Biography Index

Teacher and political activist. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) Hadebe served as Transvaal Provincial Secretary of the ANC during the 1950s. An accused in the Treason Trial, Hadebe left South Africa to serve as an ANC representative internationally during his exile.

Political activist, dentist and political detainee.

Political prisoner, banned, exiled person, Anti Apartheid activist

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

Headed the African National Congress Women's League, fund raiser for the ANC, founder of the popular Zenzele self-help movement, president of the national council of the South African Young Women's Christian Association

Botswana raid by SANDF

Former United Nations Secretary General

Part of the End Conscription Campaign and SAUJS

A member of the African National Congress, was involved in intelligence.

Afrikaans theatrical pioneer and actor

A member of the ANC and banished person

A Journolist

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

A member of the CPSA and the ANC.

Intellectual and revolutionary. Member of the SACP and  MK’s High Command.

Revolutionary, trade unionist and SACP member

Teacher, a member of the executive committee of the Liberal Party in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee. 

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa

A member of the African National Congress, also detained but given a suspended sentence.

Documentary photographer and member of Afrapix photographic collective

Brutaly murdered by Police

Member of ANC, MK and PEBCO, Robben Island prisoner, General Secretary of PEBCO, member of UDF, one of the ‘PEBCO Three’

Labour activist, first women leader of SACWU and vice-president of SACTU

Artist

Lawyer, member of the Non European Unity Movement, Progressive Forum, the Coloured Peoples Congress, Africa Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), and the Society of Young Africa

Lawyer, freedom fighter, founding member of APDUSA and Robben Island prisoner

Medical doctor and political activist, detained in Durban without trial in 1960 and moved to London in 1965

Photograher.

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

Teacher, author and journalist

Political journalist

Social anthropologist, academic, member of the SAIRR and the Progressive Party

Missionary of London Missionary Society; Spent years doing missionary work at Hope Fountain, Bulawayo; King Lobengula’s interpreter and adviser, thought to be the man behind the origins of the Rhodesian Ridgeback dog.

Lawyer, trade union and labour activist.

Saxophone player known as the “King of Langarm”, a popular form of South African Coloured dance music

Politician and former Labour Party leader

Revonia Trialist and Lawyer

Trade unionist, socialist, member of the anti-fascist movement, Member of the Transvaal Provincial Parliament, founder and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South African Defence and Aid Fund, writer and author.

South African writer, engineer and anti-apartheid activist

Lawyer, judge and South African Prime Minister

fhampion SA Tennis player

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the South African Communist Party (SACP)

A member of South African Communist Party (SACP), executive member of the Native Trade Assistance Union, the Jewish Workers Club, Springbok Legion and the Congress of Democrats, South Africa's first 180 day prisoner, political prisoner  

South African swimmer

A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM).

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

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

Photographer, member of Afrapix.

 Historian, editor, member of the COD, NCL and ARM, a political activist, exiled person, physics lecturer

Ndeutala Hishongwa is an author and scholar and was active in the liberation struggle through SWAPO.

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

Banished person.

Banished person.

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

Artist

artist

UNITA ambushes

artist, educator 

Banished person.

Artist

British welfare campaigner who is primarily remembered for her work related to British concentration camps in South Africa.

South African painter

Photographer

An architect

A member of South African Congress of Democrats (COD), and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

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

Artist

Medical specialist, professor, author, member of the Liberal Party, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the National Union of South African Students, Chairperson of the Defence and Aid Fund, banned person, exile, internationally renowned clinical endocr

Afrikaner cultural activist

Member of the ANC, Political prisoner, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. 

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and the African National Congress (ANC). Detained for seven years.

Journalist, imprisoned for underground politcal activities

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

A member of South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

Journalist and author

Awarded the Order of Mendi for Bravery in Silver for providing shelter to orphaned children and sacrificing her own life to save the lives of the children in her care.

Artist

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

South African linocut artist and teacher

Chief of the AmaGebe Tribe. Chair of the Joint Constitutional Review Committee. He is President of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa. Holomisa is a member of the Unitra Council in the Eastern Cape.

Major General (retired) of the Transkei Defence Force, Chairman of the Military Council of Transkei, leader of the Transkei delegation to CODESA, Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism of South Africa, co-founder of the United Democratic Movement (

Educator, businessman and political activist. member of AAC, CATA and TLSA

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

Member of the Springbok Legion and Congress of Democrats (CoD), accused in the Treason Trial of 1956.

Artist (print-making), Lecturer and member of the South African Society of Artists

Trade unionist and interntiona co-ordinator of StreetNet

Architect, anti-apartheid activist, member of the SACP, Treason trialist

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

Member of the CPSA, architect, 1956 Treason trialist

A member of the Young Communist League (YCL), based in the United Kingdom.

Prominent activist in the struggle against racial segregation in competitive sports during apartheid

Teacher and First South African Professional ballet dancer

Anglican priest, author, one of the first recipients of the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award, Chair of the Trustees of the International Defenc

ffrikaans actor, producer, manager and writer.

Sugar farmer, Vice President of the NIC 

A catholic Archbishop

Missionary and social reformer

Teacher, author, 1956 Treason trialist, member of the ANC.

Photographer, performance artist and activist