Governance
Senate
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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 January 2019 the membership of Senate stood at 363.
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 Kevin Naidoo (1 January 2019 to 31 March 2019) |
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Chief Operating Officer |
Dr Reno Morar |
Deans/acting deans and deputy deans/acting deputy deans
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CHED Dean
Deputy deans |
Associate Professor Alan Cliff (Acting Dean) Professor Mbulungeni Ronald Madiba |
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Commerce Dean
Deputy deans |
Associate Professor Linda Ronnie *Professor Jeffrey Jacob Bagraim Associate Professor Sure Mataramvura Associate Professor Marie Therese Minter Associate Professor Ines Meyer |
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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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*Professor Carolyn Williamson (Interim Dean)
*Professor Susan Kidson Associate Professor Gonda Perez |
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Humanities Dean
Deputy deans |
*Professor David Wardle (Acting Dean) Dr Peter Anderson *Professor Adam Haupt To be advised Dr Shose Kessi |
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Law Dean Deputy deans |
Professor Danwood Chirwa Associate Professor Tracy Gutuza Associate Professor Graham Bradfield |
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Science Interim Dean
Dean
Deputy deans |
*Professor Susan Bourne *Professor Maano Ramutsindela *Associate Professor Adam West *Professor Nicola Illing *Professor Maano Ramutsindela Associate Professor David Gammon |
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 2019 there were 55 recognised academic departments.
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Academic Development Programme |
Associate Professor Ermien van Pletzen |
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Accounting, College of |
Associate Professor Goolam Modack |
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African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, School of |
*Professor Shahid Vawda |
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Anaesthesia |
*Professor Justus Ludolph Christiaan Swanvelder |
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Archaeology |
Professor Shadreck Chirikure |
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Architecture, Planning & Geomatics, School of |
Dr Philippa Tumubweinee |
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Astronomy |
*Professor Patrick Woudt |
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Ballet School |
Mr Gerard Samuel |
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Biological Sciences |
Associate Professor 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 |
*Professor Debbie Collier |
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Computer Science |
Associate Professor Hussein Suleman Professor James Gain |
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Construction, Economics and Management |
Associate Professor Kathy Michell |
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Economics, School of |
Professor Justine Burns |
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Education, School of |
Associate Professor Catherine Kell |
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Electrical Engineering |
*Professor Edward Boje *Associate Professor Fred Nicolls |
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English Language and Literature |
Associate Professor Sandra Young |
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Environmental and Geographical Science |
Associate Professor Merle Sowman |
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Film and Media Studies |
*Professor Herman Wasserman |
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Finance and Tax |
Associate Professor Francois Toerien |
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Fine Art, Michaelis School of |
Associate Professor Berni Searle Dr Kurt Campbell |
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Geological Sciences |
*Professor Christopher Harris |
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Graduate School of Business |
*Associate Professor Kosheek Sewchurran |
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Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice |
*Professor Alan Hirsch |
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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 Malcolm Collins |
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IIDMM |
*Professor Valerie Mizrahi |
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Information Systems |
*Professor Irwin Brown |
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Information Technology, School of |
*Professor Ulrike Rivett |
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Integrative Biomedical Sciences |
*Professor Edward David Sturrock |
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Knowledge and Information Stewardship |
*Associate Professor Jayarani Raju |
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Languages and Literatures, School of |
Associate Professor Roman Roth |
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Management Studies, School of |
Associate Professor Suki Goodman |
