Born in Cape Town on September 25, 1949, Percival Sonn, universally known as Percy, dedicated much of his life to the development of the game of cricket in the former townships and the marginalised communities of South Africa. He was educated at the University of the Western Cape and obtained his law degree in 1972. 

Anthony Richard Peter Stubbs was born in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1923, and educated at Eton, at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the College of the Resurrection at Mirfield.

After matriculating, Sumner moved to London to study and teach English. In 1922 she completed her English Literature studies, receiving a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University. Although she had trained to be a teacher and her father thought art an unstable career, her temperament was that of an artist. Soon after completing her studies she decided to pursue a painting career.

Josiah Thugwane was the first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal.

He was born on 22 April 1971 in the small town Bethal, eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). Josiah Thugwane did not receive much education while he was growing up. He learned to read and write after winning his Gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics, 1996. He started as a local soccer player and in 1990 started running marathons to support his poor family.

Robert Tunsi was born in 1914. He was a businessman and he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1937. He was chairman of the committee which built the first independent primary school in Newclare.

Beauclerk Upington, eldest son Sir Thomas Upington, was born on 29 March, 1873. He arrived in Cape Town at the age of one. He was educated at the South African College School, Cape Town, and Trinity College, Dublin. After completing his legal studies, he was admitted as an attorney at the Cape Bar in 1898. He became a famous lawyer in Cape Town and managed to establish the largest legal firm there. He also served in parliament as a representative of the Harbour division and later the Liesbeek division. In 1919 he resigned from parliament.

Yende was recruited into the PAC and APLA by Themba Phikwane in Alexandra Township, north of Johannesburg, in 1976. Phikwane, who had just returned from exile where he had received military training, trained Yende with firearms and explosives. After completing his training, Yende was commissioned to recruit and screen new members for underground activities and to distribute APLA and PAC literature in Alexandra Township.

Sheik Yusuf, ruler of Gowa on the Islands of Celebes in South East Asia, was born in 1626. He was also the brother of the Sultan of Macassar. In 1646 Yusuf went to Bantam in Java to spread the Islamic faith, where he married the daughter of Abdul Fatah, the Sultan of Bantam, also known as Ageng (the Great). He supported his father-in-law against the Dutch East In dia Company (D.E.I.C) in the struggle to gain a trade monopoly.

He was born in Eshowe. He attended Ndaleni Art School in 1971 and continued Fine Art studies at the University of South Africa receiving a BA(FA).

He has taught at a number of schools in Gauteng and KZN.

He is a painter and graphic artist and his work includes landscapes, figure studies, abstracts, genre paintings and still lifes. In 1981 he won first prize in Drawing and Painting at the University of Zululand Festival of African Art. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions.

Sarah Gertrude Mary Christina Holland was born on 11 April 1952, in Durban. On 9 February 2010, Holland’s house was destroyed by a fire which claimed the lives of 11 people, including her.

In 2005, she established an orphanage called the Hope in Christ Mission as a non-profit organisation on a farm in Ingogo, northern KwaZulu-Natal. Its main purpose was to provide a dignified homecare service to orphans and abused and abandoned children.