South African Communist Party (SACP)

Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Tr...

Trade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist

Member of the ANC and MK, Deputy-Secretary General of the ANC, Deputy President of South Africa, President of South Afri...

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

Member of the TIC, SACP, MK and ANC, Member of Parliament, recipient of The National Order of Luthuli in Silver

Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe, South African Communist Pa...

Teacher, shopkeeper, member of the ANC and SACP, community activist

Teacher, lawyer, university lecturer, author, member of the NEUM, NIC, SACP, ANC and MK, Recipient of the Order Of Luthu...

ANC, Congress of Democrats, SACP and Umkhonto we Sizwe member, geologist

South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner

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

Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Worke...

Member of Congress of Democrats and British Communist Party, member of the technical unit of the South African Communist...

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johan...

Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party, founding member of the F...

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...

Lawyer and Chairman of the SACP

Teacher, member of the South African Communist Party, first political detainee to die at the hands of the Security Polic...

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

A Leading member of Congress of Democrats and political activist who was sentenced with Mandela and others to life impri...

Teacher, political activist,  trade unionist, banned person, political prisoner, exile, President of the Transvaal ...

Political activist, member of the South African Communist Party and the Federation of South African Women.

Journalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee, political prisoner and defendant i...

Teacher, political activist, political prisoner, member of the COD, SACP and ANC, author, journalist, Editor of Sechaba

Member of the African National Congress, business woman, Governor of the Reserve Bank.

Teacher, member of SACTU, SACP and ANC.

Political activist, member of ANC, MK, UDF and SACP, Democratic Party Member of Parliament, Vice President of UDF

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

A veteran of the South African liberation struggle, Treason Trialist, long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island a...

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

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

Artist, industrial designer, architect, member of MK, political prisoner and lecturer 

Political activist and trade unionist (1950s)

Trade Unionist, member of the East London Worker’s Civic League and Secretary of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) in 1954...