Helen Suzman, born Helen Gavronsky (7 November 1917 in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa), was an anti-apartheid activist and politician. She studied as an economist and statistician at Witwatersrand University. Suzman was the daughter of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants.
She married Dr. Moses Suzman when she was 20, and had two daughters with him before returning to university as [...]
Graça Machel, DBE (born Graça Simbine on 17th October 1945 in Incadine, Gaza Province, Mozambique) is the wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela and the widow of the late Mozambican president Samora Machel, who died in a plane crash over South Africa in 1986. She is the only woman to have been married [...]
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (b. Witbank, South Africa, April 4, 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He began singing and playing piano as a child. At age 14, after seeing the film Young Man With a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas portrays American jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke), he took up playing [...]
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected and ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa [...]
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first African in space. He is now best known for his leadership of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.Shuttleworth was born in Welkom, Free State, South Africa.
After going to school at Diocesan College, Shuttleworth obtained a Business [...]
