Prof. Emeritus Anthony Traill was formerly head of the Dept of Linguistics at Wits.

Senior lecturer in Industrial Relations at the Graduate School of Business Administration, WITS University.

John Edward Matthews (1913-1998) was a member of the Communist Party of South Africa. He was convicted of sabotage and imprisoned.

Dr. WZ Conco, having graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1948 as a medical doctor, joined the African National Congress in 1950, where he became the national treasurer of its Youth League and played a prominent role at the Congress of the People in 1955. He was banned and restricted to the Ixopo district in Natal. After his release from the Treason Trial he moved to Swaziland and later to London, where he became involved in the work of the Luthuli Memorial Foundation.

Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She was educated at Roedean School in Johannesburg and in the 1950s studied at the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science in Scotland. After qualifying as a Domestic Science teacher she moved to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). She returned to South Africa eight years later and worked for the Social Welfare Department of the Johannesburg City Council as a home economics officer.

Sheena Duncan was the daughter of the late Jean Sinclair, a founder member of Black Sash, a womens organization working for human rights. She joined the Black Sash in 1963, working tirelessly against inhumane laws and the effects of the apartheid on ordinary South Africans, especially women. She held various positions within the organization including regional chairperson and editor of the Sash Magazine. In 1975 she became the national president of Black Sash taking over from her mother who had retired the same year from this position. She wrote several articles, booklets, pamphlets, speeches, especially on issues such as forced removals and pass laws. In 1970 Sheena Duncan joined the Anglican Churchs Challenge Group, a movement that sought to end racism within the church. She also represented the Anglican Church on the South African Council of Churches (SACC) Justice and Reconciliation Division. She became and still is the Honorary Life Vice President of the SACC as well as chair and patron of Gun-Free South Africa and of the Black Sash.

In 1986 she received the Liberal International Prize for Freedom for her outstanding contribution to human rights and political freedom. She has also been awarded honorary doctorates in Law by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990, the University of Cape Town in 1991 and the University of Natal in 1995. Sheena Duncan has had an outstanding career as a public figure involved in the struggle to promote social justice and human rights. She was a fervent activist for these causes. Sheena Duncan died in 2010.

Shun N. Chetty was born in 1941 in Durban. He was educated in Kwazulu-Natal and graduated in 1968 from the University College in Durban with a Law degree. He has been admitted to practice as an attorney in 1971. From 1974 up to 1979 Chetty practiced under the name of Shun Chetty and Company. During this time he was involved in political activities and acted on behalf of various members of the ANC, the PAC, the Black Consciousness Movement and in the Trial after the 1976 uprisings. In 1979 he fled South Africa, leaving the country illegally without a passport which was seized earlier by the police. In 1980 at the instance of the Law Society of the Transvaal, his name was struck off the roll of attorneys by the High Court of South Africa. While living abroad S. Chetty applied to the High Court of S. A for reinstatement as an attorney albeit unsuccessfully.

Chetty worked for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva. He was also the Legal Advisor for Asia and Thailand. In 1995 Chetty moved to Australia where he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Refugee Review Tribunal. In 1998 he returned to South Africa and was the Regional Representative in Pretoria of the International Organization for Migration.

A year later he once more applied to the High Court of S.A. for reinstatement as an attorney in order to pursue a career within the legal profession. Chetty died in 2000 and was only reinstated posthumously in 2006.

Noel Stott was educated in Cape Town. He obtained his B.A. and B.Bibl (Hons) degrees as well as Higher and Final Diplomas in Library and Information Science from the University of Cape Town UCT). In the 1980s and 1990s he was employed by UCT in various librarian and research capacities. Noel Stott also worked for the Southern African Catholic Bishop's Conference (SACBC) and the Institute of Contextual Theology (ICT) as a Documentation, Communications and Research Officer. He was also one of the founding members of the South African History Archive (SAHA), where he spent almost 20 years serving as a volunteer Board member of the SAHA Trust and its various management structures. Noel's involvement in SAHA'S activities also included collecting 'struggle' material and representing the Trust on fact-finding/study tours/missions as well as securing founding. Since 2002, he has worked for the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) with a focus on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation with particular reference to Africa's development and the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

Dr. Franz Auerbach originated from a Jewish family who moved to South Africa in1936 to escape Nazi Germany. After his tertiary education he obtained a Teaching Diploma at the Johannesburg Teachers' Training College in 1947. He became one of South Africa's renowned educators through his contributions towards educational change. He was a founder of Jews for Social Justice and a Vice-President of The World Conference on Religion and Peace - South African Chapter (WCRP-SA).

