Member of Parliament for Johannesburg North - Progressive and Democratic parties.

Baneshik was an influential theatre and film critic in South Africa.

David Webster, born 19/12/1945 in Luanshya, (Northern Rhodesia) Zambia, studied Social Anthropology at Rhodes University and was a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand at the time of his assassination at the hands of a pro-apartheid hit squad on 1 May 1989. He was a dedicated anti-apartheid activist and supporter of NUSAS, the Detainees' Parents Support Committee, and Five Freedoms Forum. His research covered the Va-Chopi of Mozambique, and the Tembe Thonga of Ingwavuma, and he also did studies on poverty, TB and migrant labour. (For detailed biographical notes see file A1)

Broadcaster with SABC, Springbok Radioand Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation.

Smith, 1787-1860 (Governor of Cape Colony 1847-1852).

Prof. Emeritus Anthony Traill was formerly head of the Dept of Linguistics at Wits.

Senior lecturer in Industrial Relations at the Graduate School of Business Administration, WITS University.

John Edward Matthews (1913-1998) was a member of the Communist Party of South Africa. He was convicted of sabotage and imprisoned.

Dr. WZ Conco, having graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1948 as a medical doctor, joined the African National Congress in 1950, where he became the national treasurer of its Youth League and played a prominent role at the Congress of the People in 1955. He was banned and restricted to the Ixopo district in Natal. After his release from the Treason Trial he moved to Swaziland and later to London, where he became involved in the work of the Luthuli Memorial Foundation.

Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg in 1932. She was educated at Roedean School in Johannesburg and in the 1950s studied at the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science in Scotland. After qualifying as a Domestic Science teacher she moved to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). She returned to South Africa eight years later and worked for the Social Welfare Department of the Johannesburg City Council as a home economics officer.

Sheena Duncan was the daughter of the late Jean Sinclair, a founder member of Black Sash, a womens organization working for human rights. She joined the Black Sash in 1963, working tirelessly against inhumane laws and the effects of the apartheid on ordinary South Africans, especially women. She held various positions within the organization including regional chairperson and editor of the Sash Magazine. In 1975 she became the national president of Black Sash taking over from her mother who had retired the same year from this position. She wrote several articles, booklets, pamphlets, speeches, especially on issues such as forced removals and pass laws. In 1970 Sheena Duncan joined the Anglican Churchs Challenge Group, a movement that sought to end racism within the church. She also represented the Anglican Church on the South African Council of Churches (SACC) Justice and Reconciliation Division. She became and still is the Honorary Life Vice President of the SACC as well as chair and patron of Gun-Free South Africa and of the Black Sash.

In 1986 she received the Liberal International Prize for Freedom for her outstanding contribution to human rights and political freedom. She has also been awarded honorary doctorates in Law by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990, the University of Cape Town in 1991 and the University of Natal in 1995. Sheena Duncan has had an outstanding career as a public figure involved in the struggle to promote social justice and human rights. She was a fervent activist for these causes. Sheena Duncan died in 2010.