Biography Index
| Last name | First name | Synopsis | Date of birth | Date of death | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Saayman | Heidi | Photographer | 3 February 1970 | |
| Sabelo | Matomane | |||
| Sabelo | Winnington | 7 February 1992 | ||
| Sable | Sarah | |||
| Sacharia | Mashandi | |||
| Sacharius | Alfeus | |||
 | Sachs | Albert | Member of the ANC, helped draft the ANC's Code of Conduct and statutes, member of the Constitutional Committee and National Executive Committee of the ANC, Director of Research for the Ministry of Justice, Constitutional Court Judge and author | 30 January 1935 | |
 | Sachs | Emil | Socialist, organised shop assistants on the Witwatersrand into a trade union, honorary secretary of the Shop Assistants trade union, member of the CPSA, elected to the national executive committee of the South African Trade and Labour Co | 11 November 1900 | 30 July 1976 |
| Sachs | Solly | A member of the South African Communist Party and the CTTU | ||
| Sacks | George | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa | ||
 | Safodien | Mujahid | Photographer | 17 March 1972 | |
 | Sagalala | Motisaoitsile | Minor, Worker, Casualty | 16 August 2012 | |
| Sajini | Homane | |||
| Sakiwo | Mehlo | |||
 | Saks | Julius | Pharmacist and Honorary Life President of the South African Optometeric Association | 1899 | 1975 |
| Sakwe | Charles Kwelemthini | Served on the United Transkeian Territories General Council and the Transkeian Territorial Authority but was defeated for election to the Transkeian Legislative Assembly in 1963, schoolmaster turned farmer and businessman, was active in support of the Cape Native Voters' Association, executive member of the (AAC) | c 1886 | 1964 |
| Salim | Essop | |||
| Saliman | Nthako | 11-November-1982 | |||
| Saliwa | Ruben | |||
| Saliwa | Joseph | Banished person | ||
| Salman | Welile | 10-September-1990 | |||
 | Saloojee | Suliman | Legal clerk, political activist, Transvaal Indian Congress member, fourth person to die in police custody for political actvity | 05-February-1931 | 09-September-1964 |
 | Saloojee | Cassim | Teacher and political activist, involved in the South African Indian Congress, Treasurer of the United Democratic Front, Member of Parliament (post 1994), founding member of Johannesburg’s Market Theatre and the alternative theatre group the ‘Phoenix players’. | 1935 | 1 February 2009 |
| Saloojee | R. | |||
| Saluman | Bernard | 29-September-1982 | |||
| Sameul | Hashe | |||
| Samfumfu | Sonchaka | |||
 | Sampson | Anthony | British writer and journalist, editor of Drum magazine in Johannesburg during the 1950s | 03-August-1926 | 18-December-2004 |
 | Sampson | Vicky | Singer, performer, Co-Director at Mzanzi Cultural Industries | 1969 | |
| Samson | Fadana | |||
| Samson | Molosi | |||
| Samuel | Hans | |||
| Samuel | Hdlangisa | |||
| Samuel | Kabiqeya | |||
| Samuel | Kolisile | |||
| Samuel | Malepane | |||
| Samuel | Mokhubela | |||
| Samuel | Movanda | |||
| Samuel | Mphuthi | |||
| Samuel | Ntombena | |||
| Samuel | Peter | |||
| Samuel | Pityana | |||
| Samuel | Rahube | |||
| Samuel | Shibane | |||
| Samuel | Sola | |||
| Samuel | Xulu | |||
 | Samuels | Narriman | Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her exact birthdate and birthplace are not documented in available sources, she was 60 years old at the time of her death in November 2025, placing her birth around 1964-1965. Growing up during this period, she witnessed firsthand the forced removals and systematic marginalization of coloured communities in the Western Cape. These early experiences would shape her lifelong commitment to community service and social justice. | 1964 | 1 November 2025 |
| Sandi | Sijaka | |||
| Sandile | Sizani | |||
| Sandlobe | Maduse | 1941 | 21 March 1962 | |
| Sandon | Eveleu | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | ||
| Sandon | Harold | A part of the Guardian newspaper and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | ||
| Sandy | Lebese | |||
| Sangozi | Zolile | 11-November-1988 | |||
 | Sangweni | Phillmon | Sculptor | 1947 | |
 | Sangweni | Stanislaus | exile, Professor of Sociology, member of the ANC and Chair of the Public Service Commission. | 13 September 1933 | |
| Santry | Denis | 1879 | 1960 | |
| Santry | Modeieine | |||
 | Saoli | Winston Churchill | artist | 03-January-1950 | |
 | Saphendu | Fezile | Minor, Worker, Casualty | 16 August 2012 | |
| Sapotela | Andile | July 1989 | ||
 | Saro-Wiwa | Kenule | Author, activist, civil servant, teacher, television producer | 10-October-1941 | 10-November-1995 |
| Sastri | V.S. Srinivasa | 1860 | 1946 | |
| Sathaswan | Cooper | |||
| Satini | Zwelindawa | |||
| Sauer | Magdalena | Architect | 06-May-1890 | 10-October-1983 |
| Sauer | Jacobus | Member of Parliament in the Cape, Minister of Native Affairs and Commissioner of Public Works. | circa 1850 | 24 July 1913 |
| Saul | Nkopodi | |||
| Savimbi | Jonas | Founder and President of UNITA in Angola | 3 August 1934 | 22 February 2002 | |
| Sawyer | Ethel | |||
| Sazi | Ngcobo | |||
 | Schadeberg | Jürgen | South African photographer and artist | 18-March-1931 | 29 August 2020 |
| Schall | Joan | A member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) | ||
| Schatler | Rose | A trade unionist | ||
| Schedrin | Joan | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) | ||
| Schedrin | Jack | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) | ||
 | Scheepers | Johanna (Joey) | Shopsteward, Secretary and Organizer of the central branch of the GWU of South Africa | 19-April-1915 | 14-April-1976 |
 | Scheepers | Gideon Jacobus | fxecuted Boer Commando leader and folk legend | 4 April 1878 | |
| Schermbrucker | Ivan | Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the Springbok Legion, South African Communist Party (SACP) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) | ||
| Schermbrucker | Leslie | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) | ||
| Schlebusch | Alwyn | |||
