political prisoner

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

Trade Unionist

Political Activist, teacher and business owner.

Activist, Teacher, Director: Research coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation at Department of Basic Education. 

Editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.

Member of the ANC, member of the executive committee of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), defend...

  Tailor, member of the Industrial Workers’ Union (ICU), took part in campaigns against passes for women in

Full time organiser for the ANC, mobilised for the Congress of the People and the 1956 Women's March, headed the Women's...

Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, banned person

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

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

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

Labour activist, first women leader of SACWU and vice-president of SACTU

Journalist, trade unionist,  member of the  Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)  activist, member of the ANC and MK, Depu...

Member of the CPSA,  member of the National Council of Women, the Congress of Democrats, the Federation of South African...

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...

a member of Habonim, Modern Youth Society; social researcher; worked at the University of Cape Town’s Board of Studies; ...

Anti-apartheid activist, social worker, SSRC and SASM member, one of the student leaders of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, ba...

Trade unionist, member of the SACP, political activist, political prisoner, banned person and exile.

Political activist, banned person, political prisoner, member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, Federation of Sout...

Political activist, political prisoner, imprisoned  during  the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign and the 1952 Campaign...

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

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

Physiotherapist, political prisoner

  Political prisoner, took part in passive resistance.

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...

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

Political activist, member of TIC and MK

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

Anti-apartheid activist, ANC member, MK underground operative, Robben Island prisoner, recipient of the Government’s Nat...

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...

Political activist, political detainee, Deputy Director for communication in the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and...

Reverend Cedric Radcliffe Mayson, a former Methodist Minister was  restricted to Johannesburg. In 1973 he join...

Secretary of the Natal Indian Youth Congress, member of the Natal Indian Congress, among the earliest uMkhonto weSizwe r...