List of Alumni of The University of Cape Town - Law and Government

Law and Government

  • Sheila Camerer, a South African politician, former Deputy Minister of Justice and long-serving Member of Parliament of the main opposition the Democratic Alliance. Now ambassador to Bulgaria. She completed a Bachelor of Law degree at UCT in 1964.
  • Ryan Coetzee, South African politician, former CEO of the Democratic Alliance and Shadow Minister of Economic Development. Now chief strategist for Western Cape premier Helen Zille. Graduated from UCT in 1994.
  • Kate O'Regan, a former Constitutional Court of South Africa judge.
  • Dullah Omar, a South African anti-Apartheid activist, lawyer, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a minister in the South African cabinet from 1994 until his death.
  • Justice Albie Sachs, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
  • James Selfe, long-serving Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, currently chairperson of the party's federal council. Holds a Master's degree from UCT.
  • Donald Woods, a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist.
  • Percy Yutar, South Africa’s first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial.
  • Ian Neilson, Executive Deputy Mayor of Cape Town

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