Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 - 19 July 1965) (OIS), was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Jonker has reached iconic status in South Africa and is often called the South African Sylvia Plath, owing to the intensity of her work and the tragic course of her turbulent life. Her work has also been compared to that of Anne Sexton.

Herman Charles Bosman (1905 - October 14 1951) was a South African writer and journalist who became famous for capturing the rhythms of backveld Afrikaans speech even though he wrote in English. He is widely regarded as the greatest short story writer to come out of South Africa. Many of his stories have a sting in the tail. He was born at Kuilsrivier, near Cape Town.

Uys Krige (christened Mattheus Uys Krige) (4 February 1910 - 10 August 1987) was a South African writer, poet, playwright, translator, rugby player, war correspondent and romantic. He was born in Bontebokskloof (near Swellendam) in the Cape Province. He was educated at the University of Stellenbosch. From 1931 to 1935 he lived in France and Spain, where he learned to speak both languages fluently. Krige also played rugby for a club in Toulon in the south of France.

Paul J. Roos (1878 - 19??) (also known as "Oom Polla" - Afrikaans for "Uncle Polla") was the first South African Springbok rugby captain and led the first South African rugby union team to tour overseas - to Britain in 1906. He was born in the South African town of Stellenbosch and also completed his education there. It was during this tour that the South African national rugby union team's nickname, "Springboks", was first used.

Daniel Streicher Badenhorst (6 December 1967 -) (better known as Daantjie Badenhorst or even Daantjie Dinamiet (Daantjie Dynamite) is South Africa's most well-known person living with Asperger's syndrome. He shot to fame after winning Series 24 of South Africa's long-running Afrikaans language television musical quiz show, Noot vir Noot. He later also won the 2005 edition of Flinkdink, …

John van Melle (February 11, 1887 - November 8, 1953) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author. His real name was Johannes van Melle. Van Melle arrived in South Africa in 1906, and after a short sojourn in the Netherlands East Indies, settled in South Africa permanently in 1913. He worked as a teacher in many rural schools and soon started to publish in both Dutch and the newly emerging Afrikaans language. Van Melle's best known work is "Bart Nel", …

Louw Wepener (d. 1856) was a military leader ("kommandant" in Afrikaans) in the Orange Free State who was killed during the Second Orange Free State-Basuto War at Thaba Bosiu, while trying to storm the mountain stronghold of Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Basotho nation. The town of Wepener (founded 1867) and Regiment Louw Wepener (since disbanded) were named after him.

Basetsana Julia Kumalo (born Basetsana Julia Makgalemele) is a former Miss South Africa and is currently a television presenter and businesswoman. She first gained fame in 1994 when she won the Miss South Africa competition - the second black woman to achieve this in the formerly all-white beauty pageant. She was the first runner-up in the subsequent Miss World competition. During her reign she became a presenter on "Top Billing", …

Marcia Joan Brown (born July 13, 1918 in Rochester, New York) is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. Until 2007 she was the only three time winner of the Caldecott Medal, the winner of 1977 Regina Medal, a six-time recipent of the Caldecott Honor, and the winner of the 1992 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. Many of her titles have been produced in other languages, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish and Xhosa-Bantu.

Wilhelm Otto (WO) Kühne was an award-winning author of children's literature and editor of "Die Jongspan" and "Die Burger" newspapers in Cape Town, South Africa. He was one of the first children's authors in the Afrikaans language. The most notable of his books are the "Huppelkind" series and "Die wonderbaarlike motor van Barnabas Bombas" (1981).

Makhanda (d. 1820) (also known as "Nxele" in Xhosa or "Links" in Afrikaans, both words meaning "left-handed") was a Xhosa warrior-prophet. He renounced his Christian upbringing and became a strong advocate for returning to Xhosa tradition among the Ndlambe clan of the Xhosa. During the frontier war of 1818 - 1819, he led an unsuccessful attack by Xhosa forces on Grahamstown.

Stella Blakemore (1906 - 1991) was a popular South African author of Afrikaans youth novels. Blakemore was born in a tent near Lindley in the Free State, but went to school in Natal. Her mother was a music teacher of Boer descent and her father was Captain Percy Blakemore, an officer in the British Army. However, Blakemore left his wife and child four years later to become a professional card player.

Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes (1919-1990), was a South African linguist and an expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages. Ernst Westphal was born at Khalava in Vendaland, the son of German Lutheran missionary parents; already as a child he was fluent in German, English, Afrikaans and Venda. He studied Zulu and Southern Sotho under Clement Martyn Doke at the University of Witwatersrand and, after graduating in 1942, was a Lecturer there 1942-1947.

Jacobus Petrus du Randt, better known as Os du Randt (born 8 September 1972 in Elliot, South Africa), is a South African rugby player who plays as a loosehead prop for the Springboks, Central Cheetahs (Super 14), and Free State Cheetahs (Currie Cup). Du Randt played for the Cats in Super 12, but moved to the new Central Cheetahs Super 14 franchise after the Free State Cheetahs were moved from the Cats franchise area.