Bob Connolly was a US born journalist who came to South Africa in 1937, where he became a famous cartoonist. His drawings were set against the Apartheid era political landscape of South Africa, and appeared on the front pages of the Rand Daily Mail for almost two decades.

English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian culture.

Sarah Anne Le Mesurier was the widow of James Morley and wife of Augustus Smith Le Mesurier, who was Captain in the Bombay Native Infantry. She died on the 24 April 1844 of cholera in Colaba, India.

London Missionary Society missionary, Deputy Commissioner of Bechuanaland and advocate of British imperial rule in Africa

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.

Sylvester Stein was one of the first editors of the DRUM magazine from 1955 to 1958.

Mweli Skota was a member of the Executive and General Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also a business man, religious leader and publisher. Skota was the editor of the newspaper "Abantu-Batho", founder and editor of "African Shield" and he edited and compiled the "The African Yearly Register".