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- Nelson Mandela,\u00a0former President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1993<\/em><\/li>\n
- Desmond Tutu,\u00a0General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1984<\/em><\/li>\n
- Walter Sisulu<\/li>\n
- Steve Biko,\u00a0anti-apartheid activist<\/em><\/li>\n
- Hector Pieterson,\u00a0came to represent the anger and tragedy of a day that changed the course of South African history, sparking months of clashes between police, schoolchildren and protesters<\/em><\/li>\n
- Nadine Gordimer,\u00a0recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature<\/em><\/li>\n
- FW de Klerk\u00a0–\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize Winner with Nelson Mandela, 1993<\/em><\/li>\n
- Navanethem Pillay,\u00a0UN High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/em><\/li>\n
- Judge Richard Goldstone,\u00a0former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda<\/em><\/li>\n
- Dr. Liam Pedersen,\u00a0former NASA robotics researcher who was instrumental in creating the Mars rover as part of his work on future planetary exploration<\/em><\/li>\n
- Elon Musk,\u00a0CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO\/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)<\/em><\/li>\n
- Dr. Mankekolo Mahlangu-Ngcobo,\u00a0Consultant for The Johns Hopkins Health Systems-Community Outreach. She was a consultant with the US Public Health Service, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and conducted an evaluation of a Healthy Start Program in Boston. Dr. Mahlangu-Ngcobo is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) and an author of nine books.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Penelope Andrews\u00a0–\u00a0lawyer<\/em><\/li>\n
- Miriam Makeba, a singer known as Mama Africa and the Empress of African song<\/em><\/li>\n
- Lucky Dube,\u00a0alongside Bob Marley, was one of the great reggae artists, singing about social problems<\/em><\/li>\n
- Hugh Masekela,\u00a0South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer<\/em><\/li>\n
- Charlize Theron,\u00a0The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) invests in African youth to keep themselves safe from HIV\/AIDS. CTAOP was created in 2007 by the Academy Award-winning actress and UN Messenger of Peace, with the hope of making a difference in fighting HIV in South Africa. Although the geographic scope of CTAOP is Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa has remained the primary area of focus.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Arnold Vosloo,\u00a0Actor<\/em><\/li>\n
- Stelio Savante,\u00a0Actor<\/em><\/li>\n
- Siyabulela Xuza,\u00a0Scientist<\/em><\/li>\n
- David Tlale,\u00a0Fashion Designer<\/em><\/li>\n
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Grammy Award-Winning Choir<\/em><\/li>\n
- Soweto Gospel Choir<\/li>\n
- Lebo M\u00a0–\u00a0South African singer and songwriter<\/em><\/li>\n
- Tsidii Le Loka\u00a0–\u00a0Vocalist, Actor, Composer, Speaker<\/em><\/li>\n
- Mpho Gift Ngoepe,\u00a0Major League Baseball infielder<\/em><\/li>\n
- Bruce Fordyce,\u00a0Marathoner<\/em>–\u00a0Originally published in\u00a0<\/em>UltraRunning Magazine,\u00a0May\/June 2012, and reproduced with permission.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Alf Kumalo,\u00a0one of South Africa\u2019s leading documentary photographers<\/em><\/li>\n
- Jo\u00e3o Silva,\u00a0one of the documentary photographers who covered the violent birth pangs of democratic South Africa<\/em><\/li>\n
- Greg Marinovich,\u00a0Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer doing conflict, documentary and news photography around the globe.<\/em><\/li>\n
- Agnes Matlebjane\u00a0–\u00a0Author,\u00a0Footsteps- My Life As An Au Pair, (also available at\u00a0XLibris), Exchange Student at Kean University<\/em><\/li>\n
- Warren Adams,\u00a0Ballet dancer, and choreographer<\/em><\/li>\n
- Born in the RSA – and big in the USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t - Desmond Tutu,\u00a0General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1984<\/em><\/li>\n