Politics & Labour

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...

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 ...

Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of ...

African National Congress Youth League president, African National Congress NWC member, Chairman of South African Studen...

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

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

Trade unionist, early member of SACTU, member of the CPSA and was the chair of the Durban District Committee from 1...

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...

exile, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe

Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...

Former South African High Commissioner to Mozambique, provincial secretary of the Federation of Transvaal Women, banned ...

Former South African ambassador to Denmark, Politician, member of the Soweto Youth Congress, ANC and MK

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

Executive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, founder member of the South African Congress of Tr...

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...

Anglican priest, author, one of the first recipients of the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award, Chair of the Trustees of the...

Poet, novelist, political activist, exile, member of the Black Consciousness Movement and African National Congress, Com...

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...

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

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

Advocate,Human Rights lawyer, Senior Counsel at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg in the Constitutional Un...

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

Minister of Education (1999 – 2004), Minister of Water Affairs,(1994 – 1999) and a member of Parliament in the National ...

reporter, founder member of the Union of Black Journalists in South Africa, exiled person, lecturer, International Educa...

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

Deputy General Secretary of SACP, Deputy Minister of Transport, theorist, poet and skilful writer. University Lecturer

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

Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist

Shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, helped organise...

Musician and Singer, exiled person