAS, President of NUSWEL, member of the executive committee of the Industrial Aid Society ...

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

Journalist, a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists and a member of the Writer’s Association of South Africa...

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

Chair of the Greyville Branch of the NIC, NIC delegate to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, Member of the NIC, MK, A...

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.

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

Teacher, political activist, political prisoner, member of the COD, SACP and ANC, author, journalist, Editor of Sechaba

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

Anti-apartheid activist; teacher; during the Passive Resistance Campaign in 1946, she and Mrs Thayanayagie Pillay, organ...

Communist, political activist, 90 day detainee

Poet, musician, painter, historian, teacher, philosopher

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

Trade unionist, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the ANC (African National Congress), political pr...

Artist, industrial designer, architect, member of MK, political prisoner and lecturer 

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

Trade Unionist, member of the East London Worker’s Civic League and Secretary of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) in 1954...

Political Activist.

Trade Unionist, Garment Worker’s Union, Playright

Member of the Textile Workers Union, member of the Black Sash, and anti-apartheid activist and communist proponent.

Political and women's activist and trade unionist

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

Member of the ANC, Political prisoner, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. 

Journalist

ANC operative and charged with treason