Enuga S. Reddy was the Former Assistant General of the United Nations and Head of its Centre against Apartheid.

The Right Reverend Bishop of the Anglican Church was born in the United Kingdom. He served as the Bishop of Johannesburg from 1949-1961, when he became active and outspoken in the struggle against Apartheid. He was deported by the South African Government, not long after the Sharpeville massacre on the 21 March 1960, and resigned as Bishop of Johannesburg in 1961.

Reiner Leist is a visual artist. He studied Visual Arts and Photography at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste in Muenchen, Germany. He later emigrated to South Africa and the United States.

London Missionary Society missionary, Deputy Commissioner of Bechuanaland and advocate of British imperial rule in Africa

"Father Norton" was a missionary of the Society of the Sacred Mission stationed at Modderpoort. He was a member of the Committee of the Albany Natural History Society, Grahamstown and the Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1920 he was appointed as its first professor of Bantu philology at the University of Cape Town.

John David Rheinallt Jones was born at Llanrug, Caernarvonshire, Wales, on the 5th July, 1884.

He completed his formal education in 1900 when he received his Senior Certificate, as he never had a formal university education. He was honoured by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1930, when an honorary M.A. was conferred on him in recognition of his services to the University, as well as his contributions to research on Africa and Southern Africa in particular.

His father, the Rev. John Eiddon Jones, was a minister of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church; thus from his earliest years Rheinallt Jones was instilled with strong Christian beliefs and the conviction of the necessity of social justice.

He came out to South Africa in 1905, landing in Cape Town where he remained until 1918. In 1910 he met and married his first wife, Edith Barton.

The marriage was a happy one and his wife worked alongside him, striving to improve race relations in Southern Africa. They had one daughter, Helen (later Mrs Wynne of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia).

He moved to Johannesburg in 1919 and was appointed Secretary to the Witwatersrand Council of Education, which played an important part in the provision of higher education. Thus Rheinallt Jones was also brought into contact with the South African School of Mines and Technology, which was later to become the University of the Witwatersrand.

He later became Assistant Registrar of the University, lecturer in Race Relations and an honorary graduate.

Rheinallt Jones, together with Charles T. Loram, was one of the founders of the Joint Council system in the 1920s, which replaced the Native Welfare Societies

Unfortunately this aspect of his work is not represented in this collection.

The movement was born out of the need to improve the plight of the poverty-stricken Africans, who were ignored by the majority of Europeans, and also to promote co-operation between Europeans and Africans

The need for a body to promote understanding between the various racial groups was sorely felt, and in 1929, with the aid of funds made available by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the South African Institute of Race Relations came into being, through the efforts of Rheinallt Jones. The Institute was declared a non-political organisation.

Rheinallt Jones and his wife travelled extensively in those years. Rheinallt Jones was appointed Adviser on Race Relations and a few years later, Director. His lifelong devotion to the Institute continued until his death in 1953. His activities for the Institute covered many fields such as African education, African land rights, health and social welfare facilities for Africans, as well as improved wages and employment opportunities for Africans

He also contributed regularly to publications of the Institute but his writing was not only limited to Institute publications

His activities were not confined to the Institute of Race Relations. Despite his crowded and busy life he still found time for other interests such as his long association with the Pathfinders movement (African Boy Scouts).

To complement his interest, Edith Rheinallt Jones devoted herself to the Wayfarers (African Girl Guides).

Many welfare institutions received his support and he donated generously to their causes. He was associated with other institutions such as Jan H. Hofmeyr School of Social Work and the University of the Witwatersrand.

He was a member of: National Council for Adult Education; Consumers' Advisory Committee of the National Marketing Council; National Liaison Committee of F.A.O.; Committee on Minimum Accommodation Standards; President Sections E (1925) and F (1947) and He supported the Christian missions and was also a trustee of the Bantu Welfare Trust.

He was a member of Council of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science; served on the Transvaal Advisory Board for Native Education; the National Advisory Council for Adult Education; the Joint Native Advisory Board; the South African Institute of International Affairs; the South African National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations and several other public bodies

In 1937 Rheinallt Jones was elected Senator, representing the Africans of the Transvaal and Orange Free State in Parliament. He held office until 1942. He was thus able to use his influence to encourage legislation to improve the lot of the Africans

In 1944 Edith Rheinallt Jones died.

