Biographies

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

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

anti-apartheid activist, political detainee, treason trialist and author

Dr Mohammed Shukri Effendi was the first person of colour to graduate as a medical doctor from the University of Cape To...

Member of NUSAS, member of the ANC, Trade unionist, General Secretary and  Education secretary of FOSATU, Minister ...

AIDS Activist and Children’s Advocate

Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn was born in October 1939 in Vosburg in the Karoo, Northern Cape and raised in Queenstown in the...

Politician and anti-apartheid activist, Treason Trialist and President of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's Le...

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

Chairman of Military Committee in Maputo, Robben island prisoner, exile, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC Representative ...

A self-taught, award winning artist and photographer. Badsha played an active role in the South African liberation strug...

Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of ...

Lecturer, novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor

Political activist, member of NUSAS and the ANC, banned person, exiled, labour activist and Dean of Humanities at UCT

Lecturer, lawyer, author, trade union and labour activist.