- Vincent Maher
Vincent John Maher (born January 28, 1975) is the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online, in Johannesburg South Africa. After obtaining a B. Journ degree from Rhodes, Maher started his career in 1997 at VWV Interactive, the then leading South African web development company. He pioneered use of several technologies on the South African web, including early versions of Macromedia Flash (then Coolsplash). During his tenure at VWV, Maher was a co-founder of Slime.co.za, …
- Wilbur Smith
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 with cerebral malaria for ten days. Doctors had presumed he might have brain damage if he survived at all, but he survived the malaria and grew up normally. He grew up with a mother whose interests included novels of escapade and excitement, which piqued his interest; his father dissuaded him from pursuing writing, …
- Selmar Schonland
Professor Selmar Schonland, the founder of the Botany Department at Rhodes University, was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern Cape in 1889 to take up an appointment as curator of the Albany Museum. He came to Grahamstown via a doctorate at the University of Hamburg and a post at Oxford University (1886–1889 as curator of the Fielding Herbarium and a lecturer in Botany. Working under Prof.
- Alice Krige
Alice Krige is married to writer/director, Paul Schoolman, and lives what she describes as an "itinerant" lifestyle. Although she and her husband maintain a permanent home in the United States (Malibu, CA), they spend much of their time living and working abroad.
- Heather Ford
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 United States. She is the Executive Director of iCommons, a UK private charitable corporation. Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, …
- Basil Schonland
Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland CBE FRS (2 February 1896 - 24 November 1972) was the first president of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He was born in Grahamstown, South Africa to Selmar Schonland (botanist and a founder of Rhodes University) and Flora MacOwan, daughter of Peter MacOwan. In 1910 Schonland matriculated at the age of 14 from St. Andrew's College as the top pupil in the Cape Province.
- Julian Cobbing
Julian Cobbing [BA Hons (London); Ph.D (Lancaster)] is an English historian, and professor of History at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa), known best for his groundbreaking research into Zulu culture of the early 19th century. Cobbing is regarded as the first historian to discredit conventional historical beliefs about the 'Mfecane' - a term used to describe a period of wars during the 1820's and 1830's that resulted in the emergence of the Zulu nation.
- Max Theiler
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 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever. Theiler was born in Pretoria, South Africa, his father Arnold Theiler was a veterinary bacteriologist. He attended Pretoria Boys High School, Rhodes University College, and then University of Cape Town Medical School graduating in 1918.
- K. Sello Duiker
Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, was a South African novelist. His debut novel, "Thirteen Cents", won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book written by an African writer. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter, at the time of his death he was working as an editor of drama for SABC1. Duiker was born in Orlando, Soweto at the height of apartheid. Coming from a moderately wealthy family he was sent to a public school, …
- Robert Berold
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 Eastern Cape. He is the author of three books of poems : "The Door to the River" (Bateleur, 1984), "The Fires of the Dead" (Carrefour, 1989) and "Rain Across a Paper Field" (Gecko Poetry, 1999) and his poems have appeared in several South African anthologies.
- Zim Ngqawana
Zim Ngqawana (born 1959, Port Elizabeth, South Africa), is a South African flautist and saxophonist. He is the youngest of five children and started playing flute at the age of 21. He dropped out of school prior to meeting university entrance requirements but won entrance to a place at Rhodes University with his abilities. He later studied for a diploma in Jazz Studies at the University of Natal.
- Jeremy Mansfield
Jeremy Mansfield is a South African radio host, television presenter and comedian. He is currently (2006) the morning show host of The Rude Awakening, on a Johannesburg-based radio station 94.7 Highveld Stereo. Grahamstown-born Mansfield's broadcasting career started at Rhodes University in the same city, where he studied speech, journalism and drama. In 1985, while still a student, he started working for the Durban-based radio station "Capital Radio 604".
- Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts (1908-1997) was a British historian specializing in the early modern period and particularly known for his studies of Swedish history. Roberts was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England and educated at Brighton College. He taught at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown, South Africa from 1935, served in the army in East Africa during World War II and headed the British Council in Stockholm 1944-1946.
- James Leonard Brierley Smith
Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith was a South African ichthyologist Born in Graaff Reinet, he was the first to identify, in 1938, a captured fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought long extinct. He obtained an MSc in Chemistry at Stellenbosch and his PhD at Cambridge. Here after he lectured Chemistry at Rhodes University where he met his second wife Margaret Mary McDonald.
- Dion Forster
Dion Angus Forster (born January 14, 1972) is an ordained Minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. He is the Dean of the Seminary of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, John Wesley College, in Kilnerton, Pretoria. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He also holds the degrees of Master of Theology, and Bachelor of Theology with Honours (Honours degree), from Rhodes University.
- Solomon Linda
Solomon Popoli Linda (1909 - 8 October, 1962) was a South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became the pop hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", and gave its name to a style of isicathamiya "a cappella" popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
- Barry Streek
Barry Streek (1948 - 2006) was a South African political journalist and anti-apartheid activist. Barry Streek was educated at Michaelhouse and then studied journalism at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. In Rhodes he joined the anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students. In 1984 he founded the Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT) to assist and help develop poor rural communities in South Africa.
- Frederick Guy Butler
Guy Butler (full name Frederick Guy Butler, b 21 January, 1918 in Cradock, Eastern Cape South Africa - 26 April, 2001, Grahamstown, South Africa) was a South African poet and writer. He was born and educated in the Eastern Cape town of Cradock. He attended Rhodes University and received his MA in 1938. After marrying Jean Satchwell in 1940 he left South Africa to fight in the Second World War.
- Stephen Bowen
Stephen Bowen is the current Dean and CEO of Oxford College of Emory University. Bowen received his bachelor's degree in 1971 from Depauw University, followed two years later by an M.A. from Indiana University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1976 from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Bowen's academic specialty is in the ecology of fisheries, having published widely on diet and digestion in a number of aquatic species, …
- Robert V. Taylor
The Very Reverend Robert V. Taylor (born ca. 1959 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a priest in the Episcopal Church USA and a lifelong activist for social justice. He was installed in 1999 as dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, making him the first openly gay Episcopal dean in the United States and, at the time, the highest-ranking openly gay clergy in the Episcopal Church. As a young man in South Africa, Taylor was an anti-apartheid activist.
- Berry Bickle
Berry Bickle (b. 1959) is a Zimbabwean artist. Bickle was educated at the Durban Institute of Technology and South Africa's Rhodes University. She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and concerns her work with the region's history of colonialism. Her works are generally installations, and are mixed media works which incorporate script; some include video and photography.
- Gerald J. Pillay
Professor Gerald John Pillay FRSA (born December 21 1953) is the present Vice Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University. Born in Natal in South Africa, Pillay was awarded a BA, a BD (with Distinction) and Doctor of Theology from the University of Durban-Westville and a further DPhil in Philosophical Theology from Rhodes University. On September 1 2003, Professor Pillay was appointed Chief Executive of Liverpool Hope University.
- Kathleen Satchwell
Kathleen Satchwell is a judge of the High Court, Transvaal Provincial Division, in South Africa. She was educated at Rhodes University in the 1960s. She was a prominent human rights attorney in the 1990s. She gave evidence before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the role of the legal system in contributing to the violations of human rights in South Africa under apartheid..
- Anand Naidoo
Anand Naidoo is currently an Anchor & Correspondent for Al Jazeera English based in Washington DC. Naidoo was an anchor for CNN International's World News. He joined CNN in 1997. Before that he was the national evening news anchor for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in Johannesburg. Naidoo also previously worked at Radio 702, a Johannesburg independent radio station and as a presenter on the South African cable station, M-Net.
- Sir Rupert Bromley
Sir Rupert Charles Bromley, 10th Bt. (born 2 April 1936 in South Africa) is a retired businessman. Bromley was educated at Michaelhouse and graduated with a BA from Rhodes University and with a MA from Christ Church, Oxford In 1956, he won a Rhodes scholarship and also gained the rank of officer in the sevice of the Royal Rhodesia Regiment. In 1959, he was admitted to Inner Temple and entitled to practice as a barrister.
