Vincent Maher

Vincent Maher

male, 34 years old
South African, Citizen journalism, Grahamstown, Mail & Guardian Online, Coldfusion, RhodesUniversity…Rhodes University academic
Vincent John Maher (born January 28, 1975) is the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online, in Johannesburg South Africa. After obtaining a B....
Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith

male, 76 years old
The 7 scrolls, Michaelhouse Old Boy, Families, Northern Rhodesia, British Book Awards, book series…RhodesUniversity
Wilbur Addison Smith (born January 9, 1933 in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)) is a best-selling novelist. As a baby, he became sick...
Selmar Schonland

Selmar Schonland

male
Botanist, South African, Taxonomist, RhodesUniversity, Member of the Linnean Society of London, Crassulaceae
Professor Selmar Schonland, the founder of the Botany Department at Rhodes University, was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern Cape in 1889...
Alice Krige

Alice Krige

female, 55 years old
from the Northern Cape Province, Star Trek Armada II, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award, Ellis Island, Chariots of Fire, Star Trek First Contact…RhodesUniversity
Alice Krige is married to writer/director, Paul Schoolman, and lives what she describes as an "itinerant" lifestyle. Although she and her husband...
Heather Ford

Heather Ford

female
Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board, Stanford University, Privacy International, Free Culture, iCommons, Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship…RhodesUniversity, university of the witwatersrand
Heather Ford is a South African who has worked in the fields of internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the...
Basil Schonland

Basil Schonland

male, deceased (1972)
physicist, South African, cambridge university, world war one, World War I, cape town…university of cape town, University of Cambridge, RhodesUniversity, University of Cape Town academic, Witwatersrand University
Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland CBE FRS (2 February 1896 - 24 November 1972) was the first president of the South African Council for...
Julian Cobbing

Julian Cobbing

male
professor, historian, Zulu, apartheid, English, RhodesUniversity
Julian Cobbing [BA Hons (London); Ph.D (Lancaster)] is an English historian, and professor of History at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South...
Max Theiler

Max Theiler

male, deceased (1972)
Leptospira icteroides, Harvard University faculty, rockefeller foundation, Rhesus monkeys, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Old Rhodian…Rhodes University College, university of cape town, RhodesUniversity, Harvard University
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 - August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951...
K. Sello Duiker

K. Sello Duiker

male, deceased (2005)
novelist, Thirteen Cents, Orlando, Soweto, Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Old Rhodian…RhodesUniversity, university of cape town
Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, was a South African novelist. His debut novel, "Thirteen Cents", won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book...
Robert Berold

Robert Berold

male
South African, Gecko Poetry, The Fires of the Dead, The Door to the River, Rain Across a Paper Field, New Coin…RhodesUniversity, zhejiang university
Robert Berold, (born 1948) is a South African author and editor. Berold was born in Johannesburg, but has lived for the last twenty years in the...