Biography Index

Medical Doctor, Cape Muslim leader & founder of the anti-apartheid movement, African People's Organisation and human rights campaigner.

Medical Doctor, Cape Muslim leader & founder of the anti-apartheid movement, African People's Organisation and human rights campaigner.

Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar, part-time professor of Hebrew at the University of Cape Town, chairman of the Jewish Museum and Historical Society, trustee of the Cape Town Jewish Orphanage, vice-president of the Society of Christians and Jews, a member of the Council of the South African Institute of Race Relations, and served on the board of the Cape Community Chest.

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

Author, journalist

Business Entreprenuer, who built the Checkers and Pick 'n Pay grocery store chains in South Africa.

Member of AZASO,FEDTRAW, UDF and ANC.

A teacher and activist, member of the Non European Unity Movement and the National Liberation Front.

Member of the SAIC and the SACP, 1956 Treason Trialist

South African Expressionist painter“My work is based on my experience of South Africa as a 'vast and terrifying prison' - an experience which even now, after a decade of democracy, still haunts me."

Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the first White South African to die in police detention 

Educator and Clergyman

General Secretary of the Congress of South African Writers, film maker.

Artist

Member of NUSAS and Liberal Party of South Africa, Secretary of the Party in Natal, banned person, political prisoner, university lecturer, Emeritus Professor of Adult Education, ordained deacon in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, Directo

White Chief of the Shangaan, elephant-hunter and trader

One of South Africa's leading social documentary photographers

trade unionist, Secretary of the Textile Workers Industrial Union, banned person

Educationist and churchman

Political activist and Clergyman

Political activist and former PAC secretary general.

Artist

Born on the Cape Flats in the apartheid era, Kenneth grew up at a time of political ferment, forced removals and resistance. His art reflects this period and is often social comment.

Teacher, lecturer, banned person, author, advocate of multilingualism in post-apartheid South Africa, a strong proponent of socialist ideals and policy in the country, and a former prisoner in Robben Island, member of the NEUM, founder member of Y

Photographer, reporter, television and media producer

A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM). Banned by the apartheid government.

Political activist and trade unionist (1950s)

Banned person, journalist, photographer, member of the NIC

Political Cartoonist, illustrator and writer

Pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Teacher, member of the South African Coloured People’s Congress and MK, ANC, Robben Island prisoner.

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, charged with treason, 1956 Treason Trial.

Lawyer, banned person, trade union advisor,  member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Artist and architect 

Lecturer and Registrar of Banks.

Artist

Minister of Education (1999 – 2004), Minister of Water Affairs,(1994 – 1999) and a member of Parliament in the National Assembly from 1994– 2007.

Commerical traveller, executive member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and a member of the Evaton People’s Transport Council.

Farouk Asvat is a novelist, poet, essayist, translator and medical doctor. He was banned by the South African apartheid regime between 1973 and 1978.

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

A passive resister from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng), Member of Committee of British Indian Association (BIA) and Secretary of the BIA Johannesburg branch, political prisoner

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

KhoiKhoi leader and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas.