Arts
- Lionel Abrahams, novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher.
- Jillian Becker novelist. essayist, critic and expert on terrorism.
- Herman Charles Bosman, writer and journalist.
- Johnny Clegg, musician.
- Clement M. Doke, linguist.
- Clinton Fein, artist, activist
- Shannon Esra, actress.
- Elisabeth Eybers, poet.
- Ernest Fleischmann (1924–2010), impresario best known for his tenure at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
- Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize: Literature; 1991
- Aura Herzog, Israeli writer.
- Gavin Hood, writer, producer and director, best known for directing Tsotsi.
- Claire Johnston, singer best known as the face and voice of Mango Groove.
- William Kentridge, South African Artist.
- Aggrey Klaaste, journalist and editor, best known as the editor of the Sowetan from 1988 to 2002.
- Neil Lazarus, acclaimed literary theorist at the University of Warwick.
- Manfred Mann, Keyboard player for the bands Manfred Mann and Manfred Mann's Earth Band, among others.
- Judith Mason, renowned South African painter
- Phaswane Mpe, poet and novelist.
- Ezekiel Mphahlele, writer and academic.
- Lionel Ngakane, filmmaker.
- Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, Zulu poet, novelist, and educator. The first black South African to receive a Ph. D.
- Neil Lazarus, critic, essayist, Professor of 'postcolonial' literature, theory and culture at University of Warwick
- Ivan Vladislavic, South African novelist
- Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal, linguist and an expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages.
- Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.
- Tessa Ziegler, musician, classical guitarist
- Lucy Allais, Philosopher
- Ferial Haffajee, Editor of the City Press and former editor of The Mail and Guardian in South Africa
- Anton Harber, Founding editor of The Mail and Guardian, media commentator, author and founder of the Wits Journalism Programme.
- Marianne Fasler, South African designer and artist
- Eric Fernie, Art Historian
- Pieter-Dirk Uys, Entertainer, Aids activist
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“... the creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)