Born in 1914 Mahlangu was a trade unionist. As a domestic worker, Mahlangu took part in the 1942 anti-pass campaign and was sacked. Later he was again victimised after taking part in a strike at a power station. He became a full-time trade union secretary after entering the laundry industry. He was an Executive Committee Member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions from 1955-1956.

Journalist George Arthur Heard was the elder son of Arthur Henry Heard, inspector of works in Bloemfontein, and his wife, Millicent Agnes Elliot. He was one of South Africa's best-known and most controversial political journalists in the 1930's and early 1940's. His disappearance without a trace on 8 August 1945 caused a sensation at the time and remains a mystery. 

Ray (or Taube, her Yiddish name) Harmel was born in Lithuania in 1905.  Strongly influenced by some of her six brothers, she joined the-then illegal Lithuanian Communist Party.  She eventually had to flee the political police and escaped, via Germany where she was detained for six months for illegal entry into that country.  In 1928, Ray arrived in South Africa, with little formal education and no English, although she was fluent in Yiddish, German, Lithuanian and Russian.  The only skill she had acquired was at the sewing machine, and so her life as a seamstress be

Mr GK Gokhale was the Founder of the Servants of India Society in Poona. On Ghandi's invitiation, he Toured South Africa in October of 1912. He was associated with Deccan Education Society's Fergusson College as Professor of Mathematics, English, Political Economy. In 1899 he was elected to the Bombay Legislative Council and presided over the Indian National Congress Session in Benaras. He championed the cause of South African Indentured Indians.

Raymond Dart was born on 4 February 1893 in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. He attended university in Queensland and Sydney. In 1920, Dart pursued further study at the University of London, under the anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith and Arthur Keith. When a Anatomy Professorship became available at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Elliot Smith encouraged Dart to apply for the position, which he was subsequently offered. Dart moved to South Africa in 1922 and later made enormous contributions globally to the fields of physical anthropology and paleontology.

Alan Cormack, the youngest of three children, was born in Johannesburg in February 1924. His father was an engineer with the Post Office and his mother a teacher. His parents moved to South Africa from the north of Scotland shortly before the outbreak of World War One.