Politics & Labour

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...

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

Member of Parliament. Vice Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, author, Recipient of the South Government's...

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...

State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1990 he opened negotiations with previously banned anti-apartheid ...

Medical doctor, politician and leader of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) and chairman of Anglo-American mining compa...

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

Poet, novelist, political and cultural activist, banned person, co-founder of Congress of South African Writers, worked ...

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

Teacher, member of SACTU, SACP and ANC.

Chairperson of Cosas and President of the African National Congress Youth League, Founding Member and President of the E...

Communist, political activist, 90 day detainee

Parliamentarian, lawyer and member of the UDF and ANC

Member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe, veterinarian, worked on the African National Congress farm...

Journalist, Native Representative in the House of Assembly,Western Cape, chief editor of the Guardian, editor of the Afr...

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

Medical doctor, Vice President of the Natal Indian Congress and a pioneer in women's resistance

Abdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat, AKM or “Doc” as he was popularly known, was one of the leading political activists in the N...

Medical doctor, member of the NEUM, Chairperson of the Durban APDUSA branch, banned person, political prisoner and exile...

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

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

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).

Trade unionist, political activist and civic leader.

Member of the African National Congress, member of the Executive Committee of the Black People’s Convention, founding me...

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

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

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.