 | Schlemmer | Lawrence | author, sociologist, political analyst, Professor, Dean of Social Sciences, Director of Centre for Social and Development Studies at Natal University (now UKZN), chair of the Wits Centre for Policy Studies, founding member of the Academy of Science of | 11 September 1936 | 26 October 2011 |
 | Schlesin | Sonja | MK Gandhi’s South African Secretary | 06-June-1888 | 06-January-1956 |
 | Schmidt | Georg | Pioneer missionary in South Africa and founder of the first Protestant mission station in Southern Africa. | 30 September 1709 | 1 August 1785 |
| Schneider | Michael | A member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM). Lived in exile. | ||
| Schoon | Jeanette | An African National Congress (ANC) member and a trade unionist | ||
 | Schoon | Marius | Member of COD and activist | 22 June 1937 | 7 February 1999 |
| Schoon | Jeanette | |||
| Schoon | Katryn | |||
 | Schreiner | Olive | Feminist writer | 24-March-1855 | 11-December-1920 |
 | Schreiner | William | Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, lawyer, joined the Cape Parliament as representative of Kimberley, appointed Attorney General by Cecil John Rhodes | 30 October 1857 | 28 June 1919 |
 | Schreiner | Jennifer | Member of NUSAS, ANC, SACP and MK, secretary of the United Women's Organisation of the Western Cape (UWO). | 1956 | |
| Schreiner | Barbara | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) | ||
| Schrmbrucker | Ivan | |||
 | Schwarz | Harry | attorney, barrister (Member of Middle Temple) in London, United Kingdom, advocate at the South African Bar, political anti-apartheid opposition leader, Chair of the federal executiveof the Progressive Reform Party, defence lawyer in Rivonia Trial, Memb | 13 May 1924 | 5 February 2010 |
| Schwegmann | Wendy | Photographer | 1954 | ||
 | Scott | Michael | Ordained Anglican preacher, Anti-Apartheid Activist, Special Representative of the Herero people at the United Nations, founding member of the African Bureau, arrested for his participation in the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign in Durban, negotiated the return of Tshkedi and Seretse Khama to Botswana, helped broker a cease-fire be the people of Nagaland and the Indian Government. | 30 July 1907 | 14 September 1983 |
 | Seage | Lucas | Artist | 02-November-1956 | 03-November-2009 |
| Seakwe | Morakabe | |||
| Sealetsa | Samuel | 26.12.76 | ||
| Sealogo | Alfred | 10.8.76 | ||
 | Searelle | William | Composer, dramatist, impresario and South African theatrical pioneer in the English language | 1853 | 18-December-1907 |
 | Searle | Berni | Visual Artist | 07-July-1964 | |
 | Seatlholo | Khotso | Political activist, President of SSRC | 05-November-1958 | 13-February-2004 |
| Sebastian | Hempe | |||
 | Sebe | Lennox | Headmaster, assistant school inspector, advisor to the Paramount Chief Bazindlo Sandile, held the educational and agricultural portfolio in the Ciskei Territorial Authority, member of the Ciskei legislative Assembly and Chief Minister in 1973 | 26 June 1926 | 1994 |
| Sebeela | J.E | 26.12.76 | ||
| Sebei | Mamogase | Banned person. | ||
 | Sebeko | Archibald | Agricultural officer, trade union organiser, National Executive Committee member of SACTU, member of the African National Congress, 1956 Treason Trialist. | 03-March-1928 | 27-March-2018 |
| Sebenzile | Mqenqeni | |||
| Sebesebe | George | 31.12.76 | ||
 | Sebidi | Mmapula Mmakgoba | Artist and painter | 05-March-1943 | |
| Sebidi | Thomas | |||
| Sebugudi | Ntrouko | |||
 | Secchoareng | Abraham | Teacher, active in the Kimberley ANC | 1924 | |
| Sechai | Johannes | |||
 | Sedgwick | Michael | Member of the South African Black Scholars Association, youth organizerat the Churches Urban Planning Commission (CUPC), employed at the Department of Labour in the Western Cape | 20 February 1958 | |
| Sedibe | Refiloe Jackie | Member of the ANC and MK, Chief director of equal opportunities in the South African National Defence Force and Major General | 1945 | ||
| Sedick | Isaacs | |||
 | Sedisa | William | 21-March-1960 | ||
 | Seedat | Dawood | Founder member of the Liberal Study Group, elected secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa in Durban, member of the Natal Indian Congress, Liberal Study Group, India League, National Protest Day Committee (1950), and Stalin Memorial Committee, founder of the Indian Shop Assistant’s Union, banned person, political prisoner, listed in the United States of America Congress Report of 500 ‘most dangerous’ communists in the world in 1950, Treason Trialist in 1956, banned person, political prisoner | 1916 | 1976 |
 | Seedat | Fatima | Member of the Communist Party in Cape Town and after her marriage became a member of the Natal Indian Congress and the ANC. First jailed in 1946 for her role in the passive resistance in Durban, jailed for the second time in 19 | 14-October-1922 | 2003 |
 | Seedat | Hassim | Attorney, political prisoner, Natal Indian Congress treasurer, member of the Democratic Lawyers Association, first black member elected as a council member of the Natal Law Society, past chairman of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), trustee of the Gandhi Development Trust, member of the editorial board of Satyagraha newspaper, chair of the Mota Varachha Trust and chairman of the Freedom Park Trust History Durban Committee. | 1930 | 5 June 2019 |
 | Seeiso Moshoeshoe II | Motlotlehi (Constantine Bereng) | His Majesty, King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho | 2 May 1938 | 1996 |
 | Sefatsa | S | 21-March-1960 | ||
 | Sefularo | Molefi | Founder member of AZASO, Member of the ANC, medical doctor, lecturer, member of Witwatersrand University Council, national deputy minister of health. | 09 July 1957 | 05 April 2010 |
 | Segal | Ronald | A south african publisher | ||
| Segatle | Darius | Principal, a member of the ANC and banished person | ||
| Segegede | Jan | 26.12.76 | ||
| Segogela | Johannes | 1936 | |||