Padraig O'Malley was born in 1942 in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. He was educated at the University College in Dublin, Yale Tufts and Harvard Universities in the United States where he obtained his degree of Master of Economic Science and a PHD in Economics. In the 1970's and 1980's Padraig O'Malley spent time in Northern Ireland where he got involved with this country's conflict. While working with all the political parties to the conflict he managed to convene the international conferences to discuss and try to find solutions to the political problems of this country. He has lectured and written extensively on the conflict in Northern Ireland and has won a number of prizes for his books regarding this country. During the 1980's O'Malley has extensively travelled to South Africa to meet with a wide cross section of the community including government ministers, members of parliament, church leaders, academics and the ANC officials in Lusaka. He also held meetings with South African Black Labour Leaders of the trade union movement as well as with prominent anti-apartheid leaders. He was interested in the way that South Africa had gone from apartheid to a racially integrated democracy without a civil war. O'Malley participated in organizing meetings between representatives of South Africa and Northern Ireland. O'Malley has monitored elections in South Africa on behalf of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. In 2007 he became involved in working towards reconciliation in Iraq. He is presently working as a professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Amina Cachalia, daughter of Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Issack, was born on 28 June 1932, as the ninth of 11 children. She grew up in the Vereeniging location of Johannesburg and later moved to Newclare, west of Johannesburg. Her first school attendance was at a 'Coloured' Afrikaans medium school and later at an 'Indian school', after the family had moved to Fordsburg in Johannesburg.

The 1946 the Passive Resistance Campaign involved most members of the Asvat family. Amina too elected to go to prison but was considered too young at the time. In 1948 she was offered a scholarship by the Indian Government to further her studies in India but was refused a passport. Later that year she co-founded the Women's Progressive Union, of which she became the Secretary, and later went on to join the Indian Youth Congress, where she served as a National Executive member.

When the Congress Alliance launched the Defiance Campaign in 1952, she was one of the youngest women arrested and sent to prison. In 1954 she participated in the inaugural launch of the Federation of South African Women FEDSAW), together with Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph, and later served as the National Treasurer.

In July 1955 she was married to Yusuf Cachalia, son of Ahmed Muhammad Cachalia and Katija Cachalia (Nanie)ø, then Secretary of the South African Indian Congress, with whom she was to have two children, Ghaleb and Dilshad (Coco). Yusuf Cachalia died on 10 May 1995 at the age of 80.

Amina Cachalia was an organizer of the historic march of 20,000 women on the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956. She was served with her first banning order in 1963, which was re-imposed successively between 1963-1978. Her husband Yusuf spent 27 years as a banned person and 10 years under house arrest. When her banning order was not repeated in 1980 she immediately resumed active politics during the campaign to oppose the Tricameral Parliament. She was elected patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW). She continued to work towards the United Democratic Front (UDF).

Additionally, she served as a director of Snapper Clothes (Pty) Ltd, a company which she and her late husband started in 1958.

With the beginning of South Africa's new dispensation in 1994, Amina Cachalia continued her active political service in various capacities. She was instrumental in Nelson Mandela's Presidency; later became a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and other charities; served on the Finance Committee of the ANC Women's League, being the Treasurer of the PWV Region; was the ANC candidate for the National Assembly; and she became chairperson of the 'World in Soweto' Project, geared to the upliftment of Soweto.

On the 20 April 2004 she became South Africa's first Indian woman to receive an honorary degree in Law from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Amina Cachalia is the recipient of The National Order of Luthuli in Bronze, awarded to her for her lifetime contribution to the struggle for gender equality, non-racialism and a free and democratic South Africa.