Literature

South African playwright, actor, and novelist world famous for his cutting portrayal of apartheid

Teacher, journalist, playwright, novelist, founder of the Shah Theatre Academy, Marketing Manager of the Baxter Theatre,...

banned person, political prisoner, Member of SASO, BPC and BCP, medical doctor, academic, anthropologist, Vice Chancello...

South African Artist and writer

Political prisoner, poet, journalist, and editor

Renowned author of Cry, the Beloved Country, founding member and leader of the Liberal Party

Author and poet

Writer, women's rights campaigner, ANC member and politician

Thinker, orator and writer

author, sociologist, political analyst, Professor, Dean of Social Sciences, Director of Centre for Social and Developmen...

Political activist, Banned person, Political prisoner, member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), Writer, Author and Artist

Poet, novelist, political and cultural activist, banned person, co-founder of Congress of South African Writers, worked ...

"I am not a herald of community or anything else. I am someone who has intimations of freedom (as every chained prisoner...

Teacher, civil servant, novelist, poet, playwright, women’s activist, awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze for...

Social anthropologist, world-renowned social scientist, author, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) member of Parliament

Novelist, short-story writer and the first Black woman in South Africa to publish a novel.

Choirmaster, poet, preacher, composer and author of the first stanza of "Nkosi Sikelel ‘iAfrika," the anthem South Afric...

Writer

Journalist, Native Representative in the House of Assembly,Western Cape, chief editor of the Guardian, editor of the Afr...

Linguist, writer, and educator

Poet, musician, painter, historian, teacher, philosopher

member of Cape Women’s Enfranchisement League, friend of Olive Schreiner, politically opposed Jan Smuts government, lect...

journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP

A Kenyan born academic, author and social activist 

author, literator, journalist, editor, academic, first woman to become Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch

Trade Unionist, Garment Worker’s Union, Playright

Teacher, member of SASO and the ANC, head of the Medu Arts Ensemble (Gaborone), Member of COSAW, Secretary General of th...

Scriptwriter, theatre director, poet, cultural worker and activist, trade unionist, conductor of creative writing worksh...

Political activist, academic, journalist, playwright, poet

The musician and political activist Mzwakhe Mbuli has played an essential role in the musical culture of South Africa be...

Member of the Lenin Club, Founder member of the Non European Unity Movement and Author.

Journalist and author

Fine Artist and Poet

journalist, librarian, poet, writer, editor and painter

Activist, Zimbabwe liberation leader, writer

Author, community worker and mother.

Anti-apartheid activist, social worker, SSRC and SASM member, one of the student leaders of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, ba...

Member of the ANC, SACP and MK, author and columnist

President of the Natal Indian Congress, Student leader active in NUSAS, President of the then ‘non-European’ SRC at Nata...

Feminist writer and activist