| Segola | Samuel | 11-November-1985 | |||
| Segole | Ebenizer | 07-September-1986 | |||
| Segoto | Joseph | 1960 | 14 August 1984 | |
| Segwale | Rose | 09-July-1977 | |||
| Sehlani | Pita | |||
| Sehularo | Isaac | |||
 | Seidman | Judy | |||
 | Seitshiro | Bennett | ANC member in Newclare | 1916 | |
| Sekele | Peter | |||
 | Sekete | Goerge | 21-March-1960 | ||
 | Sekete | G | 21-March-1960 | ||
| Sekete | Vincent | 28-November-1985 | |||
| Sekgapane | Reginald | |||
 | Sekhukhune | Matsebe | King of the Marota people (Bapedi) | 1814 | 13 August 1882 |
| Sekhukhune | William | Banished person. | ||
| Sekhukhune | Godfrey | Banished Person | ||
| Sekhukhune | Mankopodi | Banned person. | ||
| Sekhukhune | Morwamotse | Banished person | ||
| Sekhukhuni | Paul | 26.12.76 | ||
| Sekibelo | Mathe | |||
| Sekilo | P | |||
 | Sekitla | Miriam | 21-March-1960 | ||
| Sekonyela | Sekonyela | Chief of Batlokwa | 1804 | 1856 |
| Sekonyela | Kgosi | Chief of Batlokwa | 1804 | 20-July-1856 |
 | Sekoto | Jan | South African artist and musician | 09-September- 1913 | 20-March-1993 |
| Sekulu | Walter | |||
| Selane | Charles | 26.12.76 | ||
 | Selanyano | Johannes | 21-March-1960 | ||
 | Selassie I | Haile | Emperor of Ethiopia, exiled leader, Commander of Ethiopian Army, Messiah figure for Rastafarian religion | 23 July 1892 | 27 August 1975 |
 | Selborne | Lord William | High Commissioner in South Africa, and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. | 17-October-1859 | 26-February-1942 |
| Selby | Arnold | Freedom fighter. | 14-November-1918 | 27-August-2002 |
 | Selebi | Jacob | ANC Youth League head in exile, Member of the African National Congress, Member of Parliament, Director-General of the Department of Foreign Affairs, National Police Commissioner and President of Interpol | 7 March 1950 | |
| Seleka | Takatso | |||
| Selepe | Donald | |||
 | Selepe | Peter | Accused in the 1956 Treason Trial, Sergeant in the South African army in World War II, Member of Springbok Legion and of the ANC, insurance agent | 1919 | |
 | Selhorst | Josepha | Artist | 1914 | |
| Sello | 11/11/86 | |||
| Sello | Motlhabakwe | |||
| Sello | Motse | |||
| Selomo | Ray | |||
| Semabe | Petrus | |||
| Sembeya | Vorster | |||
 | Seme | Pixley | Lawyer, journalist, author member of the SANNC, launched the SANNC newspaper, Abantu Batho, President-General of the ANC | 1 October 1881 | 7 June 1951 |
 | Semenya | Mokgadi | Caster Semenya, one of the premier South African atheltes has been running since an early age. Setting multiple world records she has truly been an inspiration for South Africans | 07-January-1991 | |
| Semousi | Steven | 30.8.76 | ||
| Senatla | Tsotsi | |||
| Senatle | Vincent | 26.12.76 | ||
| Senzangakhona | 07-August-1981 | ||||
| Seohaba | Modibedi | |||
 | Seoka | Phuthuma | Artist | 1922 | 1997 |
| Seopa | Boy | Banished person | ||
| Seopa | Mamolatela |
Banished person | ||
| Seopa | Maphuti | Banished person | ||
| Seopa | Marapo | Banished person | ||
 | Sepamla | Sydney | Novelist and poet | 22-September-1932 | 09-January-2007 |
 | Sepampuru | Philemon | 21-March-1960 | ||
| Sepel | Ralph | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), African National Congress (ANC) and The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), based in the United Kingdom. | ||
| Sepel | Minnie | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and the African National Congress (ANC). | ||
 | Sepeng | Hezekiel | South African athlete of international stature, who became a Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games Silver Medallist | 30 June 1974 | |
| Sepere | Lehloenya | |||
| Seperepere | Mamping | |||
 | September | Reginald (Reggie) | Trade unionist, General Secretary of the South African Coloured People's Organisation, Secretary of the Franchise Action Council, 1956 Treason Trialist, political prisoner, executive member of the SACP and the ANC, member of the ANC's Revolutionary Cou | 13-June-1923 | 23-November-2013 |
 | September | Dulcie | ANC member, anti-apartheid activist, and political prisoner who went into exile in London. She was later assassinated in Paris. | 20- August-1935 | 29-March-1988 |
 | September | Connie | Trade Unionist, Deputy President COSATU, member of the ANC and Member of Parliament, Minister of Human Settlements. | 26-June-1959 | |
| September | Peter | |||
| Seqwana | Winifred | First African woman member of the Communist Party of South Africa in Langa, member of the African National Congress Womens League, Federation of South African Women, founder of the Langa Women’s Vigilance Association, national vice-president of the National Council of African Women (NCAW) and political prisoner | 1897 | 1961 | |
| Sergeant | Magaretsa | |||
| Seroke | Joki | ||||
 | Serote | Mongane | Poet, novelist, political activist, exile, member of the Black Consciousness Movement and African National Congress, Commander in uMkhonto weSizwe and Member of Parliament | 08-May-1944 | |
| Seroto | Matikwane | |||
| Sesedi | Sam P. | Teacher, butcher, executive member of the All African Convention and the ANC,ran successfully for election to the Natives' Representative Council in 1949, winning the Cape rural constituency, President of the Location Advisory Boards Congress | 1895 | 1960 |
 | Seteane | Sanana | 21-March-1960 | ||
| Seti | Gladstone | |||
| Setiko | Patrick | |||
| Setloge | Robert | |||
| Setshedi | Reuben | |||
| Setsoba | Charles | |||
| Sewela | Gladstone | 23 December 1988 | ||
 | Sewgolum | Sewsunker | Golfer | 1930 | 06-July-1978 |
 | Sewpersadh | George | Lawyer, President of the NIC, banned, politcal detainee, member of the UDF | 7 October 1936 | |
 | Sexwale | Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) | ANC political activist, former premier of Gauteng Province and currently Minister of Human Settlements | 5 March 1953 | |
| Sexwale | Leseja | 13/08/81 | ||
 | Shabalala | Joseph | Musician | 28-August-1941 | 11-February-2020 |
| Shabalala | Lucky | Sculptor | 1962 | |
