1. Lindiwe Sisulu (1954)

South African Politician

South African politician who is known for having served as the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, the Minister of Human Settlements, the Minister of Public Service and Administration, and...

2. Lindiwe Mazibuko (1980)

South African Politician

Politician, musician and academic who served as Parliamentary Leader of the opposition from 2011 to 2014. She resigned in order to undertake her master's at Harvard University. 

3. Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928)

South African Politician

Under the Apartheid regime, this South African politician served as Prime Minister of his country's KwaZulu territory. In the mid-1970s, he founded the Inkatha Freedom Party and co-authored the Mahlabatini...

4. Cyril Ramaphosa (1952)

South African Politician

South African politician who is recognized for having been elected president in 2018. He rose through the political landscape as an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader, and businessman.

5. Mbhazima Shilowa (1958)

South African Politician

South African politician who is known for having served as the 3rd Premier of Gauteng from 1999 until 2008. He is also known for having been a member of the...

6. Malusi Gigaba (1971)

South African Politician

In 2014, this African National Congress Party politician was appointed South African Minister of Home Affairs. While serving in the National Assembly (Parliament) of South Africa, he also held office...

7. Pravin Gordhan (1949)

South African Politician

After serving from 2009 until 2014 as South African Minister of Finance, this high-ranking African National Congress (ANC) party member took office as his country's Minister of Cooperative Governance and...

8. Bantu Holomisa (1955)

South African Politician

South African Member of Parliament who co-founded the United Democratic Movement. He was also Transkei's head of government from 1987 to 1994.

9. Naledi Pandor (1953)

South African Politician

After serving a five-year term as South African Minister of Education, this African National Congress Party politician held several other high-ranking governmental positions, including Minister of Home Affairs and Minister...

10. Jeff Radebe (1953)

South African Politician

This African National Congress party member took office in 2014 as South African Minister in the Presidency. Previously, he had served a five-year term as Minister of Justice and Constitutional...

11. Tokyo Sexwale (1953)

South African Politician

South African activist, politician and entrepreneur who served time in prison on Robben Island for his fight against apartheid. He later served as the Premier of Gauteng Province and the...

12. Mandla Mandela (1974)

South African Politician

Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela is the chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and the grandson of Nelson Mandela. He graduated from Rhodes University with a degree in Politics in 2007. His...

13. Nhlanhla Nene (1958)

South African Politician

Nhlanhla Musa Nene has been the deputy minister of finance in the Cabinet of South Africa since November 2008. He previously was the Chair of the South African Finance Portfolio...

14. Cheryl Carolus (1958)

South African Politician

Cheryl Carolus is a South African politician. She was born in Silvertown on the Cape Flats Cape Town. Carolus became involved in politics while still at school and became an...

15. Senzo Mchunu (1958)

South African Politician

Edward Senzo Mchunu is a South African politician who has served as Premier of KwaZulu-Natal since 22 August 2013. He is a member of the African National Congress and provincial...

16. Blade Nzimande (1958)

South African Politician

Dr. Bonginkosi Emmanuel Blade Nzimande is a South African politician who has been Minister for Higher Education and Training since 2009. He has been the General Secretary of the South...

17. Aaron Motsoaledi (1958)

South African Politician

Aaron Motsoaledi is the Minister of Health of South Africa. He was formerly an MEC in the Limpopo province for transport agriculture and environmentand education. Motsoaledi is a medical doctor...

18. Khume Ramulifho (1979)

South African Politician

Khume Ramulifho is a South African politician previously the Democratic Alliance youth leader and a present member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. Since October 2011 he is also the DA...

19. Ken Andrew (1943)

South African Politician

Ken Andrew is a South African politician. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Rondebosch Boys' High School as head boy. Andrew studied at the University of Cape...

20. Charles Robberts Swart (1894)

South African Politician

Charles Robberts Swart served as the last Governor-General of Union of South Africa from 1960 to 1961 and the first State President of the Republic of South Africa from 1961...

21. Mluleki George (1948)

South African Politician

Mluleki Editor George is the former deputy minister of defence of South Africa. He served as treasurer-general of the Congress of the People a South African political party formed by...

22. Frene Ginwala (1932)

South African Politician

Noshir Ginwala is a South African journalist and politician who was the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa from 1994 to 2004. Frene Ginwala is an Indian South...

23. Mmbara Hulisani Kevin (1979)

South African Politician

Mmbara Hulisani Kevin is the former President of PAYCO a youth wing of PAC in South Africa. Hulisani made news headlines when he took a defiant stance against the current...

24. Ben Ngubane (1941)

South African Politician

Ben Ngubane is a politician from South Africa. He held multiple positions in the post-apartheid government of the country. In particular he has been Premier of KwaZulu-Natal and minister of...

25. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819)

South African Politician

The son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was the first president of the South African Republic and also compiled the constitution of the Republic. After...

26. Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881)

South African Politician

Pixley ka Isaka Seme was a founder and President of the African National Congress. He was the first black South African lawyer.

