South African Activist
1. Mkhuseli Jack (1958)
South African Activist
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack was a South African Anti-Apartheid activist in the 1980s known for his involvement in the Anti-Apartheid struggle and his efforts in the Consumer Boycott Campaign. Currently he...
2. Florence Mkhize (Unknow)
South African Activist
Mkhize was an anti-apartheid activist. In 1998 the ANC Women’s League awarded her their bravery medal. In 1999 Nelson Mandela awarded her the South African Military Gold Medal. Durban's city...
3. Reggie September (1923)
South African Activist
Reggie September was a South African politician trade-unionist Member of Parliament and executive committee member of the African National Congress. September was born in Cape Town in 1923 to a...
4. Charlotte Maxeke (1874)
South African Activist
Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke a South African religious leader social worker and political activist was born probably at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Her younger sister Katie Makanya was...
5. Vusumzi Make (Unknow)
South African Activist
Vusumzi L. Make was a South African civil rights activist and lawyer. He is an ex-husband of American poet Maya Angelou; the two married in 1960 lived together in Cairo...
6. Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (1885)
South African Activist
Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu was a South African educationist and politician and a founder of the All African Convention which sought to unite all non-European opposition to the segregationist measure...
7. Neil Aggett (1953)
South African Activist
Neil Aggett was a white South African medical doctor and trade union organiser who died whilst in detention after being arrested by the South African Security Police.
8. Jay Naidoo (Unknow)
South African Activist
Jay Naidoo is Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Partnership Council of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition headquartered in Geneva and launched at the 2002...
9. Monty Naicker (1910)
South African Activist
Gagathura Mohambry Naicker was a medical doctor and a South African anti-apartheid activist of Indian Tamil descent.
10. Moses Mayekiso (1948)
South African Activist
Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso was a South African trade union leader and a leading activist in the struggles against the apartheid regime during the 1980s. He became general secretary of the...
11. John Tengo Jabavu (1859)
South African Activist
John Tengo Jabavu was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be written in Xhosa. In 1876 Jabavu took over editorship of the Isigidimi samaXhosa...
12. Kate Molale (1928)
South African Activist
Kate Molale was a South African political activist. She joined the African National Congress Sophiatown branch in the early 1950s. In 1954 she was elected as secretary of the Sophiatown...
13. Frank Chikane (1951)
South African Activist
Chikane is a South African civil servant writer and cleric. He is a member of the African National Congress.
14. Ivan Toms (1952)
South African Activist
Ivan Toms was a South African physician who battled the Apartheid era government as a prominent anti-Apartheid and anti-conscription activist. At the time of his death in 2008 Toms was...
15. Frederick John Harris (Unknow)
South African Activist
John Harris was a member of the anti-apartheid African Resistance Movement. On 24 July 1964 Harris telephoned to inform the Johannesburg Railway Police that a bomb had been planted...
16. James Moroka (1891)
South African Activist
James Sebe Moroka OLG was a medical doctor and a politician who was the president of the African National Congress 1949–1952. Moroka was elected as the president of the ANC...
17. Stella Sigcau (Unknow)
South African Activist
Princess Stella Sigcau is best known as a Minister in the South African Government. Sigcau was also the first female Prime Minister of the Transkei before being deposed in a...
18. Duma Nokwe (1927)
South African Activist
Philemon Pearce Dumasile Nokwe was a South African freedom fighter.
19. H. Selby Msimang (1886)
South African Activist
Henry Selby Msimang was a South African political leader and activist.
20. Zephania Mothopeng (1913)
South African Activist
Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng was a South African political activist and member of the Pan-Africanist Congress.
21. Edward Bhengu (1934)
South African Activist
Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu was a South African activist and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. Edward 'Sonnyboy' Bhengu also known affectionately as 'Bra Sanza' was the older...
22. Denis Goldberg (Unknow)
South African Activist
Denis Goldberg is a South African social campaigner who was active in the struggle against apartheid and was imprisoned along with other key members of the anti-apartheid movement. Denis Theodore...
23. Harry Schwarz (1924)
South African Activist
Harry Heinz Schwarz was a South African lawyer statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid in South Africa who eventually served as the South African ambassador to the United...
24. Shereen Usdin (1962)
South African Activist
Shereen Usdin was born in Durban on 8 April 1962. She studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand which she rounded off in 1985. In 1995 she became a Master...