Jacob Dlamini is a South African historian, author and journalist. He grew up under apartheid in a township outside Johannesburg. He is the author of various books and winner of the Alan Paton Award. He is presently Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University in the United States, and was previously political editor of the newspaper Business Day in South Africa.

Sr Priscilla Dlamini was the receipient of various awards for her work at the Hospice, amongst others "Community Builder of the Year" award by the Department of Social Welfare in 2001; "The woman of the year Finalist award" in Social Services by Shoprite Checkers; and she was nominated as "100 Top Women achiever in South Africa" in 2005.

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

Dr Gluckman was an independent forensic pathologist in South Africa. He gave evidence in numerous inquests and trials relating to political killings during the Apartheid era. Some of the cases for which he submitted postmortem reports are Steve Biko, Simon Mthimkhulu, Ahmed Timol, Neil Aggett, amongst many others.

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.

Stephanus Mukhesi Maimela Dzivhani was born c. 1888 at Sibasa in Chief Makwarela's area of the Northern Transvaal, of the Ngoma tribe. His mother was a princess of a royal family, his father was a headman. As a youth he was interested in musical instruments and soon picked up music and songs. His father bought him a xylophone to play at festivals.

He came into contact with Berlin missionaries through his brother and between 1907-1913 he trained at Botshabelo Training Institution in the violin, lessons on the organ and joined the college brass band. As a teacher he taught at the Lutheran Mission School, the first school in Sibasa. Classes were held under a tree, until Lali or Chief Mphaphuli agreed that a school building should be erected. It was here his songs markedly impressed the Superintendent and some were compiled in the Venda hymn books. Keenly interested in church matters, he translated most of the Lutheran hymn book into Venda, besides adding and composing numerous other hymns. As he started life as a teacher in the early years of this century, later becoming headmaster, he was used by chiefs in the area mainly Chief Mphaphuli, to mediate between the traditional authorities and the White government. He also had to keep records of court cases at the Chief's kraal.

In 1918 he went to King Williams Town to marry a teacher there - Selina Manyakan Yaka, a Xhosa. They had two boys and three girls. Ulrica, the eldest, took her B. A. degree at Fort Hare and became a teacher in Bulawayo. She had a son, Steven, who studied and want to Switzerland intending to take up medical science. Dzivhani's son, Herbert, who became blind, matriculated at Eerste River Blind School. He was killed in a car accident in Natal. The other surviving child, Bennett, matriculated and became a teacher.

Stephen Dzivhani himself became a lay preacher at the Lutheran Beuster Mission and opened up other schools in the Sibasa area, He worked for seven years without pay and became an agent for a commercial miller for the Otenda Mills at Sibasa under the Mealie Control Board.

Explorer and Rhodesian concessionaire

Edward Bushnan Rose, a British subject, remained in Johannesburg and Pretoria during the South African War (Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902) under permit from the British Government, and later recounts his experiences and gives an account of conditions in the Transvaal during the War.

Iain Edwards is South African historian with scholarly interests in oral history, historiography, and historical methods particularly as concerning life histories, public heritage, and history. In the early 1990s, he led the successful public campaign establishing the Kwa Muhle Museum in Durban and was a member of the African National Congress’ National Commission on Museums, Monuments and Heritage. Widely published, with key works including collaborating with Natoo Babenia, an early Umkhonto we Sizwe cadre and, for sixteen years, imprisoned on Robben, on his memoirs (1995); co-editing with Paul Maylam the first scholarly essays on African life in Durban (1996); editing the seminally important private political papers of Mewa Ramgobin, the long banned and house arrested Gandhian anti-apartheid and pro-democracy activist (2015); and, with Marc Epprecht, Working class homosexuality in South African history (2020) which includes his unique oral history interviews with the Izingqingili zaseMkhumbane. He was an historical expert on legal teams successfully representing previous African and Indian residents of Cato Manor Farm in Land Claims Court cases; was a special advisor for Civil Military Affairs to then Deputy Minister of Defence Ms Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge; and involved in the early stages of developing the historical narrative for the Freedom Park Heritage and Museum development in Pretoria. He has been a faculty member or fellow at universities in South Africa, Australia, Britain and the United States. He is currently researching South Africa’s post-1990 History Wars and related historical issues.