| Shabalala | Amos | |||
 | Shabalala | Mduduzi | Member of the ANC and MK, exiled person, Robben Island prisoner, Treasurer of Lamontville Youth Congress | 24 July 1965 | |
| Shabang | Hlapang | |||
| Shabangu | Mandla | |||
| Shabangu | Portia | |||
| Shabangu | Doctor | 26.12.76 | ||
| Shabangu | Nkosinathi | 5 June 1987 | ||
 | Shabangu | Susan | Secretary for the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Federation of Transvaal Women; member of the Anti-Republic Campaign Committee; Release Mandela Campaign Committee; organiser and administrator for the Amalgamated Black Worker's Project; representative of the Transport and General Workers' Union (T and GWU); member of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) National Women's Subcommittee; African National Congress’s (ANC) National Election Steering Committee; Member of Parliament; Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy; ANC National Working Committee; member of National Executive Council (NEC) of the ANC; Deputy Minister of Safety and Security; Minister of Women in the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa; Minister of Social Development. | 28 February 1956 | |
| Shabangu | Elliot | Activist with the ANC and SACTU | ||
| Shadrack | Mbekile | |||
| Shadrack | Ndlakuhlolo | |||
| Shadrack | Ngcutushe | |||
| Shall | Sydney | Volunteer in the Defiance Campaign. Active in student affairs at University of the Witwatersrand | 1932 | |
| Shangase | Nomava | Member of the ANC and MK and medical doctor | 09-May-1931 | 23-October-1981 |
| Shangase | Absolom | |||
 | Shange | Victor | Artist | 1958 | |
 | Shange | Cynthia | First Black beauty queen to represent South Africa at Miss World pageant, veteran actress and model | 1949 | |
| Shange | Jerry | |||
| Shange | Wiseman | |||
 | Shanley | Dorothy | Arrested and detained for political activities | 18-October-1920 | 04-April-2001 |
 | Shanley | Errol T. | Member of the CPSA and was active in the Party-inspired Anti–Fascist League, serving as its Natal secretary. During the Second World War, Shanley was the secretary of the Natal section of Trades and Labour Council. Secretary of the Suga | April 1911 | 23-March-2002 |
| Shapiro | Naomi | A journalist for the Guardian news paper and a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | |||
 | Shapiro | Jonathan | Cartoonist and activist | 27-October-1958 | |
| Shapiro | Gaby | A member of the African National Congress (ANC) | ||
| Sharp | Alfred | |||
| Shelembe | Oscar | |||
 | Shell | Robert | Foremost historian of Cape slavery, Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi 2003, author of acclaimed book on Cape slavery, Children of Bondage, husband of Dr Sandra Rowoldt-Shell and father of Elisabeth Rozalette Shell. | 13-February-1949 | 03-February- 2015 |
 | Shembe | Isaiah | Approx 1870s | 1935 | |
| Shepard | Ngakumbu | |||
 | Shepstone | Theophilus | British South African statesman, an administrator of native affairs, who was responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877. | 8 January 1817 | 23 June 1893 |
| Shepstone | Theophilus | British South African statesman, Administrator of Native Affairs, responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 | 08-January-1817 | 23-June-1893 |
| Sheweni | Albert | 1932 | 31 October 1967 | |
| Shezi | Inkosi Sigananda | 1810 | June 1906 | |
| Shezi | Mandla | |||
| Shibane | Samuel | |||
 | Shiceka | Sicelo | Member of COSAS, COSATU ANC and the SACP, MEC for Local Government in Gauteng, Minister of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | 8 June 1966 | 30 April 2012 |
| Shifidi | Immanuel | |||
| Shihlomule | Samuel | 26.12.76 | ||
| Shihungeleni | Simeon | |||
 | Shikomba | Gaus | OPO, SWAPO and SWALA member, who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his role as an activist | 27 January 1935 | 3 November 2007 |
 | Shilakoe | Cyprian | Artist | 03-August-1946 | 07-September-1972 |
| Shililifa | Heikkie | |||
| Shinange | Reckson | 00/00/88 | ||
 | Shinners | Mark | Political activist, PAC Member, Chairperson of ASUS, member of Makana Football Club | ||
| Shiponeni | Johannes | |||
| Shirish | Kanabhai | |||
 | Shiryaev | Viacheslav | Diplomat, military specialist, for his contribution to the struggle against apartheid and attainment of a democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa, and promoting friendship ties, joint cooperation programmes and projects between Russia and po | January 1938 | |
| Shitilifa | Phillemon | |||
| Shitwete | Joseph | |||
 | Shivambu | Nyiko | Member of Parliament for the Economic Freedom Fighters. | 1 January 1983 | |
| Shivute | Michael | 17-June-1969 | |||
| Shlaza | Goodwill | 3 June 1992 | ||
| Shlemmer | Lawrence | A member of the Institute for Industrial Education. | ||
| Shoke | Zacharia Solly | MK field commander, Director Personnel Planning of the SANDF, Director of Integration when MK, APLA and SADF were merged to form the SANDF, commanded the South African Development Countries forces during Operation Boleas in Lesotho, Major General and the Chief Director Human Resources Support, Chief of the SA Army | 15 August 1956 | |
| Shole | Layorus | |||
| Shomang | Andrew | 22.8.76 | ||
| Shongwe | Freddie | 11-November-1986 | |||
| Shonyeka | Hangula | 09-October-1966 | |||
 | Shope | Mark | Chairman the African Laundry Workers' Union, acting chairman of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, General Secretary of the South African | 1918 | 1998. |
 | Shope | Gertrude | Teacher, member of the ANC, chairperson of the Central Western Jabavu Branch of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW). | 15-August-1925 | |
 | Shope | M. J. M. | acting chairman of the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, Treason trialist | 1919 | |
| Shuma | Patrick | December 1993 | ||
| Shumang | Lebogang | 26.12.76 | ||
| Shusha | Majola | 1912 | 6 July 1962 | |
