Literature

Xhosa poet

Scholar, author, literary historian

South african freedom fighter,activist,actor,story teller,poet,playwright, director and author

Playwright, poet, theatre director, broadcaster, arts administrator, Pan-African activist, founding member of AWA, MAWAF...

Renowned traditional healer, author, artist and philosopher.

Poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile, member of the African National Congress

Short Story Writer, Art Editor, Lecturer, Director, Chairperson of the Afrikaans Writers' Guild

Writer, Playwright and Director

South African author, journalist and photojournalist of Scottish heritage

Founder of Drum magazine (1950) and The Golden City Post (1955), author, historian, poet and RAF pilot

Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s gener...

Director, actor and playwright

Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi was born on 6 January 1906 in Groutville, Natal. Vilakazi was appointed bantu languages assi...

Leading author and cultural activist and former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of a number of universities.

Author and key player in the 1978-79 Information Scandal

poet, novelist, editor

Teacher and celebrated novelist

Author, educator and first female principal of Huguenot University College

Journalist and writer

Journalist, writer, and actor

South African writer, academic and literary critic

South African author, writer for Drum magazine in the 1950s, literary critic and teacher

British writer and journalist, editor of Drum magazine in Johannesburg during the 1950s

Writer, editor of Drum magazine from 1955- 8 and publisher

South African writer.

President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), political detainee, educator, poet and writer.

author, editor, conscientious objector, President of National Union of South African Students, national organiser of the...

Founder member of NUSAS and the Liberal Party, member of the Editorial Board of Reality, founder member of the Institute...

Playwright and political activist

Political detainee, academic, author, minister of religion, theologian, thinker, President of the South African Council ...

poet, teacher, lexicographer, recipient of Olive Schreiner Prize, recipient of South African Lifetime Achievement Litera...

Foremost historian of Cape slavery, Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New ...

Trade unionist, political activist and writer

Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end o...

Acclaimed linguist, scholar, award winning writer of short stories and poetry, human rights activist and community leade...

Author, activist, civil servant, teacher, television producer

Farm hand, lithographer, graphic artist, photographer, author and Associate of the Royal Photographic Society

Poet and Novelist

A leading academic, writer, philosopher and intellectual, trustee of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, chair of Artscape (Cape...

A south african publisher