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Academic matters fall under the control of Senate, which comprises the members listed below.
Where an individual is listed more than once, the secondary listings are marked with an asterisk (*). For example, where a person is a professor, his or her primary listing is as a professor.
As of 1 July 2020 the membership of Senate stood at 357.
Vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellors | Deans/acting deans and deputy deans/acting deputy deans | Heads and acting heads of academic departments | Professors
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* Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng |
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Deputy vice-chancellors |
*Professor Loretta Feris |
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Associate Professor Lis Lange |
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| *Professor Sue Harrison (1 August 2019 to 31 July 2024) |
Deans/acting deans and deputy deans/acting deputy deans
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CHED Dean
Deputy deans |
Associate Professor Alan Cliff (Interim Dean)
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Commerce Dean
Deputy deans |
Associate Professor Linda Ronnie Associate Professor Sure Mataramvura Professor Jeffrey Jacob Bagraim Associate Professor Tessa Minter |
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Engineering & the Built Environment Dean
Deputy deans |
*Professor Alison Emslie Lewis *Associate Professor Sunetra Chowdhury *Professor Azeem Khan *Professor Marianne Vanderschuren *Professor Jack Fletcher |
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Health Sciences Dean
Deputy deans
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Associate Professor Lionel Patrick Green-Thompson
*Professor Elelwani Ramugondo Dr Kerrin Begg Dr Tracey Naledi |
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Humanities Dean
Deputy deans |
*Associate Professor Shose Kessi Vacant *Professor Adam Haupt Associate Professor Nomusa Mary Makhubu Associate Professor Zain Davis |
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Law Dean Deputy deans |
Professor Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa *Dr Kathleen Idensohn Associate Professor Lee-Ann Tong |
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Science Dean
Deputy deans |
*Professor Maano Ramutsindela *Associate Professor Adam West *Professor Jeffrey Murugan *Professor Rebecca Ackerman |
Heads and acting heads of academic departments
Academic departments are organisational units formally recognised as such by Senate and Council in terms of the Statute. Some are styled "schools" while 2 are styled "colleges", but all have the status of academic department.
As of 1 January 2020, there were 59 recognised academic departments.
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Academic Development Programme |
Associate Professor Ermien van Pletzen |
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Accounting, College of |
Associate Professor Jacqueline Kew |
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African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, School of |
*Professor Mehmood Shahid Vawda |
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Anaesthesia |
*Professor Justus Ludolph Christiaan Swanvelder |
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Archaeology |
Emeritus Associate Professor Simon Hall |
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Architecture, Planning & Geomatics |
Dr Phillipa Tumubweinee |
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Astronomy |
*Professor Patrick Woudt |
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Biological Sciences |
*Professor Abraham Muthama Muasya |
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Chemical Engineering |
*Professor Aubrey Mainza |
