Arts & Humanities

Celebrated musician, singer, composer and trumpet player

Painter

South African photographer and artist

Author, journalist

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

South African singer and human rights campaigner, Makeba was the first vocalist to put African music onto the internatio...

Writer, member of the SACP, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the 19...

Opera singer and Social Worker

Major literary figure, author, poet and dramatist, war correspondent in WWII and anti-government activist 

Footballer and actor

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

Journalist and author

Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mande...

South African photographer, politcal detainee and banned person

Painter

Artist, educator, television technician

South African jazz pianist, composer and journalist.

Poet, writer and trade unionist      

Writer, poet, dramatist and  political activist

Educationist, first African Chancellor of the University of the North and Author.

Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera...

Advocate,Human Rights lawyer, Senior Counsel at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg in the Constitutional Un...

Social historian, lecturer, researcher and writer

South African pop singer

Athlete 

Cartoonist and activist

 Former Pretoria Callies and Orlando Pirates maestro of the early 1970s

Journalist and poet

Teacher, lecturer, banned person, author, advocate of multilingualism in post-apartheid South Africa, a strong proponent...

Natal Indian Congress, United Democratic Front and African National Congress activist, medical doctor, academic, researc...

Novelist and poet

Artist

Professor Landau is an historian of culture and politics in southern Africa.

Poet

Journalist, author, social activist, teacher, educator, broadcaster, political prisoner, banned person, exile, member of...

Artist, Poet and activist, member of the African National Congress (ANC); the South African Communist Party (SACP) and a...

Stage, film, and television actress

Poet, writer, performance artist, activist, founder member of Bush Poets, the Afrikaans Writers Association (Afrikaanse ...

The first photojournalist to expose to the world the stark realities of life under the Apartheid regime

Artist