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Dr Mohammed Shukri Effendi was the first person of colour to graduate as a medical doctor from the University of Cape To...

Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the...

Medical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social Reform Society, Chair of the Mad...

Cricketer, Medical Doctor and South African Administrator of the United Cricket Board.

Medical doctor, AAC Treasurer, President of the African National Congress from 1949 to 1952.

ANC President, a teacher and medical doctor.

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

Medical practitioner, Executive member of the Franchise Action Council and Vice-President of the Cape Indian Assembly

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

Medical doctor, community activist and author.

Geologist. Discovered tin near Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Dr Merensky's most important discoveries were&...

The first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa, founder member of the Young Women’s Christian Ass...

Professor, neurologist, psychiatrist, human rights activist, led the medical ethics inquiry into the death of Steve Biko...

Medical doctor, politician and leader of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) and chairman of Anglo-American mining compa...

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

First South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon, pioneered research in the study of toxic plants, co-founded the ...

Medical doctor, Chairperson of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Transvaal anti...

Political activist, Black business pioneer, community leader and altruistic medical practitioner

first women professor and Head of Department at then Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal) medical scho...

Mathematician, elected to the first executive committee of the ANC Youth League and later elected to the national execut...

Medical doctor, Vice President of the Natal Indian Congress and a pioneer in women's resistance

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

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

Medical doctor and surgeon who pioneered techniques of diagnosing suspected leprosy, worked with leprosy patients in var...

First Black qualified nurse in the Transvaal.

South Africa's first female heart surgeon

Physician, member of the African National Congress (ANC), Vice-president of the ANC Women's League in Natal  

South Africa’s first qualified veterinarian

Exiled ANC leader 1962-1990, Medical Doctor, Deputy Justice Minister 1994-1998, Health Minister 1999-2008

Member of the ANC and MK and medical doctor

Member of the SRC at University of Zululand, member of SASO, National Organiser BPC, President of AZAPO, Chairperson of ...

First female Ophthamologist in South Africa

Zulumathabo Zulu is a software engineer and published author of more than eight books and hundreds of articles including...

Discovered the Taung child skull fossil, the first early hominid fossil.

Industrial Chemist, early childhood education practioner, Director of the Chatsworth Early Learning Centre, member of th...

Political activist, dentist and political detainee.

Chair of NUSAS, medical doctor, palaeo-anthropologist, lecturer, author, geneticist, scientist, Professor Emeritus of An...

Pharmacist and Honorary Life President of the South African Optometeric Association

Scientist, invovled in desiging first CAT-Scan machine and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Pysiology or Medicine