 | Sibande | Richard | Organised farm workers, member of the ANC, accused in the Treason Trial of 1956, helped expose working condtions in Bethal, provincial president of the Transvaal ANC | 1907 | 13-March-1987 |
 | Sibande | Mary | Artist | 1982 | |
| Sibande | Peter | |||
| Sibankulu | Professor | 12 November 1992 | ||
| Sibanyone | Ben | |||
| Sibanyoni | Diagon-Roderick | |||
| Sibanyoni | Rodrigues | |||
| Sibanyoni | Seuntjie | 26.12.76 | ||
 | Sibeko | David | Journalist, insurance agent, political prisoner, exiled person, member of the PAC leader, PAC's chief representative in East Africa, head of the PAC's mission to Europe and the Americas, PAC's permanent observer at the United Nations | 26 August 1938 | 12 June 1979 |
| Sibeko | Johannes | 7.9.76 | ||
| Sibeko | Titus | 6.8.76 | ||
| Sibiloane | Aubrey | 12 July 1991 | ||
 | Sibisi | Joel | Artist | 1945 | |
| Sibisi | Paul | |||
 | Sibisi | Paul | Artist | 23-September-1948 | |
| Sibisi | Sithembiso | 1976 | 2006 | |
| Sibisi | Tikkie | Photographer | 1975 | |
| Sibisi | Jabulani | 06-August-1988 | |||
| Sibisi | Jabulani | |||
| Sibisi | Sipho | 11/11/77 | ||
 | Sibiya | Lucky | Visual Artist | 1942 | 1999 |
| Sibiya | Ndlela | 11-September-1986 | |||
| Sibiya | John | 26.12.76 | ||
| Sibonyoni | Delmas | |||
| Sibulelo | Mtshaza | |||
| Sibusiso | Mabaso | |||
| Sibusiso | Majola | |||
| Sibusiso | Mpahlwa | |||
| Sibusiso | Xaba | |||
| Sibusisomuntu | Nxumalo | |||
| Sicelo | Lutywantsi | |||
| Sidindi | Ntshontsho | |||
| Sidney | Sismane | |||
| Sidondi | Greyton | 12.8.76 | ||
| Sidwell | Bolosha | |||
| Sidwell | Mnguni | |||
| Sidwell | Ngqola | |||
| Siegfried | Bengu | |||
| Sifiso | Buthelezi | |||
| Sifiso | Mathengela | |||
 | Sigamoney | Bernard | Political activist, minister, chairman and founding official of SANROC, trade unionist, sportsman, educator. | 1888 | 3 April 1963 |
| Sigasa | Bofana | 19 July 1989 | ||
 | Sigcau | Stella Margaret | Member of the African National Congress Youth League, member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly, Minister of Roads and Works and over the next 20 years handled several ministerial portfolios, including energy, education, interior and posts and telecommunications. Instrumental in having single mothers granted land ownership rights in the Transkei, appointed to the cabinet of George Matanzima as Minister of Telecommunications, Prime Minister of the Transkei,member of the national executive committee of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa), headed the ANC Women's League in the Transkei. Served on the Transitional Executive Councilsub-council on foreign affairs. Appointed Minister of Public Enterprises in Government. Member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC | 04-January-1937 | 07-May-2006 |
| Siggibo | Gongo | |||
| Sigodwana | Klaas | |||
| Sigubudu | Chiyi | ||||
| Sigwayi | Mhlaba | 1936 | 7 February 1963 | |
 | Sigwela | Ezra | Ezra Mvuyisa Sigwela is currently the South African Ambassador in Rwanda. | ||
| Sigxashe | Sizakele | Member of the ANC and MK, Lecturer, Commissioner in the Stuart Commission and First Director General National Intelligence Agency. | 21-June-1937 | 13-December-2011 | |
| Sihawu | Mputumi | |||
| Sihlali | Durant | 1935 | ||
 | Sihlali | Durant | artist, teacher | 05-March-1935 | |
| Sihlali | Leo | Teacher, political activist, member of NEUM, Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and founder member of APDUSA. | 9 September 1915 | 20 March 1989 |
| Sijake | Sandi | ||||
| Sikga | Rakosa | |||
 | Sikhakhane | Jabulani | |||
 | Sikhakhane-Rankin | Joyce | Journalist, author, TV producer, editor, member of the ANC, worked for the National Intelligence Agency and the SABC | 1943 | |
| Sikumbuzo | Mtsweni | |||
| Sikundla | Jacob | |||
| Silas | Magotsi | |||
| Silas | Seboge | |||
| Sileke | Robert | 23.8.76 | ||
| Silelo | Spelman | |||
| Sililo | A. | Leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in Durban, and prominent in the All African Convention, elected to the Natives' Representative Council in 1937, member of the ANC's National Executive Committee, Provincial secretary of the Natal ANC | ||
| Sililo | Joseph | 1908 | 9 May 1961 | |
| Silinga | Annie | Member of the ANC, member of the executive committee of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), defendant in the 1956 Treason trial, president of the Cape Town ANC Women’s League | 1910 | 1984 | |
| Silwana | Stanley | One of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923, teacher, helped organise the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), organiser for the African National Congress (ANC) | ||
| Simangamanga | Cunda | |||
 | Simelane | Pitness (Stalwart) H. | Teacher, assistant secretary of the Natal ANC, he led the first batch of Durban volunteers in the Defiance Campaign, member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, provincial treasurer and later secretary of the Natal | 1910 | |
 | Simelane | Nokuthula | Member of the ANC and uMkhonto we Sizwe and Student activist. | 1960 | 1983 |
| Simelane | Ray | |||
| Simelane | Benjamin | 26.12.76 | ||
| Simelane | Patrick | |||
 | Simelane | Eudy | LGBTQI+ activist, member of the South African national women’s soccer team (Banyana Banyana) | 11 March 1977 | 28 April 2008 |
| Simmers | Robert Melvin | |||
| Simon | Nkosi | ||||
 | Simon | Barney | Writer, Playwright and Director | April 13, 1932 | June 30, 1995 |
| Simon | Dladla | |||
| Simon | Dondashe | |||
| Simon | Fana | |||
| Simon | Gwebani | |||
| Simon | Magale | |||
| Simon | Mahlangu | |||
| Simon | Mashigo | |||
| Simon | Msibi | |||
| Simon | Nkosi | |||
| Simon | Ramalitse | |||
| Simon | Siwa | |||
 | Simons | Ray | Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Workers Uninon, founding member of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), author, recipient of the ANC's Isithwalandwe Award | 12-January-1914 | 12-September-2004 |
