Harold Wolpe 14 January 1926 – 19 January 1996 was a South African lawyer, sociologist, political economist and anti-apartheid activist. He was arrested and put in prison in 1963 but escaped and spent 30 years in exile in the United Kingdom. He was a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex between 1972
AnnMarie Wolpe 1 December 1930 – 14 February 2018, née Kantor was a South African anti-apartheid activist, sociologist and feminist. Her husband Harold Wolpe was also a South African anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned along with Nelson Mandela. She fled South Africa after being arrested and interrogated. She wrote of her ordeal and she was among the initial editorial collective
Sheila Weinberg 1 October 1945 – 11 November 2004 was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. Born in Johannesburg, she was the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the South African Communist Party. She was involved in politics from a young age and, when her parents were in detention,
James Randolph Vigne FSA 1928 – 19 June 2016 was a South African anti-apartheid activist. He was an influential member of the Liberal Party of South Africa, a founding member of the National Committee for Liberation, and the founder of the African Resistance Movement (ARM). Contents 1Biography 2Published works 3Honours and awards 4Notes and references 5Sources 6External
Zwelinzima Vavi born 20 December 1962 is the former general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and vice-chairperson of the Millennium Labour Council. Contents 1Early life 2COSATU 3Zimbabwe 4ANC 5References 6External links Early life Vavi was born on a farm in Hanover, Northern Cape, with a mineworker father, four brothers and seven sisters. Until he
Moses Bonisile Twebe 1916–2013 was a South African politician who was a member of the ANC. He was born in King William’s Town and was a close friend to Govan Mbeki. He was imprisoned on Robben Island and afterwards banished to Dimbaza.
Ben Turok 26 June 1927 – 9 December 2019 was an anti-apartheid activist, Economics Professor and a South African member of parliament as a member of the African National Congress. Biography Turok was born in to poor working-class Jewish parents in Byelorussia in 1927, who were radicalized by the secular Jewish socialist Bundist movement. and his parents migrated to Libau, Latvia when his father
Steve Vukhile Tshwete 12 November 1938 in Springs, Transvaal – 26 April 2002 in Pretoria, Gauteng was a South African politician and activist with the African National Congress. Involved in Umkhonto we Sizwe, Tshwete was imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1978. Tshwete resumed activities with the ANC and
Onkgopotse Tiro 9 November 1945 – 1 February 1974 was a South African student activist and black consciousness militant. He was born in Dinokana, a small village near Zeerust. He was expelled from the University of the North (now known as University of Limpopo) in 1972 for his political activities. At university he had become
Ahmed Timol 3 November 1941 – 27 October 1971 was an anti-apartheid activist, political leader and activist in the underground South African Communist Party (SACP), based in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg. He died five days after being arrested at a roadblock in Johannesburg, following torture and beatings. Police claimed he leaped out of window on an