Performing Arts

Born in Elsies River, Cape Town in 1961, Soli Philander was one of South Africa's most versatile entertainers - actor, c...

South African actress best known for her leading roles in the feature films Sarafina! (1992) and Yesterday (2004)

Activist, Filmmaker, TV-personality, businessman and son of the late Oliver Tambo.

Opera singer and Social Worker

Footballer and actor

Molefe Pheto is a South African musician and music teacher. He was an activist in the Black Consciousness Movement and f...

Writer, poet, dramatist and  political activist

South African pop singer

Stage, film, and television actress

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

Singer

Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the Lo...

Narrator, Actress 

Actress and teacher

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

Jazz singer

Trade Unionist, Garment Worker’s Union, Playright

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

Musician 

Singer and Actress

Musician

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

Singer

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

Actor, photographer, activist and member of Afrapix

Photographer

Writer, Playwright and Director

playwright, artist, cultural activist, lobbyist for safeguarding cultural heritage and cultural development, life member...

Director, actor and playwright

sculptor, drum-maker, performance artist

For her excellent contribution to music and putting South Africa on the international music map with her prolific musica...

Vocalist and South Africa's First Operatic prima donna

Photographer, performance artist and activist

Journalist, writer, and actor

Teacher, journalist, theatre director, political activist, Chair of the Springbok Legion

Priest, exiled person, post-Apartheid’s first Minister of Correctional Services, member of the ANC, IFP and the United D...

Pianist, singer and composer

Recording artist, taught singing, promoted the development of opera and was a member of PACTS’s opera committee and of t...

First Black beauty queen to represent South Africa at Miss World pageant, veteran actress and model 

Controversial theatre and television playwright