Johnny Clegg
As a young anthropology lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Clegg, with musical partner Sipho Mchunu, explored mixing Western and Zulu music. Thus was born Juluka.
Although together Juluka and Savuka (without Mchunu) have sold over 5 million albums, they started small, playing to migrant miners in labour hostels around Jozi and at student concerts. The first Juluka album, Universal Men, told the story of contract gold miners who lived with one foot in urban mining and the other in their rural homelands.
The song 'Asimbonanga', about Mandela and other struggle heroes, has been performed at all the Mandela 46664 concerts in South Africa and Norway, while 'Impi' is the battle cry of the Springbok rugby team.
Helen Suzman
To the Nationalist Government, she was a devil thorn in their bloated side. This demure dame from upper-crust Houghton kept a seat warm in Parliament, first for the United Party and then for the Progressive Party, in various embodiments, from 1953 until her retirement in 1991. Suzman then took up the anti-apartheid cudgel as president of the South African Institute of Race Relations.
She was one of the longest-serving MPs ever, for much of the time the only woman, as well as the only progressive one. Among the many awards she garnered were the Order of Meritorious Service from then-President Mandela and Dame of the British Empire (extremely rare for a foreigner). She died in 2009.
Sir Herbert Baker
Ridge Road in Johannesburg's Parktown suburb is known as the Randlord's Route. Here on the north-facing crest of the Witwatersrand, the fabulously wealthy built their mansions. The finest is Stone House, not the most ostentatious, but a Sir Herbert Baker showpiece.Enoch Sontonga
