Biography Index

Teacher, Photographer

Member of Communist Party of South Africa, specialised midwife, politically active in the Federation of South African Women, detained, banned, exiled in the United Kingdom, returned to Cape Town in 1992.

Writer, member of the SACP, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial, chief representative of the African National Congress in the Caribbean

Trade unionist and political activist, member of the ICU, CPSA and the ANC

Member of the African National Congress, the United Democratic Front (UDF), a Congress of the People volunteer and Anti-Apartheid activist. 

finister of religion and politician.

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

Professor Landau is an historian of culture and politics in southern Africa.

Robben Island prisoner, MEC in the Western Cape government

School teacher, husband, father, anti-Apartheid activist, exile.

Schoolteacher, anti-apartheid activist, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

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) and the African Resistance Movement (ARM)

Secretary General and Cultural Officer of SASO, political activist, poet, member of MK and the ANC

Deputy President Constitutional Court, Deputy Chief Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, and Chief Justice and head of the Constitutional Court.

poet, novelist, editor

Artist

Artist

Author and zoologist, first women to recieve a doctorate from Stellenbosch University

Paint salesman, Artist, teacher, founder and director of the Ruth Prowse Art Centre.

South African Artist whose paintings are now much sought-after

Photographer

flemish elocutionist and teacher.

Photographer and a member of Afrapix

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Banned by the apartheid government.

Leader in the Africanist movement and National Secretary in the Pan Africanist Congress, serving as its secretary general from its founding in April 1959, and later as its acting president in exile.

banished person

Photographer

ANC, SACP and MK activist

Linotype operator and printer of The Guardian, Lee-Warden was elected as Native Representative for the Cape in 1954, and a member of the Congress of Democrats. Lee- Warden was one of the accused in the 1956 Treason Trial.

Former ANC youth league member who was one of the group of Africanists that broke away to form the PAC, prisoner on Robben Island

Author, exile, President of NUSAS, member of the African Resistance Movement, Lecturer in Politics

South African sculptor and painter whose work provides a harsh social commentary on life under apartheid

Miner, Worker, Marikana Casualty

Miner, Worker, Marikana Casuality

Sculptor

Bishop and leader of St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove).

Painter

member of SASO, the UDF and the ANC.  Politician, President and Leader of the Congress of the People since 16 December 2008.

Political Activist.

Photographer

ANCYL secretary, political prisoner, banned and banishedperson

Former leader of the Democratic Alliance

trader and national ANC deputy-speaker

Trade unionist, political detainee, banned person, member of the ANC, ANCWL, SACP, FSAW and the UWO, Member of Parliament, recipient of Provincial and National Government Awards. 

Businessman

Court interpreter, journalist and political activist and founding member of the ANC

Doctor and ANC member 

Member of the CPSA 

member of the ANCYL and later the PAC

Painter

NUSAS Projects Officer and External Vice President, founding member of SSD, a member of UWO, Five Freedoms Foundation and the Australian Labour Party

Aubrey Levin was a psychiatrist who worked in the South African Defence Force (SADF) where he earned the nickname “Dr Shock” for his use of electro-convulsive shocks on gay and lesbian conscripts under the guise of curing them of their homosexuality. 

Photographer

Political activist, administered the 1956 Treason Trial Defence Fund and IDAF worker

Trade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist

Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the African Resistance Movement and the Liberal Party of South Africa, recipient of the Olive Schreiner Prize for his prison memoir Bandiet Out of Jail and the Alan Paton Award for Stones against the Mirror, recipient of the International Human Rights Book Award for Stones against the Mirror, media trainer

Artist

A member of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Cartoonist

Miner, Worker, Marikana Casuality

member and chaplain of the ANC

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

Banished person

Member of the CPSA, member of the ANC, author, teacher, intellectual and architect

Banished person

Worked at a cotton mill company while at school, Trained as a Medical doctor, Missionary of the London Missionary Society (LMS), Explorer.

The first non-white South African cricketer. 

A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM)

Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal and 1956 Treason Trialist

Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal and 1956 Treason Trialist

Working class martyr, trade unionist and communist

Educationist

ANC operative and charged with treason

Politician and a diplomat

Artist

Photographer

Agent infiltrated into MK, Liliesleaf Raid

Trade unionist and ICU Branch Secretary

First Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (now called Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Photographer

Photographer

Teacher and farmer, wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli, community leader, involved in the ANC and Daughters of Africa.

Farmer, wagon maker, Chief and founder of the Natal Native Congress

Businessman, former President of SARFU and politician