Biography Index

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

A businessman

Member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and member of the ANC NEC

Founder and leading theoretician of the Non-European Unity Movement

Member of SACP, National Secretary of FSAW, member of the ANC Women’s League 

Political activist, trade unionist and community leader

Nurse, chairperson of the George Goch branch of the ANCYL, founder member of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the Pan-African Women's Organisation (PAWO), national Treasurer of the ANC Women’s League, ANC MP, the So

Activist, Filmmaker, TV-personality, businessman and son of the late Oliver Tambo.

Banished person

Insurance agent, helped Clements Kadalie to establish the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in Johannesburg. Was posted to Witbank as a full-time ANC organiser for the eastern Transvaal. When the short-lived League of African Rights was set up by the Communist Party (CPSA) in 1929, Tantsi became one of its leaders, composed the popular political song "Mayibuye", member of the Transvaal ANC executive committee, chaplain, acting Transvaal ANC president, Elder in the AME Church, author, PAC sympathiser

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Springbok Legion

Member of the Lenin Club, Founder member of the Non European Unity Movement and Author.

Banished person.

artist

Member of the PAC, former political prisoner on Robben Island and he was the Deputy Secretary General of PAM. 

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the Central Committee in Johannesburg, organizer for the Federation of Non-European Trade Unions, chairman of the African General Workers' Union in Pretoria. Banned in the 1950s

Dutch Reformed minister, founder and later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation, served as chairman of a committee in the Transvaal charged with reviving the African National Congress (ANC) after it had become dormant under Pixley Seme's leadership.

Christian missionary who dedicated her life to helping the downtrodden, especially women prostitutes in Cape Town.

Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader.

Former Executive Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement

President of the Western Cape ANC and editor

Banished person

Former Mayor of Soweto

Scientist and lecturer

feterinary Scientist.

Minor, Worker, Casualty

Chairperson of the committee that drew up a new constitution for the South African Native National Congress,editor of The Bantu World,served on the Native Representative Council (NRC), representing the rural areas of the Transvaal and the

South African writer.

Member of the International Socialist League in the Cape, supervisor of the CPSA's night school in Ferreirastown, Johannesburg, elected to the CPSA's Central Executive Committee, General Secretary of the Federation of Non-European Trade Union

Member of the PAC, political detainee, chairman of the South African National Editors' Forum(SANEF), president of the Union of Black Journalists and Media Workers Association of South Africa and press ombudsman

Boxer, funeral director.

Religious leader, Treason Trialist, Political activist and political detainee

A part of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD), South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Modern Youth Society (MYS)

South African artist.

SA thlete and first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in 1996

Member of the ANC and a banished person.

Banished person.

member of the TIYC, TIC and the ANC, Coordinator of the Somafco Collection, Batlagae Trust, worked at the Department of National Education, member of the ANC’s Archives’ Committee and the Archives at Fort Hare University and is a trustee of Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust. 

Leader of the first major secessionist church in South Africa, minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church,  established his own Tembu Church

Photographer

Teacher, member of the South African Communist Party, first political detainee to die at the hands of the Security Police at the notorious John Vorster Police Station, Johannesburg 

ANC Political Activist

Lawyer and trade union activist

Political activist, teacher, member of the South African Students Organisation and Black Consciousness Movement, SASO’s Permanent Organiser, Honorary President of the Southern African Students’ Movement, exiled person, killed by a parcel bomb. 

A member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

Chair of the Independent Electoral Commission, Chair of the University of North-West Council and Advocate of the supreme court of South Africa.

Novelist, short-story writer and the first Black woman in South Africa to publish a novel.

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

 
Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Human Biology and anti–apartheid academic

Chair of NUSAS, medical doctor, palaeo-anthropologist, lecturer, author, geneticist, scientist, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, head of the research department at the Sterkfontein Caves

Deputy Chairman of the Modern Youth Society (MYS), Founder member of the Ovamboland People’s Congress (OPC), Member of the Peoples Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) and the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO)

Author

Pioneer trade unionist and NUMSA leader.

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), active in the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union and the African National Congress

A South African born painter and sculptor

Former Conservative Party Leader.

A member of African Resistance Movement (ARM) and the African National Congress (ANC). Detained for three years.

A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)

Parliamentary Messenger who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.

Banished person.

fedical doctor

Clerk, Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown, chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s, Chairman of the ANC Veterans League

Member and Chairman of COSAS, member of the African National Congress and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). 

Exiled ANC leader 1962-1990, Medical Doctor, Deputy Justice Minister 1994-1998, Health Minister 1999-2008

Photographer

Banished person

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), trade unionist,  secretary of the African Textile Workers' Union, lay preacher in the Bantu Methodist Church

Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress, member of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) national executive and its president in the Cape, during the&nbs

Secretary of the Border regional command of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), imprisoned on Robben Island, teacher, UDF President for the Border region, member of the ANC's Politico-Military Council secretariat and Army Commissar of MK, membe

Banished person.

President of the All African Convention (AAC), teacher, lawyer

Minor, Worker, Casualty

ANC member, was chairman of the committee which built the first independent primary school in Newclare.

Outspoken critic of apartheid, teacher, author, lecturer, Nobel Prize winner, former Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa

Banished person

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the All African Convention (AAC), banished person

Composer, Choir Conductor, Organist and Teacher

Printer and journalist, provincial secretary of the ICU  for the Transvaal, edited The Workers' Herald and later New Africa, the paper of the Independent Industrial Commercial Union

Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress, accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, coal dealer and property owner

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