26 Notable alumni of
University of the Western Cape
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The University of the Western Cape is 1846th in the world, 42nd in Africa, and 10th in South Africa by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from the University of the Western Cape sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Thembi Kgatlana
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Christina Thembi "Pikinini" Kgatlana is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club Tigres UANL Femenil and the South Africa women's national team.
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Allan Boesak
- Occupations
- theologianpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Allan Aubrey Boesak is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric, politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in 1999 but was subsequently granted an official pardon and reinstated as a cleric in late 2004.
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Zackie Achmat
- Enrolled in the University of the Western Cape
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English literature
- Occupations
- film directorHIV/AIDS activistLGBTQI+ rights activistpolitical activist
- Biography
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Abdurrazack "Zackie" Achmat is a South African activist and film director. He is a co-founder the Treatment Action Campaign and known worldwide for his activism on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa. He currently serves as board member and co-director of Ndifuna Ukwazi (Dare to Know), an organisation which aims to build and support social justice organisations and leaders, and is the chairperson of Equal Education.
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Tina Joemat-Peterson
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participantteacher
- Biography
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Tina Monica Joemat-Pettersson was a South African politician who served as the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police from July 2019 until her death in June 2023. A member of the African National Congress, Joemat-Petterson had previously served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 2009 until 2014 and as the Minister of Energy from May 2014 until March 2017 under President Jacob Zuma.
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Danny Jordaan
- Occupations
- association football playerpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Alexander "Danny" Jordaan is the president of the South African Football Association (SAFA). He is a former lecturer, politician and anti-apartheid activist. He led South Africa's successful 2010 FIFA World Cup bid, the first successful one for Africa, as well as the country's unsuccessful bid four years earlier for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and was the chief executive officer of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. He is also the former Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, having served from May 2015 until August 2016.
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Ebrahim Patel
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Ebrahim Patel is a South African politician and former trade unionist who has been Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition since May 2019. He previously served as Minister of Economic Development from 2009 to 2019.
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Akin Omotoso
- Occupations
- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Akin Omotoso is a Nigerian film director, writer, and actor. He is best known for directing the 2022 film Rise. Both his father Kole Omotoso and his sister Yewande Omotoso are also writers.
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Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi
- Occupations
- ministerpolitician
- Biography
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Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi is a South African politician who was the Minister of Public Service and Administration from June 1999 to September 2008. Before that, from July 1996 to June 1999, she was Minister of Welfare and Population Development. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2008 and is a former deputy chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP).
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Stanley Mathabatha
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chupu Stanley Mathabatha is a South African politician who is currently the Premier of Limpopo. He was elected to the position in July 2013 after the resignation of Cassel Mathale. He was previously a public servant in Limpopo province and from 2012 to 2013 completed a brief stint as a diplomat, serving as South African Ambassador to Ukraine under President Jacob Zuma.
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Cheryl Carolus
- Occupations
- diplomatbusinesspersonpolitical activist
- Biography
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Cheryl Carolus is a South African politician. She was born in Silvertown, on the Cape Flats, Cape Town. Carolus became involved in politics while still at school and became an activist after joining the United Democratic Front in 1983. In May 1990, Carolus was elected to be part of the African National Congress' delegation which held talks with the apartheid government and in July 1991, she was elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee. She was married to Graeme Bloch, who died in 2021. In 1998, she became South Africa's High Commissioner in London. Between 2001 and 2004, she was the chief executive officer of South African Tourism. She was the Board Chairperson for South African National Parks (SANPARKS), in 2009 she assumed this position at South African Airways. She is also chairperson of Peotona Holdings, an investment company that deals with business development.
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Dipuo Peters
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Elizabeth Dipuo Peters is a South African politician who is the Deputy Minister of Small Business Development of the Republic of South Africa from 7 March 2023. She was previously the Minister of Transport from 10 July 2013 until 30 March 2017, in the Zuma administration, and former Minister of Energy from 2009 to 2013 having served as successor to Manne Dipico as the second Premier of the Northern Cape Province, 22 April 2004 to 10 May 2009. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she serves on the Women's League National Executive Committee. Dipuo Peters resigned as a member of parliament for the African National Congress in April 2017.
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Petrus Marais
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Petrus Jacobus "Peter" Marais is a South African politician who is currently serving as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
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Zamani Saul
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zamani Saul is a South African politician who is the 5th and current Premier of the Northern Cape and a Member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature. He has also been serving as the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) since his election on 12 May 2017. He previously served as the Provincial Secretary and as the Deputy Provincial Secretary of the party.