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Chemistry |
*Professor Timothy Egan |
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Civil Engineering |
*Professor Pilate Moyo |
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Commercial Law |
*Associate Professor Debbie Collier |
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Computer Science |
*Professor Hussein Suleman |
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Construction, Economics and Management |
Associate Professor Kathleen Michell |
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Economics |
*Professor Justine Burns |
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Education |
Associate Professor Catherine Kell |
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Electrical Engineering |
Associate Professor Frederick Nicolls |
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English Language and Literature |
*Associate Professor Barbara-Anne Boswell |
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Environmental and Geographical Science |
Associate Professor Merle Sowman |
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Film and Media Studies |
*Professor Hermanus Wasserman |
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Finance and Tax |
Associate Professor Francois Toerien |
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Fine Art |
Associate Bernadette Searle |
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Geological Sciences |
*Professor Christopher Harris |
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Graduate School of Business |
*Emeritus Professor Hugh Corder |
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Health and Rehabilitation Sciences |
*Associate Professor Lebogang Ramma |
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Health Sciences Education |
*Professor Francois Cilliers |
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Historical Studies |
Dr Bodhisattva Kar |
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Human Biology |
*Professor Sharon Prince |
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Information Systems |
*Professor Irwin Brown |
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Information Technology |
*Professor Ulrike Rivett |
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Integrative Biomedical Sciences |
*Professor Edward David Sturrock |
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Knowledge and Information Stewardship |
*Professor Jayarani Raju |
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Languages and Literature |
Associate Professor Roman Roth |
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Management Studies |
Associate Professor Suki Goodman |
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Mathematics and Applied Mathematics |
Dr David Erwin |
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Mechanical Engineering |
*Professor Brandon Collier-Reed |
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Medicine |
*Professor Ntobeko Ntusi |
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Molecular and Cell Biology |
Professor Edward Rybicki |
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Music, South African College of |
*Professor Rebekka Sandmeier |
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
*Professor Lynnette Ann Denny |
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Oceanography |
*Professor Isabelle Ansorge |
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Paediatrics and Child Health
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*Professor Andrew Argent |
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Pathology |
Professor Rajkumar Ramesar |
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Philosophy |
*Professor Bernhard Weiss |
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Physics |
*Professor Andy Buffler |
