Heroes and Heroines

Alan Stewart Paton (January 11, 1903-April 1988) was a prominent South African novelist, a spokesperson for prison reform, and a founding member of the Liberal...

Daniel Francois Malan (May 22, 1874- February 7, 1959), statesman, clergyman, and journalist, formed South Africa’s first Afrikaner government, of which he was prime minister...

Enoch Josiah Mgijima (1868-May 3, 1928) was the leader of the Israelites, a religious sect involved in the bloody clash with a contingent of South...

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (May 22, 1880-November 25. 1957) was the founder and head of a conglomerate of financial, industrial and mining interests in southern Africa...

Albert Nzula was born at Rouxville, a small town in the Orange Free State. His schooling began at Bensonvale in Herschel and continued at Lovedale,...

Tshekedi Khama (September 17, 1905-June 10, 1959), a man bound by tribal tradition was nevertheless a great nationalist who worked tirelessly to advance the people...

Cyril Bunting Rogers-Wright (1905-1971) was a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, and from the 1950s played a leading part in...

Lukas Johannes Meyer (Meijer) “The Lion of Vryheid,” (November 19, 1846-August 8, 1902) was a general, president of the Volksraad, and prominent military and political...

Benjamin Nxumalo (1874-1942) was King Sobhuza II’s uncle and counselor and one of the most educated Swazis of his time. Nxumalo was born in the Intombe...

Reverend Jonas A. Ntsiko (c1860-1915) was a poet, a hymn composer and a catechist who became famous as a literary commentator in the pages of...