- Steve Biko, non-violent anti-apartheid activist
- Colin Bundy, Warden, Green College, Oxford; Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of London
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party
- Phillip Clancey, leading expert on South African ornithology
- Sheila Cussons, poet
- Lev David, writer, radio producer/presenter and media consultant
- Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Foreign Affairs in South Africa
- Adrian Furnham, organizational and applied psychologist and management expert
- Mazisi Kunene, poet
- Douglas Livingstone, contemporary poet
- Lara Logan, television journalist for CBS News
- Colin Moss, actor
- Fatima Meer, writer, academic and anti-apartheid activist
- Frank Mdlalose, first premier of KwaZulu-Natal
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- D.J. Opperman, Afrikaans poet
- David Papineau, academic philosopher
- Alan Paton, author, Cry, The Beloved Country
- Pat Pillai, presenter e.tv News
- Mamphela Ramphele, academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
- Sydney Skaife, entomologist, naturalist and conservationist
- William Smith, television mathematics and science teacher
- John van de Ruit, novelist, actor, playwright and producer
- Trevor Wadley, electrical engineer and inventor of the Wadley Loop
- Alan Whiteside, AIDS researcher and author
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