| Simons | Harold | Taught African law and administration at the University of Cape Town, charged for sedition in 1946 mineworkers strike, member of the central committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), banned person, scholar and author | 1 February 1907 | 22 July 1995 |
| Simons | Mary | An Academic. | ||
| Simpompo | Msongo | |||
| Simpson | William Henry | |||
| Sin­dile | Manatanya­na | |||
 | Sinclair | Jean | Founder member and first president of the Black Sash in 1955, led the organization until 1975, recipient of the Government's Order of the Baobab in Silver | 02-July-1908 | 06-June-1996 |
| Sindane | Jacob | 11-November | |||
| Sindane | Jacob | 00/00/88 | ||
| Sindane | Njinga | 11/11/89 | ||
| Sindile | Mazibuko | |||
| Sindile | Ngqebisa | |||
 | Singana | Margaret | Musician | 01-January-1938 | 22-April-2000 |
| Singer | Zollie | A lawyer and a member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) | ||
| Singh | B. | |||
 | Singh | Debi | Teacher, farmer, secretary of the Anti-Segregation Council, secretary of the Passive Resistance Council of the Natal Indian Congress. He was imprisoned during the passive resistance campaign and again during the Defiance Campaign&nb | 1913 | 1970 |
 | Singh | Ansuyah | Medical doctor, community activist and author. | 12-June-1917 | 27-November -1978 |
| Singh | Jaydew | Lawyer, secretary of the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council. Member of the executive committee of both the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the South Afri | c 1920 | |
| Singh | Rajah Sir Maharaj | 1878 | 1959 | |
 | Singh | Sunny Girja | Chairman of Military Committee in Maputo, Robben island prisoner, exile, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC Representative in Holland | 1939 | 20 November 2025 |
| Singxesa | Nwayi | 1912 | 18 September 1962 | |
 | Siopis | Penny | South African Artist | 05-February-1953 | |
| Sipele | Mxolisi | June-1984 | |||
| Siphenuka | Ndumiso | 1964 | 20 April 1989 | |
| Siphiwo | Sobuwa | |||
| Sipho | Vilakazi | |||
| Sipho | Buthelezi | |||
| Sipho | Dubase | |||
| Sipho | Mdushane | |||
| Sipho | Nodlawu | |||
| Siqila | Mabaso | banished person | ||
| Siquntu | Mqambalala | ||||
| Siquntu | Mqambalala | |||
| Siramane | Phillip | |||
| Sisa | Mabuya | |||
| Sishange | Themba | |||
| Sishi | Jabulani | |||
 | Sisulu | Lindiwe | ANC Political Activist | 10-May-1954 | |
 | Sisulu | Albertina | Albertina Sisulu 'the mother of the nation', activist and nurse, who has struggled for her whole life human rights and dignity. | 21-October-1918 | 02-June-2011 |
 | Sisulu | Walter | South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and one of the foremost influences in South African politics. | 18-May-1912 | 05-May-2003 |
 | Sisulu | Zwelakhe | journalist, President of Media Workers Association of South Africa, business executive, former SABC CEO, | 17 December 1950 | 4 October 2012 |
| Sita | Nana | Secretary of the Pretoria branch of the TIC, involved the Indian Passive Resistance Movement, member of the executives of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council, President of the Transvaal Indian Congress, | 1898 | 23 December 1969 |
 | Sita | Maniben | Anti-apartheid activist; teacher; during the Passive Resistance Campaign in 1946, she and Mrs Thayanayagie Pillay, organised a group of women volunteers who formed the Indian Women’s Support League, political prisoner | 24 December 1926 | 7 July 2021 |
 | Sitas | Ari | 5 December 1952 | ||
| Sithadatu | Gambushe | |||
| Sithebe | Mkosiwathi | |||
| Sithembiso | Zimu | |||
 | Sithole | Lucas | South African sculptor hailed by some critics as Africa’s major Black sculptor | 15-November-1931 | 08-May-1994 |
| Sithole | Eric | |||
| Sithole | Isaac | |||
| Sithole | Bonginkosi | July 1993 | ||
| Sithole | Clayton | 30-January-1990 | |||
 | Sithole | Edson | 1935 | 1975 | |
 | Sithole | Jabu | mathematics lecturer, political prisoner, member of ANC, SACP and MK, Natal Chairperson of Operation Vula | 23 October 1949 | 27 July 2014 |
| Sitishi | Mpontso | |||
| Sitshoni. Z.C. | 26.12.76 | |||
| Situngata | Galeni | |||
| Situsake | Ngalo | |||
| Siva | Pillay | |||
| Sivuku | Bandile | |||
| Siwela | Themba | 1975 | ||
| Siwela | Bongane | (approx 1989) | ||
| Siyothula | Mannert | |||
| Siza | Benny | |||
| Siza | Hlongwa | |||
| Sizatu | Zikatile | |||
| Skhosana | Ntela | Exiled person, MK Commissar, Robben Island prisoner, member of the African National Congress and South African Communist Party and South African National Defence Force | 23 August 1964 | ||
| Skhosana | Mzwakhe | |||
| Skomolo | John J. | Anglican priest, member of the ANC national executive committee, ANC chaplain,and helped to organise volunteers for the Defiance Campaign of 1952 in his Aliwal North. He later became inactive in the Congress movement and joined the Liberal Party | ||
 | Skosana | Ben M. | 7 May 1947 | ||
| Skosana | Ben | Teacher, member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), a permanent representative of the IFP in London, committee member of the Reconstruction and Development Programme in government, Minister of Correctional Services | 07-May-1947 | |
| Skosana | Samuel | 11/11/78 | ||
| Skosana | Audrey | |||
 | Skota | Mweli | Clerk, journalist, court interpreter, and businessman, one of the founders of the ANC newspaper, Abantu-Batho, and served as its editor in the late 1920s, secretary-general of the ANC, member of the executive committee of t | c 1880s | |
 | Skotnes | Cecil | Painter and woodcutter | 01-June-1926 | 07-April-2009 |
| Skweyiya | Khaya | ||||
| Skweyiya | Singingo | |||
| Skweyiya | Khanya | |||
 | Sleigh | Dan |
South African historian and novelist. He began working in the Navy and later in education. During the 1960s, he graduated with a BA degree in History and English and in 1987 would obtain his doctorate in History. His interest in Dutch and maritime history would play an important role in the novels he published. He has won several accolades for his writing. | 3 November 1938 | |