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Mogamad Ganief Ebrahim Hendricks
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mogamad Ganief Ebrahim Hendricks is a South African politician, businessman, lecturer and teacher who is a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa. He became an MP on 22 May 2019. He is the founder and current leader of Al Jama-ah, a party for upholding Muslim interests in South Africa. Hendricks was previously a City of Cape Town municipal councillor.
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Qedani Mahlangu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Qedani Dorothy Mahlangu is a South African politician who served continuously in the Gauteng Executive Council from 2004 to 2017. She is best known for her tenure as Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from 2014 to 2017, when she presided over the Life Esidimeni scandal. In February 2017, she resigned from the Executive Council and from the Gauteng Provincial Legislature after the Health Ombud, Malegapuru Makgoba, released a report which implicated her in the scandal.
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Faustine Ndugulile
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kigamboni constituency since 2010.
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Albert Fritz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Albert Theo Fritz is a South African politician and advocate. He was the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Community Safety for two nonconconsecutive terms from 2010 to 2011 and again from 2019 until his dismissal from the position amid sexual misconduct allegations in 2022. He was a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from 2010 until his resignation from the DA in 2022. He served as the interim Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape from the suspension and resignation of Bonginkosi Madikizela in April 2021 until his resignation from the party in March 2022. He was also the deputy DA provincial leader 2017 to 2021. Fritz previously served as the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Social Development from 2011 to 2019. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Member of the National Assembly and the Shadow Deputy Minister of Correctional Services.
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Wilmot James
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wilmot Godfrey James is a South African academic who served as the country's opposition spokesperson of health and Member of Parliament for the opposition Democratic Alliance. His constituencies were Mitchells Plain and Rondebosch. He was elected the party's Federal Chairperson between 2010 and 2015. Dr. James contested for the post of party leader in 2016, but lost the election to Mmusi Maimane. James served as director of Sanlam, Media24 and the Africa Genome Education Institute, and was chairperson of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and the Immigration Advisory Board of South Africa. He is also a former Trustee of the Ford Foundation of New York. He currently is a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and teaches a course on catastrophic risks at Columbia University in New York City. He is a senior consultant to the Washington DC-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) on biosecurity.
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Marius Fransman
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marius Llewellyn Fransman is a retired South African politician and teacher. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from 2014 to 2016, and as Chairperson of the Western Cape African National Congress from 2011 to 2016. He served as Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation in the cabinet of Jacob Zuma. From 2009 to 2014, he was a Member of the National Assembly. Fransman served as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from 1999 to 2009, and again from 2014 to 2016.
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José Luís Guterres
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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José Luís Guterres is an East Timorese politician and diplomat.
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Samkelisiwe Makhoba
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Samkelisiwe "Samke" Makhoba is a South African actor who has a leading role in two series of MTV Shuga when it was set in South Africa.
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Paul Treu
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Paul Treu is a former rugby union player and currently a coach at Western Province. He played for the South African Sevens between 1999 and 2003 and was named head coach of the side in 2004, where he remained until his resignation in 2013. He was the head coach of Kenya from November 2013 to December 2014, when he was appointed by Western Province in a coaching role.
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Bience Gawanas
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Bience Philomina Gawanas is a Namibian lawyer who served as Special Adviser on Africa for the United Nations from 2018 to 2020.
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Janet Kelso
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Enrolled in the University of the Western Cape
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- bioinformaticianbiologist
- Biography
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Janet Kelso is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She is best known for her work comparing DNA from previous humans (i.e. Neanderthals) with those of the present (Homo Sapiens).
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Keharanjo Nguvauva
- Biography
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Keharanjo II Xavier Komavau Nguvauva was the youngest Chief of the Ovambanderu, a Herero clan in Namibia. Keharanjo was born to the Ovambanderu family to the then Chief Munjuku Nguvauva II and his wife Aletta Karikondua Nguvauva. He was reported dead on the evening of Friday 8 April 2011 in the residential area of Khomasdal, Windhoek where he committed suicide using an electric wire.
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Imogen Wright
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- software developerbioinformatician
- Biography
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Imogen Wright is a South African software developer and bioinformatician. They are co-founder and CTO of Hyrax Biosciences, a software development company specialising in DNA analysis programs.
