The South African Communist Party (SACP) is a communist party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA),tactically dissolved itself in 1950 in the face of being declared illegal by the governing National Party under the Suppression of Communism Act,1950. The Communist Party was reconstituted underground and re-launched as the SACP in 1953,participating in the struggle to end the apartheid system. It is a member of the ruling Tripartite Alliance alongside the African National Congress and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and through this it influences the South African government. The party's Central Committee is the party's highest decision-making structure.
Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee,theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. He was known simply as Beyers Naudé,or more colloquially,Oom Bey.
Philemon Pearce Dumasile Nokwe OMSG,known as Duma Nokwe,was a South African political activist and legislator,and served as the Secretary-General of the African National Congress from 1958 to 1969.
Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare. Mass action against the ruling National Party (NP) government,coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic sanctions,were instrumental in leading to negotiations to end apartheid,which began formally in 1990 and ended with South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994.
Cassel Mathale is a South African politician who was the third Premier of Limpopo between March 2009 and July 2013. He is currently the Deputy Minister of Police in the South African government and before that was Deputy Minister of Small Business Development from February 2018 to May 2019.
Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews was a South African activist and politician.
Chupu Stanley Mathabatha is a South African politician who is currently the Premier of Limpopo. He was elected to the position in July 2013 after the resignation of Cassel Mathale. He was previously a public servant in Limpopo province and from 2012 to 2013 completed a brief stint as a diplomat,serving as South African Ambassador to Ukraine under President Jacob Zuma.
Kopeng Obed Bapela is a South African politician who is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Public Enterprises since 6 March 2023. Before that,he was Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs from 2014 to 2023. A member of the African National Congress (ANC),he has been a member of the National Assembly since 2002 and a deputy minister since 2010.
Mathume Joseph Phaahla is a South African politician who is currently serving as the Minister of Health since August 2021. He was formerly the Deputy Minister of Health from May 2014 to August 2021. He had been a deputy minister since May 2009,when he joined the National Assembly. He is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC).
Tshenuwani Simon Farisani is a South African politician,theologian,and Lutheran minister. During apartheid,he was one of the country's most prominent black clergymen and preached anti-apartheid liberation theology from his diocese in Venda and Transvaal. He founded the Black Evangelic Youth Organisation with Cyril Ramaphosa in the early 1970s and was also active in the Black Consciousness movement,especially as president of the Black People's Convention from 1973 to 1975. He was arrested on four occasions,according to Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience,and he testified abroad about the torture he was subjected to by the apartheid police.
Dikgang "Uhuru" Moiloa is a South African politician who was Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Local Government and Human Settlements from March 2018 to May 2019. He represented the African National Congress in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1999 to 2019 and was formerly the Deputy Speaker in the legislature from 2014 to 2018.
Elias Khabisi Mosunkutu was a South African politician who served in the Gauteng Executive Council from 1999 to 2010 and in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1995 to 2011. He was a member of the African National Congress (ANC).
Pandelani "Sparks" Ramagoma was a South African politician and civil servant who served as Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Public Works for three months until his death in a car accident in 2009. A former anti-apartheid activist,Ramagoma was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and served on the party's Provincial Executive Committee. At the time of his death,he was also the Provincial Chairperson of the Limpopo branch of the South African Communist Party.
Ntombazana Gertrude Winifred Botha is a South African politician who served as Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture from 2004 to 2009 and before that as Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government from 2001 to 2004. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1997 until 2009,when she retired from frontline politics. During the 1980s,she was involved in community organising in the anti-apartheid struggle and was the founding secretary of the United Democratic Front in East London.
Loretta Jacobus,formerly known as Loretta Bastardo-Ibanez,is a South African politician who served as Deputy Minister of Correctional Services from February 2006 to May 2009. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2013.
Aubrey Dundubela Mokoena was a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist. He represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2014,excepting a brief hiatus in 2009. He served the Gauteng constituency and chaired the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs from 1999 to 2002.
Ratshivhanda Samson Ndou is a South African politician and former trade unionist. During apartheid,he was a prominent member of a network of Charterist union organisers in the Transvaal,as well as a founding member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and president of the General and Allied Workers' Union (GAWU).
Magwaza Alfred Maphalala was a South African politician and trade unionist from KwaZulu-Natal. He represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 until his death in 2003. He was also a stalwart of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in KwaZulu-Natal.
Sediane Danny "Sechaba" Montsitsi was a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist. One of the leaders of the 1976 Soweto uprising,he later represented the African National Congress in Parliament from 1994 to 2014.
Rapulane Sydney Molekane is a South African diplomat,politician,and former anti-apartheid activist. He has been South African Ambassador to Austria since 2019. In that capacity,he also has non-resident accreditation to Slovenia and Slovakia and serves as South Africa's permanent representative to various international organisations in Vienna.
