Arts & Humanities

South African painter,  ceramicist, art teacher and director of The Arts for All Centre.

Born on the Cape Flats in the apartheid era, Kenneth grew up at a time of political ferment, forced removals and resista...

Artist, educator

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

Photographer

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...

Minister of the Congregational Church, President of the South African Native Convention, he led a deputation to London t...

Doctor, teacher, political activist, member of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC), reci...

Author, columnist, journalist, recipient of the European Union Literary Award, Multilingualism Award, Humanities and Soc...

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

Composer, linguist, teacher, professor, helped create the new South African national anthem, produced first opera by a B...

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

 Musician, awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for his excellent achievement in the field of music and his contribu...

Writer

Prominent activist in the struggle against racial segregation in competitive sports during apartheid

Artist

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

A veteran of the South African liberation struggle, Treason Trialist, long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island a...

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

A Kenyan born academic, author and social activist 

Documentary photographer

Member of the ANC, helped draft the ANC's Code of Conduct and statutes, member of the Constitutional Committee and Natio...

South African photographer, member of Afrapix collective, musician

photographer, photojournalist

Jazz Artist, Composer, Musical Director

Singer, performer, Co-Director at Mzanzi Cultural Industries 

Artist, industrial designer, architect, member of MK, political prisoner and lecturer 

Teacher, member of the Anti-CAD Movement and the Non European Unity Movement (NEUM) and President of the New Unity Movem...

Medical doctor, member of the NEUM, Chairperson of the Durban APDUSA branch, banned person, political prisoner and exile...

Artist

Jazz singer

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

Commonwealth and African High Jump Record Holder, recipient of the National order for excellence in sports

Trade Unionist, Garment Worker’s Union, Playright

Artist and underground ANC activist

Artist, founding member of the Simon van der Stel Foundation and a trustee and life president of the Friends of the Joha...