List of Alumni of The University of Cape Town - Humanities

Humanities

• Bobby Godsell, Masters of Arts, later CEO of AngloGold Ashanti and Chairman of Eskom.
• John Comaroff, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago
• Roger Ebert, film critic, graduated with an English degree as part of a Rotary International program.
• Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, later deputy prime minister of South Africa, obtained an M.A. at the age of 17.
• Professor Emeritus J. M. Coetzee (Literature, 2003)
• Johannes de Villiers Graaff, is a noted professor of welfare economics and economist.
• Adrian Guelke, Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast
• Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, New Testament scholar, Professor at Westminster Theological Seminary
• Edward Neville Isdell, former CEO of the Coca-Cola Company
• David Lewis-Williams, is Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art.
• Gwen Lister, South African born Namibian journalist, anti-apartheid activist and founder of The Namibian
• Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet, playwright and scholar.
• Steven Markovitz, award-winning film and television producer.
• André du Pisani, political scientist and professor at University of Namibia.
• Mamphela Ramphele, a Managing Director of the World Bank and formerly the Vice-Chancellor of UCT.
• Isaac Schapera, was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the anthropology of South African tribesmen.
• Robert Carl-Heinz Shell, is a renowned South African author and professor of African Studies.
• Andries Treurnicht, was the founder and the leader of the Conservative Party in South Africa.
• Gail Kelly, CEO of Westpac and 8th most influential woman in the world, according to Forbes magazine.
• Mary Watson, 2006 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
• Jacques Rousseau, secular activist and social commentator.