 | Slovo | Joe | Member of the South Africa Communist Party, founding member of the Congress of Democrats, accused in the 1956 Treason Trial, earliest member of MK, Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a member of the Central Committee of the SACP, and served on the revolutionary council of the ANC from 1969 until its dissolution in 1983, General Secretary and Chairman of the SACP and former Minister of Housing | 23-May-1926 | 06-January-1995 |
 | Small | Adam | Poet, playwright, academic, philosopher, columnist, social worker, Black Consciousness activist, one of the founders of UWC, recipient of the Order for Meritorious Service (Gold), the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns awards, Honorary Degrees from the universities of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), Port Elizabeth (now Nelson Mandela University), the Western Cape, and Stellenbosch, 2012 Hertzog Prize, and Civic Honours from City of Cape Town | 21 December 1936 | 25 June 2016 |
 | Smiesing | Jan | Enslaved person, school master and healer at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town. | 1697 | 1734 |
| Smit | Sandi | 1962 | |||
| Smith | Trevor | Part of the The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) based in the United Kingdom | ||
| Smith | Stan | Part of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) bused in te United Kingdom. | ||
| Smith | Howard | A member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) | ||
| Smith | Barbara | A Teacher involved with the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) | ||
 | Smith | Graeme | South African cricket captain and opening batsman. Youngest cricket captain in South African history. First to reach one hundred test caps as captain in the world. | 1 February 1981 | |
 | Smith | Charlene | |||
| Smith | Johannes Anthonie | |||
 | Smith | Vesta | Member of the African National Congress, member of the Executive Committee of the Black People’s Convention, founding member of the United Democratic Front, co-chair of the Anti-President’s Council Committee, political prisoner, co-chair of | 20-July-1922 | 09-September-2013 |
 | Smith | Margaret | Margaret Smith was an ichthyologist, painter, musician, museologist and an academic. She illustrated the book Sea Fishes of Southern Africa, which was written by her husband Prof James Leonard Brierley Smith | 26-September-1916 | 08-September-1987 |
| Smith | Maggie | journalist, news editor, political prisoner | 25-October-1930 | 18-November-2015 | |
| Smith | Alinah | 29 April 1992 | ||
| Smith | Solly | May 1993 | ||
| Smithard | George Salisbury | |||
 | Smuts | Jan | Politician, world-famed statesman, soldier, naturalist, philosopher and former Prime Minister of South Africa | 24 May 1870 | 11 September 1950 |
| Snitcher | Harry | Advocate, Queens Council, member of the Central Committee of the CPSA | 10 May 1911 | 1999 |
| Snitcher | Flora | Part of the Guardian | ||
| Snitcher | Theo | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) | ||
| Snuma | Nceba | |||
| Snyders | Simon | |||
| Sobhuza | Sobhuza I | 1795 | ||
| Sobhuza | Sobhuza I | First king of the Swazi | 1795 | 1836* |
| Sobikwa | Climent | |||
 | Sobukwe | Robert | Teacher, lecturer, lawyer, Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC branch in Standerton, founding member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and Robben Island prisoner. | 5 December 1924 | 27 February 1978 |
 | Sobukwe | Zondeni | Political activist and health practitioner | 27 July 1927 | 15 August 2018 |
| Soci | Houghton | ||||
| Sodere | Ndumiso | |||
| Sofute | Bukiwe | |||
| Soga | Janet | Scottish and a wife of Tiyo Soga a South Africa Presbyterian. | 18-March-1827 | 01-September-1903 | |
 | Soga | Tiyo | Writer | May-1829 | 12-August-1871 |
 | Soga | Allan | Magistrate, labour bureau agent and a road inspector, journalist, founder and secretary of the Bantu Union, a Cape voters' association | ||
| Soga | Archibald | |||
| Soga | Robert | |||
 | Soga | Jotello | First South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon, pioneered research in the study of toxic plants, co-founded the Cape of Good Hope Veterinary Medical Society (now the South African Veterinary Association – SAVA) | 1865 | 6 December 1906 |
| Sogawayi | Mzimkhulu | October 1986 | ||
| Sogibag(Sobyiba) Batwa | ||||
| Sogwagwa | Jonathan | 1933 | 27 September 1963 | |
| Sojaka | Samuel | |||
| Sojane | Mxolisi | |||
| Soka | Zwelibanzi | |||
 | Sokanyile | Pumzile Sokanyile | Minor, Worker, Casualty | 16 August 2012 | |
| Solami | Madinani | |||
| Sole | Kelwyn | ||||
| Solly | Moroape | |||
| Solly.ngubeni | 06-January-1986 | ||||
| Solomon | William Edwart Gladstone | |||
 | Solomon | Marcus | Socialist, political activist, librarian and treasurer and bursary committee member of the Cape Peninsula Students Union, Robben Island prisoner, banned person | 27 January 1939, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape | |
| Solomon | Mabuse | |||
| Solomon | Musi | |||
| Solomon | Phetla | |||
| Solomon | Sefotlhelo | |||
| Solomon | Stuurman | |||
| Solomon | Zitha | |||
 | Solomon | Theresa | Community activist, political prisoner, member of the United Democratic Front and the African National Congress, Cape Town’s first black woman mayor, High Commissioner to Tanzania and Canada | 1945 | 7 July 2025 |
 | Solomon | Bertha | South African lawyer, politician, author, one of the country's early advocates for women's rights, one of the first women barristers in South Africa, first provincial councillor in the Transvaal Provincial Council, United Party Member of Parliament, founded the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II, one of the founders of the Women’s Aviation Association. | 1 January 1892 | 1969 |
 | Sols | Cecil | Photographer and member of Afrapix | ||
 | Sompeta | Mzukisi | Miner, Worker, Marikana Casuality | 16 August 2012 | |
| Sonamzi | Goli | 1936 | 07-February-1963 | ||
| Songluka | Mlungisi | |||
