Politics and Public Service
- Nelson Mandela, the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections.
- Michael Bear, Lord Mayor of London 2010/11.
- Dennis Brutus, former political activist and poet.
- Ruth First, anti-apartheid activist and scholar.
- Bernard Friedman senior lecturer in Otolaryngology and founder of the Progressive Party (South Africa).
- Natan Gamedze, Swazi Prince, Supreme Court Translator and Orthodox Rabbi.
- Adrian Guelke, political scientist
- Tshilidzi Marwala, academic, businessman and political theorist
- Jan Hofmeyr, politician.
- Barbara Hogan, Minister of Public Enterprises in the Cabinet of South Africa and former Minister of Health
- Joel Joffe, human rights lawyer who represented Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial.
- Ahmed Kathrada, politician, anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.
- Teresa Heinz Kerry, philanthropist and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry.
- Tony Leon, politician and former leader of the Democratic Alliance.
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela.
- Eduardo Mondlane, the father of Mozambican independence.
- Connie Mulder, former politician.
- Mamphela Ramphele, academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist.
- Harry Schwarz, lawyer, politician, ambassador to United States and anti-apartheid leader
- Joe Slovo, Communist politician, long time leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and leading member of the African National Congress.
- Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid activist and politician.
- Rupert Taylor, political scientist
- Lucien van der Walt, sociologist and co-author, along with Michael Schmidt, of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1).
- David Webster, social anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist.
- Helen Zille, Leader of the Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
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