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Political Studies |
Associate Professor Thiven Reddy |
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Private Law |
*Professor Mohamed Paleker *Professor Tjakie Naude |
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Psychiatry and Mental Health |
*Professor Dan Joseph Stein |
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Psychology |
Associate Professor Kevin Thomas |
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Public Health and Family Medicine |
*Professor Benjamin Myer |
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Public Law |
*Professor Pierre De Vos |
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Radiation Medicine |
*Professor Jeannette Parkes |
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Religious Studies |
*Professor Franklin-Kennedy Asonzeh Ukah |
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Social Development |
Professor Catherine Ward |
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Sociology |
Associate Professor Elena Moore and
Associate Professor Amrita Pande |
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Statistical Sciences |
Associate Professor Francesca Little |
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Surgery |
*Professor Anthony Graham Fieggen |
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Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies |
Mrs Sarah Matchett |
The Professors: professors are listed at the end of this Senate list.
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12 members elected by the academic staff (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2024) |
Dr Ayanda Gcelu Associate Professor Denver Hendricks Dr Alvina Kubeka Associate Professor Dirk Lang Mr Timothy Low Associate Professor Frank Matose Associate Professor Manya Mooya Dr Kelley Moult Dr Hlumani Ndlovu Associate Professor Bob Osano Mr Jacques Rousseau Associate Professor Maureen Tanner |
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4 members elected by the Professional, Administrative, Support & Service (PASS) Staff (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2024) |
Vacant |
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6 students appointed by the SRC
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Lance-Selae August Wandile Kasibe Rebeng Maine Asemahle Ntumntum Jamie-Lee Thomas Aviwe Vilane |
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2 members of Council Elected by Council (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2024) |
Emeritus Professor Kit Vaughan Professor Neil Eccles |
Assessor Members
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List 1: Assessor Members Chief Operating Officer
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Dr Reno Morar Mr Carl Herman Ms Jane Hendry
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List 2: The Executive Directors of Student Affairs and the University Libraries Executive Director: Student Affairs
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Dr Moonira Khan Ms Ujala Sutgoor
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List 3: Members appointed by the Nominations Committee from the Academic Departments (57) (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2024) 2 Vacancies |
Dr Riashna Sithaldeen Mrs Sumaya West Dr June Bam-Hutchison Associate Professor Romy Parker Dr Sarah-Louise Blythe Dr Heather Marco Mr Malibongwe Manono Dr Clive Oliver Associate Professor Denis Kalumba Mrs Afton Titus Associate Professor Deshendran Moodley Associate Professor Abimbola Windapo Mr Allan Davids Miss Xolisa Guzula Mrs Kehinde Awodele Dr Christopher Ouma Associate Professor Zarina Patel Dr Liani Maasdorp Associate Professor Chun-Sung Huang Mr Fabian Saptouw Vacant Associate Professor Hamieda Parker Mrs Shamila Manie Dr Natashia Muna Dr Anandaroop Sen Dr Kishor Bugarith Miss Ayanda Pekane Associate Professor Zenda