Treason Trial

Organiser for the African Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, member of the ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, Treasur...

Trade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist

General secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and Treasurer General of the African National Congress 

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

Surveyor, lecturer and secretary of the COD, arrested for treason in 1956, trade union organiser, elected unop...

Member of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Author.

Writer, member of the SACP, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the 19...

Activist, Trade Unionist, Treason Trialist, Political Prisoner and later Member of Parliament.

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

Parliamentarian, lawyer and member of the UDF and ANC

journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP

Trade unionist, member of SACTU

ANC member and a leader of Orange Free State women in the anti-pass campaign

Attorney, Member of the South African Communist Party, National General Secretary of the National Union of Distributive ...

Trade unionist and shop steward for the Garment Workers’ Union, elected to the Transvaal executive of the African Nation...

Political activist, Member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) .

Arrested and detained for political activities

Medical doctor, co-founder and first chairperson of the Anti-Segregation Council, President of the NIC

Shop steward at African Tobacco Workers' Union, served on SACTU's executive committee, appointed to the ANC national exe...

Political leader, journalist, editor and an organiser for the Natal Indian Congress, the Communist Party and the Congres...

Member of the ANC and SACP, state witness in many political trials

Writer, Political Activist, Architect, SACP and MK member, banned person, politcal prisoner, exile,  recipient of The Or...

Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kim...

Member of the SAIC and the SACP, 1956 Treason Trialist

National organiser for the Labour Party, in 1952, President of the Congress of Democrats, President of the South African...

Teacher, member of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League. Bokala was active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, th...

Trade unionist and ANC member

Medical doctor, national treasurer of the ANC Youth League in 1950s, member of the ANC, 1956 Treason trialist.

Trade unionist, Chairperson of the African Textile Workers’ Union, 1956 Treason Trialist, President of SACTU, Robben Isl...

Member of the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU), active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, President of the Cap...

Trade unionist, African National Congress (ANC) activist and 1956 Treason Trial defendant and politician

Linotype operator and printer of The Guardian, Lee-Warden was elected as Native Representative for the Cape in 1954, and...

Doctor and ANC member 

Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal and 1956 Treason Trialist

Secretary of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Deputy volunteer-in-chief for the Transvaal in the 1952...

Member of the African National Congress national executive committee, defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial 

Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities.

Prominent Orange Free State ANC leader

Born in 1925, Motshabi worked as a clerk. He took part in the 1944 Alexandra Township bus boycott movement and the shant...

Active in politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African township of Korsten