Catherine Taylor was an MP for the United Party.

The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), today the largest teachers' union in the country was launched on the 6th of October 1990 in Johannesburg. Its launch was attended by 1500 delegates from 13 teacher organisations. The delegates present were united in the firm belief and commitment to place teachers at the forefront of policy development for an envisaged future South Africa.

NUMSA was founded in 1987 as one of the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and remains the biggest metal workers trade union. It was expelled from COSATU in 2014 and is now one of the biggest affiliate in the South African Federation of Trade Unions which was formed in 2017.

Nandha Naido is a South African anti-Apartheid struggle veteran, now living in London with his family.

John Matshikiza, 1954-2008, was a creative artist who not only worked and wrote as a journalist but composed music and poetry, wrote many plays for the stage, screen TV and radio, was a working actor, director and producer. He spoke several languages, including fluent French and spent considerable time in different parts of the African continent as well as the USA, UK and Europe.

John Anthony Matshikiza was born in South Africa in 1954 to Esme and Todd Tozama Matshikiza. With the family going into exile in 1961, John grew up in London in Zambia. John was schooled in both countries and attended university in Lusaka. He later moved to the UK where he studied acting / drama and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Compay, performing many roles and also working in television and film. In the 1970s he helped form Mayibuye, a cultural group of the African National Congress. He also lived in the US, Amsterdam and various African countries including Senegal, where he was culture director of the Goree Institute.

On his return to South Africa in the early 1990s he became involved in theatre, mainly the Market Theatre, television, drama as well as factual, event production and public speaking.

John Matshikiza died in 2008.

The collection contains the papers of Patrick Robert Brian Lewis (1910-1992), who served in his capacity as accountant and later City Councillor and Mayor of Johannesburg, as well as Member of the Transvaal Provincial Council.

Patrick Lewis was the Chairman of the City Council's Management Committee during the mid 1970s, when the South African Government was adament to make Pageview a white area, removing the Indian community, including all the Indian traders from Martindale and Pageview, to Lenasia. Together with Jan Niemand, the Secretary of the Department of Community Development, Patrick Lewis managed a compromise for the traders, by conceptualising the Oriental Plaza in Fordsburg, which was completed in 1975.

Lewis was a member of the Joint Council of Europeans and Africans, and he served as the Treasurer of the South African Institute of Race Relations, of which he was elected a Life Member in 1953.

Patrick Lewis' work was recognised by the University of the Witwatersrand, who conferred on him an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law in 1970, and by the Johannesburg City Cou cil who elected him a Freeman of the City in 1973.

Alex Hepple, was the leader of the South African Labour Party from 1953-1958, and Member of Parliament. In 1962 he re-founded the Labour newspaper 'Forward', and published the paper until 1964.

He was also the founder and chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund from 1956-1961 and of the South African Defence and Aid Fund from 1960-1964. Together with his wife Josephine (Girlie) he established the International Defence and Aid Fund's (IDAF) Information Service in 1967 in London, after he had left South Africa in 1965 for the United Kingdom.

The daughters of Jewish immigrants, Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 in Springs, a small town on the East Rand of Johannesburg. She went to a Convent school and later studied for a year at the University of the Witwatersrand without taking a degree. In 1948 she moved to Johannesburg, where she lived all of her life.

She began writing at the young age of nine and her first story was published in a South African magazine when she was only fifteen. Her first collection of short stories was published in 1949. "Face to Face" and the first novel "The Lying Days" appeared in 1953. Nadine Gordimer is an author of fourteen novels, thirteen story collections, five non-fiction collections, several volumes of essays, four film scripts derived from her fiction, and three documentary film scripts. She achieved lasting international recognition for her works and her awards include fifteen honorary doctorates , 11 literary awards and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Her novels and short stories have been published in 40 different languages.

Concerned about racial and economic inequality in South Africa from an early age, Nadine Gordimer joined, and became an active member of the African National Congress. During the Apartheid era she regularly took part in anti-Apartheid demonstrations in South Africa, and while travelling internationally spoke out against Apartheid, discrimination and political discrimination. She also resisted censorship and state control by serving on the Steering Committee of the Anti-Censorship Action Group.

In the post-Apartheid era, Nadine Gordimer continued to write about the effects of Apartheid and life in South Africa after 1994, and was active in the HIV/AIDS movement.

Nadine Gordimer died on the 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg.

Artist and Researcher for the Anglican Church

Justice Arthur Chaskalson was the President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005.