Politics & Labour

Pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birt...

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

Member of the initial uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, exile

Trade unionist, leader in uMkhonto weSizwe and Member of Parliament.

Poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile, member of the African National Congress

Industrial Chemist, early childhood education practioner, Director of the Chatsworth Early Learning Centre, member of th...

Political Activist and political prisoner.

Member of the National Party, SA rugby captain, lecturer, reverend, ambassador to London and cabinet minister

Business person, NIC member, Joint Secretary of the SAIC 

ANC member and political activist

Teacher, farmer, secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council, secretary of the Passive Resistance Council of the Natal Ind...

Lawyer, secretary of the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council. Member of the executive committee of both the Natal India...

Member of AZASO, ANC and MK, death row political prisoner, Ekurhuleni Metro Police Commissioner

Founding member and national chairman of the South African Coloured People's Organisation, served in the navy in World W...

medical doctor, exile, member of the Unity Movement of South Africa and the African Peoples Democratic Union of South Af...

Barrister - member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the South African Indian Congress

Member of the ANCYL and ANC, former high commissioner and Chief of State Protocol, Recipient of the National Award from ...

Political activist, minister, chairman and founding official of SANROC, trade unionist, sportsman, educator. 

A passive resister from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng), Member of Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) an...

Teacher, author, director of Diakonia, political detainee, Executive member of the Natal UDF, Chair of the Denis Hurley ...

Teacher, exile, member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, organiser for the Teachers League of South Africa, membe...

Member of the Unity Movement of South Africa, Robben Island prisoner

Victim of the Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960

Leader of South Africa’s official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA).

Robben Island prisoner, MEC in the Western Cape government

Robben Island Prisoner

Political Activist.