Woodman Dr Mzwandile Shongwe Dr Rethabile Mogoera Mr Siphiwe Dlamini Dr Anneliese Schauerte Mr Sa-aadat Parker Dr Neliswa Gogela Dr Colleen O'Ryan Associate Professor Sylvia Ruth Bruinders Dr Shanil Jensen Haricharan Dr Nomonde Mbatani Vacant Dr Petula Wicomb Dr Sabelo Hadebe Vacant Dr Dale Taylor Ms Xichavo Ndlovu Ms Fatima Osman Dr Qhama Cossie Dr Mandisa Malinga Dr Jabulani Ncayiyana Mrs Salona Lutchman Dr Qonita Said-Hartley Associate Professor Sa'diyya Shaikh Ms Fatima Williams Dr Ruchi Chaturvedi Associate Professor Freedom Gumedze Associate Professor Tumishang Mmamalatsi Salome Maswime Mr Mbongeni Ntuthuko Mtshali |
Professors
Total as of 01 July 2020: 216
(With the year of professorial appointment)
| Rebecca Rogers Ackermann | 2018 |
| Jane Alexander | 2008 |
| Muhammad Saalih Allie | 2020 |
| Kurt Andre April | 2006 |
| Carolyn Susan Ardington | 2016 |
| Carolyn Ardington | 2016 |
| Neil Philip Armitage | 2015 |
| Lillian Melinda Artz | 2019 |
| Azeem Badroodien | 2018 |
| Igor Vladilenovich Barashenkov | 2001 |
| Paul Stanley Barendse | 2018 |
| Alfred Jacobus Barnard-Naude | 2012 |
| Karen Irma Barnes | 2009 |
| Stefan Barth | 2015 |
| Adrian Bruce Charles Christopher Bassett | 2011 |
| Roger Benjamin Behrens | 2020 |
| Linda-Gail Bekker | 2013 |
| Tunde Belle-Ochende | 2016 |
| David Benatar | 2007 |
| Toma Berlanda | 2015 |
| Hans-Dieter Beushausen | 2017 |
| Deon Bezuidenhout | 2020 |
| Haroon Ismail Bhorat | 2007 |
| Nicholas Budeo Biekpe | 2012 |
| Anthony Henry Black | 2008 |
| Jonathan Blackburn | 2008 |
| Marc Blockman | 2017 |
| Edward Sidney Boje | 2013 |
| Floretta Avril Boonzaier | 2019 |
| Andrew Marc Boulle | 2017 |
| Susan Ann Bourne | 2008 |
| Adrian John Brink | 2019 |
| Frank Brombacher | 2000 |
| Anthony Michael Butler | 2012 |
| Robert Greig Cameron | 2004 |
| Keith Stone Cattell | 2010 |
| Kelly Chibale | 2007 |
| Wallace Mankhwala Gwaza Chigona | 2015 |
| Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan | 2003 |
| Shadreck Chirikure | 2018 |
| Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa | 2012 |
| Horman Chitonge | 2020 |
| Michael Christian Claeys | 2010 |
| Malcolm Robert Collins | 2013 |
| Marc Irwin Combrinck | 2011 |
| Imraan Coovadia | 2016 |
| Michael Denis Cramer | 2019 |
| Laura Czerniewicz | 2019 |
| Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie | 2017 |
| Collet Dandara | 2016 |
| Alan Davidson | 2018 |
| Francois Servaas De Kock | 2020 |
| Pierre Francois de Vos | 2009 |
| Petrus de Vries | 2012 |
| David Alan Deglon | 2011 |
| Andrea Deumert | 2016 |
| Keertan Unkha Jairan Dheda | 2012 |
| Kirsten Ann Mary Donald | 2020 |
| Tania Douglas | 2013 |
| Robert Neil Dunn | 2012 |
| Peter Klaus Dunsby | 2007 |
| Silke Dyer | 2014 |
| Lawrence James Edwards | 2013 |
| Brian Stephen Eley | 2016 |
| Anton Gabriel Fagan | 2006 |
| Johannes Jacobus Fagan | 2002 |
| Jill Margaret Farrant | 2005 |
| Anthony Aaron Figaji | 2012 |
| Mark Jay Fleishman | 2012 |
| Komla Agbenyo Folly | 2016 |
| Thomas Franz | 2018 |
| James Edward Gain | 2018 |
| Roshan Galvaan | 2018 |
| Lucy Jennifer Gilson | 2008 |
| Clive Maurice Gray | 2011 |
| Lesley Joan Fordred Green | 2019 |
| Lukasz Jaroslaw Grzybowski | 2019 |
| Ralph Hamann | 2014 |
| Joan Helene Hambidge | 2003 |
| Carolyn Anne Hamilton | 2008 |
| Janet Patricia Hapgood | 2007 |
| Mark Hatherill | 2017 |
| Jeannine Mariette Heckmann | 2020 |
| Terry Albert Hedderson | 2006 |
| Bruce Charles Hewitson | 2005 |
| Alan Hirsch | 2013 |
| Michael Timm Hoffman | 2001 |
| Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr | 2010 |
| Nicola Illing | 2011 |
| Stephen Charles Inggs | 2013 |
| Muazzam Jacobs | 2016 |
| George Janelidze | 2004 |
| Thomas Harold Jarrett | 2012 |
| Mohammed Fareed Jeebhay | 2010 |
| Eduard Gideon Jonas | 2019 |
| John Joska | 2018 |
| Harsha Kathard | 2016 |
| Arieh Katz | 2013 |
| Nonhlanhla Khumalo | 2017 |
| Sharon Rose Kleintjes | 2018 |
