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List of alumni of the University of Cape Town

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This list of the notable alumni of the University of Cape Town is divided into the six faculties of the university: Commerce, Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering, and Law.

Commerce

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Humanities

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Music

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Fine art

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Drama

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Sciences

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Sir Aaron Klug, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982

Health sciences

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Social sciences

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Law

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  • Professor Reg Austin, founding Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Zimbabwe; Zimbabwean academic who served the Commonwealth Secretariat as Director of Legal and Constitutional Affairs from 1993 to 1998. He had previously been Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Zimbabwe (1982-92) and Chief Electoral Officer of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (1992-93).
  • Morris Alexander (1877–1946), member of parliament[13]
  • David Bloomberg, former Mayor of Cape Town (1973–1975) and defence attorney for Dimitri Tsafendas, who fatally stabbed the Prime Minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, in Parliament in 1966
  • Sheila Camerer, South African politician; former Deputy Minister of Justice; long-serving Member of Parliament of the main opposition the Democratic Alliance; ambassador to Bulgaria; completed a Bachelor of Law degree at UCT in 1964
  • Ryan Coetzee, South African politician; former CEO of the Democratic Alliance and Shadow Minister of Economic Development; chief strategist for Western Cape premier Helen Zille; graduated from UCT in 1994
  • Beric John Croome, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa; Chartered Accountant CA (SA); taxpayers' rights pioneer; completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree (1980), Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy (1981) and a PhD (Commercial Law) (2008) at UCT[14]
  • Ezra Davids, Chair of Bowmans and leading mergers & acquisitions expert, named as South African DealMaker of the Year for 2009.
  • Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool, anti-apartheid political and civil rights leader
  • Zuleikha Hassan, Kenyan politician; Kwale County Woman Representative and Member of Parliament
  • Stephen Jolly, Australian activist and politician
  • Jeffrey Jowell, was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) for "services to human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe".
  • Fana Mokoena, South African politician and actor, member of the National Assembly of South Africa and a delegate to the National Council of Provinces
  • Clotilde Mukamurera, president of the High Court of Commerce of Rwanda
  • Ian Neilson, Executive Deputy Mayor of Cape Town
  • Dullah Omar, South African anti-apartheid activist; lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; minister in the South African cabinet from 1994 until his death
  • Kate O'Regan, former Constitutional Court of South Africa judge
  • Judge Taswell Papier, Judge of the Western Cape High Court* Albie Sachs, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
  • Kate Savage, formerly Judge of the South African Labour Appeal Court, appointed to South Africa's Constitutional Court in April 2026.
  • James Selfe, long-serving Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance; chairperson of the party's federal council; holds a master's degree from UCT
  • Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
  • Dianna Yach, anti-apartheid activist in the 80s and 90s, now Chair of the Mauerberger Foundation Fund, South Africa.
  • Percy Yutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial.
  • As of 2023, Corey Mbonge was the first and only African American to graduate from UCT's LLB program in its 160 year history.

References

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  1. ↑ "City of Cape Town Link". City of Cape Town. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
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  4. ↑ Barron, Chris (15 January 2006). "Peter Busse: A warrior in the AIDS Battle". Sunday Times. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Hendricks, Fred (1 December 2008). "The Mafeje Affair: The University of Cape Town and Apartheid". African Studies. 67 (3): 423–451. doi:10.1080/00020180802505061. ISSN 0002-0184. S2CID 145251370.
  6. ↑ Makgoba, Thabo (2009). African workplace spirituality in South African mines (Ph.D.). University of the Cape Town. hdl:11427/8960.
  7. ↑ Katjavivi, Peter (20 March 2018). "Eulogy of Nora Schimming-Chase by Professor Peter Katjavivi". New Era.
  8. ↑ Luther, Claudia. "Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation", Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2010. Accessed 20 June 2010.
  9. ↑ "Talbot, Frank Hamilton (1930-)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation. 20 June 2022. Archived from the original on 10 November 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  10. ↑ The Independent
  11. ↑ FOX, Margalit (8 February 2013). "John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94". New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  12. ↑ "Debora Patta resigns as e.tv head of news." IOL. 1 October 2009. Retrieved on 30 October 2012.
  13. ↑ Abrahams, Israel (1968). "Alexander, Morris". In De Kock, W. J. (ed.). Dictionary of South African Biography. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). p. 10. OCLC 85921202.
  14. ↑ "DigiTool – Results – Full". Srvrhldig001.uct.ac.za.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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