Arts & Humanities

Visual Artist

Writer and journalist

Founder of the first Bantu-language newspaper in South Africa, political leader in the Cape and educator.

Academic and writer

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

Jazz musician and music educator

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

South African jazz bass guitarist

Academic, researcher

Singer

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

Photographer

International soccer player and former SA team member of Cosmos and Mamelodi Sundowns

Artist

Artist

Sidney Kumalo was an art instructor, sculptor and painter.

Documentary Photographer, Designer, Lecturer 

South African Artist and writer

Political prisoner, poet, journalist, and editor

Journalist and business manager of the New Age, member of the CPSA Central Committee, political prisoner and defendant i...

For his excellent contribution to the development of soccer in South Africa and leadership in the successful bid and hos...

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

Author and poet

Photographer, filmmaker and member of Afrapix

Photographer

Photographer, Photojournalist

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...

Musician and Singer, exiled person

Narrator, Actress 

Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.

Fast Bowler for the South African National cricket  team

Teacher, Photographer

Poet, playwright and short story writer.

South African Sculptor and Woodcarver

Photographer and webmaster at South African History Online (SAHO)

Actress and teacher

Thinker, orator and writer

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

Member of the SACP and ANC, political detainee, lawyer, academic, sociologist, Nuffield Foundation Sociological Scholar ...

Witwatersrand University SRC member, political detainee, cartoonist, architect, university lecturer, member of the ANC, ...