| Robert Douglas Knutsen | 2008 |
| Thomas Albert Koelble | 2000 |
| Patricia Jane Kooyman | 2015 |
| Reneé Christine Kraan-Korteweg | 2005 |
| Hans-Peter Albert Künzi | 2000 |
| Michael Kyobe | 2015 |
| Estelle Victoria Lambert | 2005 |
| Michael Ian Lambert | 2010 |
| Rochelle le Roux | 2011 |
| Virna Drucille Leaner | 2017 |
| Sandrine Lecour | 2017 |
| Murray Victor Leibbrandt | 2000 |
| Leslie London | 2005 |
| Theresa Lorenzo | 2016 |
| Vernon Louw | 2018 |
| Kathleen Margaret Luckett | 2020 |
| John Manuel da Silva Luiz | 2011 |
| Christopher Alan Lund | 2015 |
| Gary Maartens | 2004 |
| Arnaud George Malan | 2014 |
| Rashida Manjoo | 2015 |
| Lorna Jean Martin | 2004 |
| Shanaz Mathews | 2018 |
| Mignon Irene McCulloch | 2020 |
| Helen McIlleron | 2017 |
| Ernesta Maria Meintjes | 2015 |
| Graeme Ayton Meintjes | 2016 |
| Peter Nicholas Meissner | 2008 |
| Marc Irwin Mendelson | 2015 |
| Thomas Andreas Meyer | 2015 |
| Valerie Mizrahi | 2011 |
| Klaus Peter Moller | 2009 |
| Jennifer Rose Moodley | 2017 |
| Brenda Morrow | 2017 |
| Hanri Mostert | 2008 |
| Thomas Moultrie | 2015 |
| Edwin Muchapondwa | 2016 |
| Nicola Jane Mulder | 2015 |
| Elsie Maria Muller | 2017 |
| Kevin Jonathan Naidoo | 2011 |
| Nicoli Jean Nattrass | 1999 |
| Pradeep Harkison Navsaria | 2015 |
| Caroline Ncube | 2011 |
| Deon Nel | 2020 |
| Mark George New | 2011 |
| Andrew Nicol | 2017 |
| Eftychia Nikolaidou | 2019 |
| Mpiko Ntsekhe | 2013 |
| Alp Numanoglu | 2013 |
| Francis Beng Nyamnjoh | 2009 |
| Mannus Justin O’Riain | 2014 |
| Ikechi Gareth Okpechi | 2018 |
| Sophie Oldfield | 2015 |
| Mohamed Paleker | 2020 |
| Alexander Ross Paterson | 2013 |
| Jayendran Pather | 2020 |
| Nigel Penn | 2012 |
| André Peshier | 2010 |
| Joachim Petersen | 2016 |
| Rosina Mamokgethi Phakeng | 2017 |
| Edgar Arther Pieterse | 2008 |
| Patrizio Piraino | 2020 |
| Vimal Ranchhod | 2018 |
| Chris James Charles Reason | 2006 |
| Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy | 1989 |
| Stephen John Young Reid | 2010 |
| Donald Alan Ross | 2001 |
| Fiona Chiswell Ross | 2013 |
| Michael John Rossi | 2007 |
| Hannah-Andrea Rother | 2018 |
| Pieter Gerhardus Rousseau | 2015 |
| Peter Geoffrey Ryan | 2014 |
| Philippe-Joseph Salazar (Distinguished) | 1986 |
| Anton Schlechter | 2016 |
| Pamela Jane Schwikkard | 2001 |
| Thomas Jens Scriba | 2019 |
| Judith Clare Sealy | 2007 |
| Jeremy Fraser Seekings | 2003 |
| Patrick Semple | 2014 |
| Marjanne Senekal | 2017 |
| Alison Victoria September | 2018 |
| Lisa Florence Seymour | 2020 |
| Mashiko Setshedi | 2018 |
| Suellen Butler Shay | 2019 |
| Robert William John Simmonds | 2015 |
| Phillipa Ann Skotnes | 1999 |
| Karen Sliwa-Hahnle | 2010 |
| Deirdre Smythe | 2015 |
| Mark Leonard Solms | 2002 |
| Catherine Wendy Nest Spearman | 2019 |
| Claire Spottiswoode | 2016 |
| Andrew Russel Taylor | 2014 |
| Abdulkader Ismail Tayob | 1999 |
| Colin Getty Tredoux | 2008 |
| Arjan Bastiaan van As | 2008 |
| Jean-Paul Willy van Belle | 2011 |
| Elrena van der Spuy | 2013 |
| Eliza Jacobus van Honk | 2014 |
| Paul van Rensburg | 2002 |
| Eric Wilhelmus van Steen | 2002 |
| Cornelius Peter van Walbeek | 2015 |
| Martine Maria Christina Visser | 2015 |
| Harro von Blottnitz | 2013 |
| Lee Alan Wallis | 2012 |
| Catherine Louise Ward | 2018 |
| David Wardle | 2006 |
| Digby Francis Warner | 2019 |
| Vanessa Jane Watson | 2003 |
| Amanda Weltman | 2020 |
| Anna-Lise Williamson | 2005 |
| Carolyn Williamson | 2010 |
| Joanne Wilmshurst | 2014 |
| Harald Ernst Winkler | 2011 |
| Martin Werner Wittenberg | 2012 |
| Rachel Paula Wynberg | 2020 |
| Sandra Michele Young | 2020 |
| Heather Joy Zar | 2008 |
| Peter Zilla | 2000 |
| Alphose Zingoni | 2003 |
| Liesl Joanna Zühlke | 2020 |
| Marcus Henricus Petrus Zuidgeest | 2019 |
Information supplied by:
Office of the Registrar
Updated: 12 August 2020
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