Fiona Macleod is an award-winning journalist, who worked as the Environmental reporter working for the newspaper Mail & Guardian, South Africa. She also published and edited various environmental magazines.

Abram ("Bram") Fischer was a leading Afrikaner advocate, defence lawyer in the 1956 Treason trial and the 1964 Rivonia trial, a member of the South African Communist Party and the Congress of Democrats.

House of Assembly, Cape Town

Dr Ephraim L. Fisher, The United Party's chief spokesman on health and M. P. for Rosettenville, born in Johannesburg in 1906, educated at King Edward VII College and received his medical training at Witwatersrand University and St. Bartholomews Hospital, London. He has lived and worked in the southern suburbs since then. He was a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council from 1949-1958 and became chief whip of the U. P. Caucus. He won the Rosettenville parliamentary seat in 1958 and since then has always championed the under-privileged.

His special political interests include hospitalization and mine worker education. In the economic sphere he has always arrived at the banishment of fear of oppression and injustice in the minds of all South African citizens.

He has frequently called for a revision of the public health services and advocated the incorporation of a new scheme for pensions for the aged and infirm. One of his most significant contributions in politics was getting a select committee on hospitalization in the Transvaal.

Through his efforts too that Provincial Council agreed to a Select Committee on horse-racing.

In his younger days he played cricket and football for his university and hospital. He married Miss Anne Misell and had a daughter, Mary.

Franz Auerbach was born into the Jewish family in Germany and came to South Africa with his parents in 1937. Franz was helping his family to raise some income by teaching English to other immigrants. He left school at the end of Std. 8 and joined a commercial company as an account clerk, while studying further part-time. He passed his Matric by attending night classes at the Technical College and earned a BA degree by correspondence. He later acquired three further degrees including a PhD from the University of Natal. Franz Auerbach comes from the Jewish background and religion, which had a formative influence on his life.

In South Africa he was associated with Jewish institutions and organizations, like African Yad Vashem Foundation and South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Most of his life he spent in Education and was deeply committed to the teaching profession. He taught in African Night Schools for over 20 years. Having a strong sense of Jewish history he called himself a Jewish Humanist. Auerbach was sensitive to the issue of racial discrimination and anti-Semitism under Apartheid in South Africa. He was strongly committed and believed in the importance of education, which can improve life of the society. He promoted Education for Peace, where teaching attitudes and values are extremely important.

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

Gavin Hartford began his professional career at the South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED), an educational NGO. In the mid-eighties he worked for the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union (NAAWU) and later the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), becoming a National Organizer and negotiator.

Stephen Gelb holds a PhD in Economics, with experience in research and policy in South Africa. He was an adviser to President Mbeki and his government, on macroeconomic policy and public expenditure and on international investment and trade policy.

Stephen Gelb's involvement included amongst others: working with COSATU from the mid-80s up to 1990 as the founder of the Economic Trends group of advisors; working with the ANC and its newly established Department of Economic Policy after its unbanning in the early 1990s, as well as the MERG process during the transitional period; working with the new government after 1994, including the GEAR process and projects for the Presidency relating to the arms deal affordability report and the establishment of NEPAD.