Biography Index

Graphic designer and ceramic sculptor

Unita Ambushes

Miner, Worker, Marikana Casuality

Trade unionist, member of the ANC and General Secretary of SACTU, Robben Island prisoner, banned person

Organising Secretary of PEBCO, member of UDF, one of the ‘Pebco Three’

Jazz musician and music educator

Training accident

Editor and political activist, member of the NIC and son of Mahatma Gandhi.

Politcal activist and newspaper publisher

Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known as Mahatma Gandhi, has not been studied much in works on Gandhi. There are few references to her life and role in the Mahatma’s life. However, she played an important part in independence and equality campaigns.

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government.

Banished person

Member of the ANCYL and ANC, political detainee, banished person

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA).

Rhodes scholar, member of the Liberal Party of South Africa, Professor of English, Dean of the Arts at UKZN, anti-apartheid activist, member of the Christian Institute and Justice and Peace Commission,

Inkatha Freedom Party student activist, teacher, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member, IFP Secretary, IFP Women’s Brigade chairperson, member of the IFP delegation to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), IFP Member of Parliament in the National Assembly, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal.

South African Politician and former Parliamentarian.

Member of the Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU), active in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, President of the Cape Branch of the African National Congress (ANC), accused in the Treason Trial.

Robben Island prisoner

A member of the South African Congress of Democrats, South African Communist Party, and the Pan Africanist Congress

Member of the ANCWL, one of the organisers of the 1956 Women’s March against the pass system, political prisoner and recipient of the Order of Luthuli in Bronze.

Artist

SADF Raids

Journalist

Unita ambushes

Given life imprisonment 

Imprisoned for ten years

• Former Commodore in the South African Navy
• Commander of the strategic Simon’s Town naval dockyard
• Arrested by the FBI in New York City in 1983 following information obtained from a Soviet defector.
• Convicted of high treason as a Soviet spy in South Africa together with his second wife, Ruth, who had acted as his courier. Both were released prior to the change of government following the 1994 general election.

Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mandela.

Businessperson, Vice-President of the NIC, passive resister, political prisoner, philanthropist. 

South African cricket player

African National Congress Youth League president, African National Congress NWC member, Chairman of South African Student Congress and the Minister for Public Enterprises.

Banished person

Member of the African National Congress

Nurse, pathologist, attorney, land rights activist, Land Claims Commissioner, Regional Director of the Legal Resources Centre 

Artist

Journalist, editor, lecturer, lawyer, radio programme producer, member of the ANC, politician and former speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa 1994-2004, chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal 2005-2009

Artist

Photographer.

Teacher, former Deputy President of PAC, Member of Parliament, founding President of the African Peoples Convention (APC) and Chairperson of SCOPA

President of PEBCO, member of the UDF, one of the ‘Pebco Three’

Political activist

Member if the Commuist Party of South Africa

A Member of South African Congress of Democrats.

A member of the SACP and part of the Guardian

A member of the South African Congress of Democrats and the Federation of South African Women

A Leading member of Congress of Democrats and political activist who was sentenced with Mandela and others to life imprisonment at the Rivonia Treason Trial. After his release he went into exile in London and returned to SA in 2002

Documentary photographer

school principal, editor, involved in politics

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

Former South African Constitutional Court judge.

Trade unionist, member of the SACP, NLL and ANC

fabour and Politics: A leader of the Labour Movement, an activist and a leader of the ANC and the SACP.

Member of the ANC and MK, exiled person, killed in combat.

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), banned by the apartheid government.

Painter

Leader of the NLL and NEUF, member of the FAC, advocate and representative on the Cape Town City Council.

Physician, member of the All African Convention committee, President of the NLL and politician, founder of the anti-CAD and Vice President of the NEUM

Political activist, founding member of the NEUM and APDUSA

Pharmacist, member of the Natal Indian Congress, African National Congress, uMkhonto weSizwe,   South African Communist Party and United Democratic Front, political prisoner, banned, key figure in the ANC underground Operation Vula, NIC/TIC delegate to the steering committee responsible for organising Codesa 1, Co-chairperson of the Transitional Executive Council (1991 – 1994), which prepared the country for the 1994 elections, Chairperson of the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly, Commissioner of South African Revenue Services, Chairperson of the World Customs Organization, ANC Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister

Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A member of both the South African Congress of Democrats and the South African Communist Party.

Political activist, Member of the Union of Jewish Women, regional secretary of the Federation of South African Women and member of the Communist Party of South Africa.   

SADF raids

Teacher, journalist, playwright, novelist, founder of the Shah Theatre Academy, Marketing Manager of the Baxter Theatre, Director of Durban's Playhouse Theatre, recipient of the President's National Award for Theatre, former Vice-President of the Natal Congress of South African Writers (COSAW).

Clergyman, principal and political activist

Opera singer and Social Worker

Photographer, reporter, member of the ANC and MK

Author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagonmaker

Soldier, social research assistant, social worker, location superintendent member of the ANCYL, ANC, POQO and PAC, awarded the Companion of The Order of Luthuli in Silver. 

Former Ciskei military ruler.

Political activist

advocate, farmer and leader of the United Party.

Anti apartheid activist and ANC member.

Artist

South African Artist, Painter, Activist and Documentary Photographer

Soldier, High Commissioner of the Cape and Governor of New Zealand

Controversial theatre and television playwright

Artist

Artist

frtist

Parliamentarian, lawyer and member of the UDF and ANC

Political activist, founder member of the Natal Native Congress and founder member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, now ANC). He was a teacher, politician, businessman and journalist, sometimes incorrectly referred to as 'James' Gu

Print maker and sculptor

South African jazz bass guitarist

Carpenter and sculptor

Member of the ANC and MK, political detainee

Artist, founding member of the Simon van der Stel Foundation and a trustee and life president of the Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. 

Poet, Writer, Editor, Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, and Contributor for the Black Review, contributor to Staffrider, Produced two collections of poetry and collaborated on a third with Liz Gunner.

Teacher, member of SACTU, SACP and ANC.

Jazz Artist, Composer, Musical Director

Miner, Worker, Casualty

President of the Cape ANCYL and the Chair of the ANC in East London, an organiser of the 1950 and 1952 Defiance Campaign, a banned and  banished person. 

Unita Ambushes

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.