Alan Paton was a South African author and anti-Apartheid activist. He is probably most famous as the author of the novel "Cry, the beloved country" which he wrote in 1946.

Harold Jack Simons, sociologist and politician, and his wife, Ray Alexander Simons, were both active members of the Communist party and the African National Congress.

Chief Albert Lutuli, a teacher and activist, became the President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 1952, which he remained until his death in 1967. He was the first African to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960.

James Lycett had been an “influential Freemason, businessman, prospector, hotelier (?) and amateur actor and manager.” In 1855, he again performed with a theatre company called the “Amateurs of Cape Town, 1848-1857.

Douglas Calderwood was born in Johannesburg, the son of DY Calderwood, mine manager of the New Kleinfontein Gold Mining Company. Educated at King Edward VII School. His architectural studies were done at the University of the Witwatersrand. Thereafter he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a foreign student’s scholarship. On his return he was appointed Chief Research Officer, National Building Research Institute (NBRI) of the SA Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), whereafter he became Head of the Architectural Division.
Calderwood’s doctoral thesis was published in 1953 as “Native Housing in South Africa” with funding from the CSIR. This focussed on the prevailing issue at that time: how to implement the new (1948) Nationalist government's post-Second World War township building programme and minimise costs. In the service of the CSIR, as a state-funded instrument for researching of the so-called ‘Native Housing problem’, Calderwood was charged with drawing up national standards for state funded housing while minimising cost. In his commendation of Calderwood's thesis, William Holford, then Professor of Town Planning at the University of London, describes the work as 'a breath of fresh air' because it shows that 'the technical, the social and the economics of housing must be looked at together'. Calderwood designed three housing types designated NE 51/6, NE 51/8 and NE 51/9 (where acronym ‘NE ’is non-European dated 1951 types 6, 7 and 9). While Calderwood stressed that these were intended as a demonstration of the outcome to the rational design process, they were nevertheless taken up by government and housing authorities to be reproduced in the thousands across South African for three decades from the 1950s. [Commentary précised from Haarhoff, 2010 (See Appropriating Modernism: Apartheid and the South African township.)]
Calderwood served as President of the Transvaal Provincial Institute of Architects for the term 1957/58. Calderwood was working at the National Building Research Institute when the University of the Witwatersrand invited him to manage the new Building Science course there in 1967. Calderwood overhauled the curriculum and improved its relevance. It was his subject, industrial organisation and management, rooted in Calderwood's father's mine management techniques, that characterized the whole building degree. In the course the importance of human relations in the building industry - welfare, incentives, conflict management, even body language, were taught.
He married Pauline Pearson of Port Elizabeth in 1949 by who he had two sons.

Regina Twala was South African writer of books, columns, articles and letters. She was also a feminist activist, a teacher, researcher evangelist and political activist in Swaziland (eSwatini). She studied at the Jan Hofmeyer School of Social Work and later completed a BA degree in Social Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. In her second marriage she was married to Dan Twala, and they had one child named Vusi who is deceased but had a daughter Pinokie.

Imtiaz Cajee is the nephew of Ahmed Timol, who died in Security Police detention in 1971.

Author of 'The South African Conspiracy, or the aims of Afrikanerdom', Chairman of the S.A. Section of the International Bellamy League, Chairman of the Native Affairs Society, Secretary of the Johannesburg Theosophical Society

Compiler of Annals of Natal; Resident Magistrate 1859, Colonial Treasurer 1876 and Judge of the Native High Court 1879

British activist living in South Africa since the 1980s, he initially worked for the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC in London and later in South Africa. From the 1990s onwards he then became instrumental and held various position in the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), the AIDS Law Project (ALP), the Treatment Action Campaign and Section 27.

He also completed a Masters degree in African literature at Wits and lectured and wrote on the influences of Shakespeare on African writing and politics in South Africa.

Mark Heywood has written extensively on HIV, human rights and the law, including co-editing the AIDS and the Law Resource Manual and Health & Democracy: A guide to human rights, health law and policy in post-Apartheid South Africa. He has been part of the legal teams of the AIDS Law Project and the Treatment Action Campaign that have been involved in all the major litigation around HIV and human rights in South Africa.