- Malcolm Kohll
Malcolm Kohll was born in 1953 in South Africa. He is a writer and producer. He attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he trained as a journalist. On completing his course he came to London and did a post-graduate in Film and Television, at Middlesex Polytechnic. He then tried to break into film and television, but found it harder than he had expected. Malcolm Kohll's first filmed script was for the science fiction series "Doctor Who".
- Avery Clare
Clare Avery (born May 28 1945) is an artist, specialising in colourful abstracts in oils and in acrylics, including a substantial body of painted acrylic collages. Avery was born in Buckinghamshire, England and had a peripatetic childhood mainly in London, Sussex and Surrey. After leaving school she studied at Brighton Art College and then was selected for the prestigious painting school at the Royal College of Art.
- Thomas Shone
Thomas Shone (1784-1868) was an 1820 Settler. Born in London to a wealthy merchant family, he joined the Royal Navy at 19 and while on board HMS Nelson, was captured by the French on 14th Aug 1803. He was imprisoned in Giuvet and Sarilibre prison camps and there he learnt his trade of shoe making. With the aid of French Freemasons he escaped to England where he started a family in London.
- Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (5 October 1947 - 22 September 2000) was a South African artist. He was born in Molteno, in the Queenstown district. He became a South African parabat with aspirations of becoming a mercenary. Chandler changed career direction while studying at Rhodes University where he was influenced by the 1968 student uprisings in Paris, France. Chandler was elected president of the South African Association of Arts in 1993.
- Daniela Faris
I am completing my 4th and final year of Journalism at Rhodes University. I studied design and layout in my 3rd year, and decided to broaden my knowledge by specialising in New Media this year.
- Sharon Anstey
Sharon Anstey , Marketing Director Ms. Anstey has extensive sales and marketing experience derived from a broad range of industries. Her strategic input is invaluable particularly when coupled with strong implementation skills. Upon arriving in the US from her native South Africa in the mid 1980s, she spent six years with Marketing Corporation of America working in every aisle of the supermarket on assignments ranging from brand repositioning to portfolio assessment.
- Dominic White
Dominic White is a manager in the Deloitte Security & Privacy group in South Africa. Before joining Deloitte, Dominic graduated from Rhodes University with a Masters degree in Computer Science , specialising in information security. Dominic currently co-manages the internal vulnerability management competency for the Southern African Deloitte practice.
- Tanya Accone
- Chris Joseph
Sales Manager for new IT Recruitment firm in Milton Keynes, looking to develop relationships with new business in the area looking for IT people and for Recruitment Consultants looking for a new challenge.
- Marc Kahn
MARC KAHN MA(Clin. Psych.) , MSAIP, MWABC Managing Director Marc is managing director of Encounter Consulting Pty (Ltd). Marc is managing director of Encounter Consulting Pty (Ltd). He is a senior executive coach and registered clinical psychologist. He is a senior executive coach and registered clinical psychologist.
- Linda Dorrington
Linda Dorrington Director - Public and Linda Dorrington Linda Dorrington is an external affairs professional with strong skills in communications strategy development embracing media, community and government relations. With over 18 years of experience, she has a proven track record in effective reputation management and implementation of all aspects of communications strategy.
- Jonathan Falconer
Jonathan Falconer Jonathan is South African and attended Rhodes University graduating with a B.A. (Hons) in Psychology. He has spent close to a decade in Asia – firstly in Taiwan and then Tokyo. He began his career in executive search in 2001. Prior to establishing Beaumont he was a Partner in a global search firm where he managed the Industrial Practice.
- Zenobia Africa
Zenobia Africa: Consultant: Knowledge Management, Public Sector and Local Government Reform
- Nicky
I am a fun loving individual. I enjoy meeting new people and aspire to travel one day. I am a singer and I have a great sense of humour and get along well with anyone. I love having a GOOD TIME!!!
- Liezl
I'm 19yrs old and joined MySpace to meet some new and interesting people.