He continued his activities and travelled more extensively than before.

In 1947 he married his second wife, Clare, who associated herself with all his activities

On the 1st May 1947, Rheinallt Jones left the Institute and took up an appointment as Adviser on Native Affairs for the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa.

His post as Director of the Institute was left open for him but he never returned to it.

In 1950 he was elected President of the Institute. With Anglo-American, he was able to implement schemes to improve accommodation facilities for mine workers and thereby reduced the proportion of migrant labour. During these years he was also able to visit other parts of Africa.

He died on 30th January 1953.

Bob Connolly was a US born journalist who came to South Africa in 1937, where he became a famous cartoonist. His drawings were set against the Apartheid era political landscape of South Africa, and appeared on the front pages of the Rand Daily Mail for almost two decades.

South African novelist, poet and short story writer.

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was the founder of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in April 1959. He was instrumental in the PAC's anti-pass campaign, which was launched on the 21 March 1960, and which culminated in what was later to became known as the Sharpeville Massacre.
Robert Sobukwe was banished for his political activities and later sentenced to three years in prison. In order to be able to prolong his imprisonment, the South African Parliament passed a General Law Amendment Act called the "Sobukwe Clause". He was moved to Robben Island where he remained for 6 years in solitary confinement. He was released in May 1969 and banished to Kimberley.
Robert Sobukwe died on the 27 February 1978 from lung complications after a long illness. He was buried in Graaff-Reinet.

T.C. Robertson was born in 1907 in Middelburg, Transvaal, where he grew up and matriculated at the Middelburg High School in 1923. He then completed two years of a law degree at the University of the Witwatersrand before entering the profession of journalism. In 1926 he was the Johannesburg correspondent of "Ons Vaderland" and the following year became editor of the "Livingstone Mail" in Northern Rhodesia and a correspondent of the "London Times". He then travelled to the Far East, working, in Ceylon and Australia. On his return in 1931 he was parliamentary correspondent of the "Cape Times" and in 1934 on the editorial staff of the "Rand Daily Mail" and "Sunday Times". He covered the 6th Imperial Press Conference in 1935 and was the author of a book on it. In 1937 he edited "Forward", a labour party newspaper.

In 1938 Robertson stood unsuccessfully as labour candidate for Fordsburg and in 1939 became parliamentary correspondent for "Rand Daily Mail" and "Sunday Times" visiting East Africa as a war correspondent. During, the war years he was director of the Union Unity Truth Service, a propaganda machine for General Smuts, supporting the war effort and editor of its journal ''Libertas". He was given occasional assignments in North Africa and reported the whole of the Madagascar Campaign. There is a small amount of material in this collection on the Union Unity Truth Service but the bulk of it is in a separate collection, A883.

In 1945 he returned to his original love, nature, and sat at the feet of Dr. Hugh Bennett, the father of soil conservation, who arranged a two year course for him in the USA. On his return General Smuts persuaded him to stand as a United Party candidate for Witbank but was unsucessful. In 1948 he became Director of the National Veld Trust and remained in this position until his retirement in 1966. He served on several committees connected with conservation and was the author of books and articles: Grond is Lewe (soil is life), 1968; Water, 1970; Big Game, 1970; South African Mosaic, 1978. This last was his major work, incorporating some extremely good illustrations. He was a speaker at many conferences and spearheaded the publicity campaign to make people aware of the environment and dangers facing it. He was truly the pioneer of South African Conservation, having a great influence on conservationists like Ian Player and James Clarke.

He received several honours, a doctorate from the University of theWitwatersand in 1979; the Decoration for Meritorious Service in 1983, was nominated for the Tyler Award and given the gold medal by the National Veldtrust in 1978.

T.C. Robertson spent his retirement years in Scottburgh, actively pursuing his conservation aims despite increasingly poor health due to diabetes. He was a man of great humanity and lover of life. He died on 11 January 1989 in Durban.