27. Chris Liebenberg (1934)

South African Politician

Christo Ferro Liebenberg is a South African banker who was Minister for Finance of South Africa from 19 September 1994 to 4 April 1996 in the government of national unity...

28. Mac Maharaj (1935)

South African Politician

Sathyandranath Ragunanan Mac Maharaj is a South African politician affiliated with the African National Congress academic and businessman of Indian origin. He is the current official spokesperson of the President...

29. Pieter Jeremias Blignaut (1841)

South African Politician

Pieter Jeremias Blignaut was a South African civil servant Government Secretary of the Orange Free State and served twice as Acting State President first after the death of President Brand...

30. Amina Cachalia (1930)

South African Politician

Amina Cachalia OLB was a South African anti-Apartheid activist women's rights activist and politician. She was a longtime friend and ally of former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. Her...

31. Bisset Berry (1839)

South African Politician

Sir William Bisset Berry was a South African politician and the fourth Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cape Colony. Born in Aberdeen Scotland Bisset Berry came to the...

32. Cassel Mathale (1961)

South African Politician

Cassel Mathale was the premier of Limpopo in South Africa. succeeding Sello Moloto. He is the former provincial chairman of Limpopo for the African National Congress. He resigned as premier...

33. Vera Reitzer (Unknow)

South African Politician

Vera Reitzer was a Jewish holocaust survivor who later moved to South Africa and supported the apartheid regime. She joined Malan's Nationalist Party in 1950. Reitzer was born in Hungary...

34. Adriaan Vlok (1937)

South African Politician

Adriaan Johannes Vlok was Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid era. Facing increasingly-intense opposition and political unrest...

35. Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo (1925)

South African Politician

Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo was a South African politician. He served as the longest-standing secretary-general of the African National Congress. He occupied this position between 1969 and 1991. He was also...

36. Raymond Mhlaba (1920)

South African Politician

Raymond Mhlaba was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress. Mhlaba spent 25 years of his life in prison. Well known for being sentenced along with Nelson...

37. Ronnie Kasrils (1938)

South African Politician

Ronald Kasrils is a South African politician. He was Minister for Intelligence Services from 27 April 2004 to 25 September 2008. He was a member of the National Executive...

38. William Duncan Baxter (1868)

South African Politician

Duncan Baxter was the Mayor of Cape Town South Africa from 1907 to 1908. Baxter is the namesake of the Baxter Theatre Centre a performing arts complex in Rondebosch a...

39. Andries Stockenström (1792)

South African Politician

Sir Andries Stockenström 1st Baronet was lieutenant governor of British Kaffraria from 13 September 1836 to 9 August 1838. His efforts in restraining colonists from moving into Xhosa lands served...

40. Mathole Motshekga (1949)

South African Politician

Mathole Serofo Motshekga is a South African politician and lawyer. A member of South Africa's Parliament Motshekga holds a leadership position within the African National Congress. He was also the...

41. Andries Treurnicht (1921)

South African Politician

Andries Petrus Treurnicht was a South African politician Minister of Education during the Soweto Riots and for a short time leader of the National Party in Transvaal.

42. Fatima Hajaig (1938)

South African Politician

Hajaig is a South African politician with the ruling African National Congress. She is a member of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament from South Africa. She used to be chairperson...

43. Vause Raw (1921)

South African Politician

Vause Raw DMS was a South African opposition politician of the apartheid era. Born in Durban in 1921 he was a prominent member of the United Party from the 1940s...

44. Piet Koornhof (1925)

South African Politician

Pieter G. J. Koornhof was a South African politician. As an apartheid-era National Party cabinet minister he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B. J. Vorster and P. W....

45. Hernus Kriel (1941)

South African Politician

Hermanus Jacobus Kriel was the first Premier of the Western Cape province. He previously served as the Minister of Law and Order in the South African government under Frederik Willem...

46. Adam Kok III (1811)

South African Politician

Adam Kok III was a leader of the Griqua people in South Africa. The son of Adam Kok II he grew up and was educated in the town of Philippolis...

47. Sheila Camerer (1941)

South African Politician

Sheila Margaret Camerer is a South African politician and senior Member of Parliament of the main opposition Democratic Alliance. Although Camerer's father Robert Badenhorst-Durandt had been a Member of Parliament...

48. Billy Nair (1929)

South African Politician

Billy Nair was a South African politician a member of the National Assembly of South Africa an anti-apartheid activist and a political prisoner in Robben Island. Nair was a long-serving...

49. Clive Derby-Lewis (1936)

South African Politician

Clive John Derby-Lewis is a South African ex-politician who was involved first in the National Party and then while serving as a Member of Parliament in the Conservative Party. He...

50. Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs (1903)

South African Politician

Nicolaas Diederichs served as the third State President of South Africa from 1975 to 1978. An economist Diederichs obtained a doctorate from the University of Leiden. During the 1930s and...