William Frederick Nkomo (1915–1972) was a South African medical doctor, community leader, political activist and teacher from Pretoria.

He was also elected president of the South African Institute of Race Relations,[2] and was a steward of the Methodist Church and Trustee of the Bantu Welfare Trust.

In 1944, he helped found the ANC Youth League with Nelson Mandela, Anton Lembede, Ashley Peter Mda, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo.

As documented in Frank Buchman's Legacy, the Seeds of Change for Africa[5] the authors Peter Hannon and Suzan Burrell write that, "WF Nkomo had been labelled a communist and he in turn viewed whites as Fascists”.

Nkomo heard George Daneel, a former Springbok, Dutch Reformed Church priest and anti-apartheid activist, speak positively about change at a Moral Re-Armament multiracial conference in Lusaka.

Daneel spoke publicly "That it was the feelings of racial superiority in white men like himself that were creating the conditions for producing bloody revolution.

To promote peace, he featured in two films (one on him, called A Man For All People[8]) and another with leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Jomo Kenyatta and Manase Moerane.

He was one of the leaders who discussed the political situation in South Africa with Dag Hammarskjöld who was Secretary General of the United Nations during his visit to this country in January 1961.

[10] 14 August 1968, Nkomo was invited to speak at the University of Cape Town's Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom.

Their names are legend: Joe Slovo, Ismael Meer, Harold Wolpe, J N Singh, William Nkomo and Ruth First.

They count amongst those who set forth a message and an ethos in direct contrast to the fear, oppression and subservience which legislation of the time sought to impose and inculcate.