 | Sonn | Percival | President of the International Cricket Council (ICC), South Africa’s leading cricket administrator and an advocate by profession | 25 September 1949 | 27 May 2007 |
 | Sonn | Franklin | October 1939 | 15 November 2025 | |
 | Sono | Matsilela | Businessman and soccer player | 17-July-1955 | |
 | Sono | Themba | President of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) from 1971 until 3 July 1972 and co-founder of the BPC. Academic, author and a Member of Parliament for Gauteng Legislature and National Deputy president of the Independent Democrats. | 1942 | |
| Sonti | Linda | |||
 | Sontonga | Enoch | Choirmaster, poet, preacher, composer and author of the first stanza of "Nkosi Sikelel ‘iAfrika," the anthem South Africa adopted after its first democratic elections in 1994 | 1873 | 18-April-1905 |
 | Soobben | Deseni | Photographer, Lecturer | 1963 | |
| Sorabji | Shapurji | Bookkeeper, store manager, passive resister, barrister, political prisoner | 13 July 1918 | |
| Sosibo | Washington | 28 August 1992 | ||
| Sotomela | Ndukwane | |||
| Soze | Richard | 11-November-1991 | |||
 | Sparg | Marion | Journalist, a member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) | ||
 | Sparks | Allister | Anti- apartheid journalist, broadcaster, writer | 10 March 1933 | |
| Spears | Frank Sydney | 1906 | ||
| Speedo | Dudu | |||
| Spencer | Gege | |||
 | Spencer | Lloyd | 1955 | ||
| Spilhaus | Pauline Augusta Wilhelmina (Nita) | |||
| Spogter | Johannes | 1928 | 05-July-1985 | ||
| Spogter | Johannes | 1928 | 05-July-1985 | ||
 | Sprigg | Gordon | Gordon Sprigg (1830-1913) was a British colonial administrator and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in four separate terms: 1878-1881, 1886-1890, 1896-1898 and 1900-1904. Sprigg was a supporter of federation rather than of a Union for South Africa. | 27 April 1830 | 4 February 1913 |
 | Stainbank | Mary | Sculptor and art lecturer | 1899 | 1996 |
| Standard | Cugani | |||
| Stanford | Hlekani | |||
| Stanford | Sizani | |||
| Stanford | Walter | Magistrate, Representative of the Cape Province in the Natives Land Commission, Secretary of Native Affairs, Under-Secretary of Native Affairs, Senator in the Union of South Africa. | August 2, 1850 | September 9, 1933 |
| Stanley | Marankana | |||
| Stanley | Matimela | |||
| Stanley | Mlambi | |||
| Stanley | Molusi | |||
| Stanton | Hannah | A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) and the Black Sash, political prisoner, worked at Defence and Aid, London, lecturer at Makerere University, in Uganda, teaching theology and caring for students, secretary of the World Conference of Religions for Peace, social worker and theologian | 30-November-1913 | 09-December-1993. |
| Stanton | Thomas | |||
 | Steele | Richard | Conscientious Objector, Pacifist, Anti-conscription Activist, Leader of End Constriction Campaign, Baptist, Homeopath | 1956 | |
 | Stein | Sylvester | Writer, editor of Drum magazine from 1955- 8 and publisher | 25-December-1920 | 28-December-2015 |
 | Stein | Isaiah | member of SACPO, exile, active in SANROC | 26-October-1931 | 20-January-2011 |
| Stent | Mike | A member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). | ||
| Stephen | Nkebe | |||
| Stephens | Nkosi | |||
 | Stern | Irma | Artist | 02- October-1894 | 23-August-1966 |
| Steven | Matlou | |||
| Stewart | Charlie | |||
 | Steyn | Pieter | Engineer, researcher, professor, author, for his contribution to and achievements in chemistry and biosynthesis of Mycotoxins was awarded The Order of Mapungubwe in Silver | 5 January 1940 | |
 | Steyn | Hendrik Pieter Marthinus | 9 September 1886 | 14 August 1963 | |
 | Steyn | Jan | advocate, lecturer, writer, judge, former head of the Urban Foundation | 04 March 1928 | 30 December 2013 |
| Stofile | Bangana | |||
 | Stopforth | Paul | South African Artist (painter and graphic artist) | 1945 | |
| Storm | Blizz | A member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) | ||
 | Stott | Eulalie | Founding member of the Liberal Party, Anti-apartheid activist, President of the Black Sash and Founding member of the Women’s Movement for Peace. | 04-August-1922 | 28-February-2010 |
 | Strachan | Harold | Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist | 01-December-1925 | February 2020 |
| Strachan | Garth | A member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) | ||
| Strachan | Brigid | |||
 | Strijdom | Johannes | Prime Minister of South Africa, secretary of the National Party | 14-July-1893 | 24-August-1958 |
| Struben | Edith Frances Mary | c. 1868 | 1936 | |
| Stubbs | Anthony | Anti-apartheid cleric and published Steve Biko's collected writings | 1923 | 2004 |
| Stuckenberg | Borge | |||
| Stuurman | Mlungise | 26-July-1986 | |||
 | Stuurman | David | Leader of the Khoi people, banished person | circa 1773 | 22 February 1830 |
| Stuurman | Jeffrey | 26.12.76 | ||
| Sukwini | Verdict | |||
 | Sumner | Maud Francis Eyston | 6 September 1902 | 1985 | |
 | Surtie-Richards | Shaleen | Stage, film, and television actress | 7 May 1955 | 7 June 2021 |
| Susele | Mkhulwa | |||
 | Suttner | Raymond | Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa and author | 29 August 1945 | |
| Sutu | Stadi | |||
 | Suzman | Helen | Parliamentarian, Human Rights Activist, sole representative of opposition party (the Progressive Party) in parliament during apartheid | 07-November-1917 | 01-January-2009 |
| Swart | Charles | Schoolteacher, magistrate's clerk, advocate, farmer, lecturer, last Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, secretary of the OFS Referees' Association, Chief whip of the National Party, Minister of Justice, Minister of Education. | 5 December 1894 | 1982 |
 | Swart | Gert | Co-founder the Community Arts Workshop in Durban | 10-April-1952 | |
| Swart | Christie | 8.9.76 | ||
| Swartbooi | Bushy | 11-November-1983 | |||
| Swartbooi | Mayoyo | |||
| Sydney | Adams | |||
| Sydney | Digabane | |||
| Sydney | Mde | |||
| Sydwell | Phathekile | |||
| Sylvester | Siboza |