Raymond Basil van Staden

Raymond Basil van Staden was born on 27 January 1961 at the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. He studied Security Management, Forensic Investigations and Criminal Justice as well as International Studies.

A security industry specialist and risk adviser, Van Staden lost his life on Good Friday, April 2010, after a breathtaking feat trying to rescue a drowning child.

Peter Moonsammy

Peter Moonsammy was born on 25 March 1928 in Market St, Johannesburg. Moonsamy was  the elder brother of Paul and Dasu Joseph who were Transvaal Indian Congress activists. After his father died, Moonsamy went to work as a bellboy to help support a family of eleven siblings at the age of fourteen.

Allan Kirkland Soga

Allan Kirkland Soga was among the founding members of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912, he was the youngest son of Tiyo Soga, the first African in South Africa to be ordained a minister. His mother was a Scot, and he was educated in the Cape and in Scotland, receiving sufficient legal education to be appointed a magistrate. Later dismissed from this position, he was employed at other times as a labour bureau agent and a road inspector in the Transkei.

Hezekiel Sepeng

Hezekiel Sepeng was born on 30 June 1974 in Potchestroom, Western Transvaal. At primary school he began to show the natural talent of a good marathon runner. Sepeng’s running talent was spotted in one of J.P. van der Merwe’s coaching clinics in the township outside Potchestroom. Knowing that Sepeng’s true potential would be best realised in an environment that nurtured his ability, he was afforded entrance to the only available local place for this: Potchefstroom Boys High School. An uphill battle to register the Black youth in an Afrikaans school eventually succeeded.

Nthato Harrison Motlana

Black business pioneer, community leader, altruistic medical practitioner, involved in several education initiatives, former secretary-general of the ANC Youth League, multimillionaire. In the first part of his long life, Dr Motlana played a central role in the internal resistance that led to the liberation of South Africa, and then co-founded and built up the black empowerment company New Africa Investments (Nail), with a market capitalisation of over R10 billion and profits exceeding R300 million by 1999.

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