University of KwaZulu-Natal - Notable Alumni - University of Natal

University of Natal

  • Penelope Andrews, President and Dean, Albany Law School
  • Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist
  • Tommy Bedford, rugby player and anti-apartheid activist
  • Mark Bristow, Chief Executive of Randgold Resources
  • Colin Bundy, Warden, Green College, Oxford; Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of London
  • Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party
  • Sheila Cussons, poet
  • Lev David, writer, radio producer/presenter and media consultant
  • Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Foreign Affairs in South Africa
  • Adrian Furnham, organizational and applied psychologist and management expert
  • Craig Joubert, rugby referee
  • Mazisi Kunene, poet
  • David Lewis-Williams, professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand
  • Douglas Livingstone, contemporary poet
  • Lara Logan, television journalist for CBS News
  • Colin Moss, actor
  • Fatima Meer, writer, academic and anti-apartheid activist
  • Frank Mdlalose, first Premier of KwaZulu-Natal
  • D.J. Opperman, Afrikaans poet
  • David Papineau, academic philosopher
  • Alan Paton, author, Cry, The Beloved Country
  • Shaun Pollock, cricketer
  • Mamphela Ramphele, academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
  • Sydney Skaife, entomologist, naturalist and conservationist
  • William Smith, television mathematics and science teacher
  • John van de Ruit, novelist, actor, playwright and producer
  • Trevor Wadley, electrical engineer and inventor of the Wadley Loop
  • Alan Whiteside, AIDS researcher and author
  • Karthy Govender, commissioner for South African Human Rights Commission
  • Robert Masson, CFO of Second Cup

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