Joseph Barnett was born in 1861(?) in Brynmawr, Wales as one of 6 children of Barnett and Ellen Isaacs. He came to Johannesburg around 1888/9, where he started a photographic business in 1895, later joined by his brother David. Both brothers obtained contracts with periodical publications like the illustrated London journal "Black & White". Joseph Barnett died while on holiday in Wales and was buried at his birthplace on the 23 July 1897.
His brother David not only continued with the business Barnett & Co., but also took over Joseph's appointment as special correspondent of "Black and White", taking the photographic work of the brothers further. In the years to follow he contributed many of his pictures of the South African War (1899-1902), published by 'Black and White', and later launched a series of postcards in about 1902. David Barnett died at the age of 90 in 1964.

The National Union of Distributive Workers (NUDW) was a trade union representing workers involved in retail and goods transport in South Africa.

The History workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, is a group of loosely constituted interdisciplinary academics and associated researchers, involved in a range of heritage and public history projects. Since its inception in 1977 it has been promoting research into the lives, experiences and social worlds of people and communities in South Africa, to address the erasures of colonialism and apartheid.

Their website can be found here https://www.wits.ac.za/history-workshop/ .

Susan Parnell is Professor of Urban Geography. She completed her tertiary education at the University of the Witwatersrand.

The Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, under the chairmanship of Justice Richard Goldstone, was appointed by President FW de Klerk on 24 October 1991, to investigate incidents of public violence and intimidation in South Africa prior to the 1994 general election. Other commissioners were Adv. Danie Rossouw, SC (ViceChairman), Adv. Solly Sithole, Ms. Lillian Baqwa, and Mr. Gert Steyn. The commissioners were appointed for a statutory period of three years. The Commission became commonly known as the Goldstone Commission.
During its three year life-span the Commission, in terms of its founding Act, No 139 of 1991, presented 47 reports, usually following public inquiries, containing a large number of recommendations.
The Commission closed on 27 October 1994.

Colleen McCaul was a highly regarded transport consultant whose work was central to the development of the post-apartheid public transport system. She was a recognized expert on the minibus taxi industry of South Africa, having authored “No Easy Ride: The Rise and Future of the Black Taxi Industry” (SAIRR, 1990). She was a specialist advisor to the National Taxi Task Team after 1994, and worked on drafting the National Land Transport Transition Act and the National Land Transport Act that together formed the backbone of South Africa’s new transport system.
She was best known as the project manager of Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system, the largest municipal infrastructure project in South African history. McCaul was recruited to Rea Vaya in early 2008, when Rea Vaya was in the process of being planned, and ran it until the launch of Phase 1b of the system in 2013. She subsequently worked for the National Department of Transport in its work on Rea Vaya and other BRTs, and—through the expertise she developed building Rea Vaya—was recruited to the reference committee for the international “BRT Standard” with worldwide influence.

The Anglo American Corporation was founded by Ernest Oppenheimer in 1917 in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a gold mining company with financial backing from the American bank J.P. Morgan & Co. and other financial sources.

Nonseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914. She grew up on her grandfather’s farm in Thaba Nchu and inherited the farm in 1930 but lost it when it was declared a “white area”. She was a campaigner against Apartheid in South Africa and a fighter for women’s emancipation; she was a teacher, social worker and community leader.

She refused to work with government agencies, collaborating instead with voluntary organizations such as the YWCA, where she held the position of General Secretary in the Transvaal Region 1964, working with women in deprived communities. After the Soweto uprising in June 1976 and the arrest and killing of many young people, Soweto residents chose ten persons to study the role of members of the Local Councils who were cooperating with the apartheid regime. Ellen Kuzwayo and nine men were selected to the Committee of Ten but all ten members of the Committee were arrested by the police and detained without trial. Ellen Kuzwayo was detained at the Johannesburg Fort' Women’s Jail for five months.

Her activities included being President of the Black Consumers’ Union and serving on the Executive Committee of the Urban Foundation. She has published "Call me Woman" (1985), "Sit and Listen: Stories from South Africa" (1996) and "Tsiamelo - a place of goodness" (1984). Ellen Kuzwayo was honored by the Johannesburg City Council and on the 2nd of April 1987 she became the first black woman to receive an Honorary degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1994 she was appointed an African National Congress (ANC) member of parliament and retired after five years in 1999, receiving the State Order of Meritorious Service.

She died on the 19th of April 2006 at the age of 91, survived by her sons Bobo and Justice Moloto, six grandchildren and three great-grand children.

Born Johannesburg 1949 and named Arnold Michael, his parents were political activists (mother a lawyer, father a trade unionist) and later exiles in Swaziland (from May 1962); schooled in Johannesburg and Swaziland (Waterford Kamhlaba), journalist, researcher-activist (in the UK), took a civil engineering degree at City University London (1974-1979); became an international 'cooperante' (solidarity worker) in Mozambique (1979-1988), and later a development specialist and policy analyst at DBSA (1988-1994). He was seconded to the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry in 1994 and later was appointed Deputy DG and then Director General (1997-2005). Muller was also a member of the 1st National Planning Commission, 2010-2015. After his contract with the DWAF was not renewed (2015) he joined the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Public & Development Management (P&DM), later renamed the Wits School of Governance (WSG), as an Adjunct Professor and became something of an academic, writing numerous papers for for peer reviewed journals and book chapters. He also continued his involvement with international organisations such as the United Nations, the Global Water Partnership, the ADB and SADC, as well as advising the SA government. He has always been, and continues to be, a prolific writer of articles in the South African national press.