People

Ohm Collins Chabane: Member of the African National Congress (ANC) underground, prisoner on Robben Island, previous MEC for Limpopo’s Economic Development, Environment and Tourism, current Minister in the Presidency and musician.

Steve Biko: A Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) leader, South Africa’s most influential and radical student leader in the 1970s and a law student at the time of his death. He became a martyr of the Freedom Struggle and posed one of the strongest challenges to the apartheid structure in the country.

Peter Jones: Activist and member of the Black People's Convention he was arrested with Steve Biko in 1977.

Mono Badela: Eastern Cape Journalist, particularly known for his journalism that helped to put major trade unions, along with the PE Black Civic Organisation (Pebco) and the Congress of SA Students (Cosas), on the national political map (1970s).

Johannes Jacobus Degenaar (1926 - ): Philosopher and Lecturer. Degenaar broke new ground in the rigid and oppressive academic ethos of the University in the 1950s, when he began to lecture on the existential philosophers Kierkegaard, Camus and Heidegger. Inspired by the prison writings of Bonhoeffer, the philosopher, Christian and Nazi death camp victim.

Anne (Helen) Petrie (1933 - 2006): South African Painter. On her return to South Africa, she began painting her first oils, and with tuition soon began to lay the foundation of her own, distinctive style. However, Petrie felt that the taste of the small art-public was extremely backward at the time, and that there were too few discerning collectors and buyers in South Africa.

Malcolm Payne (1946 - ): Artist. Payne has attained status as an influential South African artist, and has won several awards. These include First Prize at New Signatures Competition of the South African Association of Arts in Pretoria in 1968

Ingrid Jonker: Jonker was an active member of Die Sestigers, a group of anti-establishment writers and poets, which included Breyten Breytenbach, Andre Brink, Adam Small and Bartho Smit, who had taken it upon themselves to challenge the conservative literary norms of the time.

Milwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba: Pemba’s art was his passion, yet art was not a viable career for a young black man in the early part of the 20th Century, and Pemba studied teaching and took up a position at the Wesleyan Mission School in King William’s Town in 1935.