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Mathematics and Applied Mathematics |
*Professor Peter Dunsby |
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Mechanical Engineering |
*Professor Genevieve Langdon |
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Medicine |
*Professor Ntobeko Ntusi |
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Molecular and Cell Biology |
Professor Janet Hapgood Professor Ed Rybicki Professor Jill Farrant |
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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 |
Associate 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 Bernard Weiss |
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Physics |
Professor Andy Buffler |
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Political Studies |
Associate Professor Thiven Reddy |
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Primary Health Care Directorate |
Professor Steve Reid |
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Private Law |
Associate Professor Mohamed Paleker |
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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 Landon Myer |
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Public Law |
*Professor Elrena van der Spuy |
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Radiation Medicine |
*Professor Steve Beningfield |
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Religious Studies |
Associate Professor Asonzeh Ukah |
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SATVI |
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Social Development |
Associate Professor Ndangwa Noyoo |
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Sociology |
Associate Professor Elena Moore |
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Statistical Sciences |
Associate Professor Francesca Little |
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Surgery |
*Professor Graham Fieggen |
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 2016 to 30 June 2020) 2 vacancies |
Dr Kasturi Behari-Leak Dr David Erwin Mr Ernesto Ismail Dr Mohlopheni Marakalala Associate Professor Manya Mooya Mr Jacques André Rosseau Professor Alison September Associate Professor Lisa Seymour Dr Corrinne Shaw Dr Sumarie Roodt Ms Tando Ntunja Associate Professor Maureen Tanner |
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4 members elected by the Professional, Administrative, Support & Service (PASS) Staff (1 July 2016 to 30 June 2020) |
Ms Naziema Jappie Mr Shai Makgoba Mr Frans Mamabolo Ms Andrea Plos |
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6 students appointed by the SRC
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Asanda Lobelo Sikelelwa Kwinana Sihle Lonzi Grace Moyo Hannah Margetts Zukiswa Jack |
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2 members of Council Elected by Council (1 July 2016 to 30 June 2020) |
Ms Rahmat Omar Ms Sheila Barsel |
Up to 35 co-opted Members
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List 1: Co-opted Ex Officio (7) Director: Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching Director: Schools Intervention Initiative Director: School of Dance
Executive Director: University Libraries |
Professor Laura Czerniewicz
Dr Jonathan Clark
Ms Lisa Wilson
Ms Medeé Rall
Dr Moonira Khan
Ms Ujala Sutgoor |
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List 2: Co-opted under the provision of the Statute allowing for co-option that allows for greater diversity in the Senate (26) (1 July 2016 to 30 June 2020) |
Associate Professor Muhammad Saalih Allie Associate Professor Waheeda Amien Dr Abongwe Bangeni Dr Lydia Cairncross Dr Joel Chigada Dr Shari Daya Associate Professor Mqhele Dlodlo Dr Reuben Govender Associate Professor David Jacobs Associate Professor Malcolm Keswell Dr Nomusa Makhubu Dr Zethu Matebeni Dr Frank Matose Associate Professor Amit Mishra Dr Cecil Mlatsheni Associate Professor Jeff Murugan Dr Greg Petro Dr Deen Pillay A/Prof Lee-Ann Tong Mr Thando Tsotsobe Associate Professor Abimbola Windapo |
Professors
Total as of 1 January 2018: 283
(With the year of professorial appointment)
| Rebecca Ackermann | 2018 |
| Jane Alexander | 2008 | Kurt Andre April | 2006 |
| Carolyn Ardington | 2016 |
| Andrew Charles Argent | 2009 |
| Neil Philip Armitage | 2015 |
| Lillian Melinda Artz | 2019 |
| Azeem Badroodien | 2018 |
| Jeffrey Jacob Bagraim | 2012 |
| 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 |
| Linda-Gail Bekker | 2013 |
| Tunde Belle-Ochende | 2016 |
| David Benatar | 2007 |
| Stephen James Beningfield | 1993 |
| Toma Berlanda | 2015 |
| Hans Beushausen | 2017 |
| 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 |
| Frank Brombacher | 2000 |
| Irwin Thomas Brown | 2011 |
| Alan Bryer | 2018 |
| Andrew Buffler | 2014 |
| Justine Burns | 2016 |
| Anthony Michael Butler | 2012 |
| Robert Greig Cameron | 2004 |
| Claude Carignan | 2011 |
| Keith Stone Cattell | 2010 |
| Kelly Chibale | 2007 |
| Brandon Ian Collier-Reed | 2019 |
| Michael Denis Cramer | 2019 |
| Laura Czerniewicz | 2019 |
| Wallace Mankhwala Gwaza Chigona | 2015 |
| Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan | 2003 |
| Shadreck Chirikure | 2018 |
| Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa | 2012 |
| Francois Cilliers | 2018 |
| Michael Christian Claeys | 2010 |
| Malcolm Collins | 2013 |
| Marc Irwin Combrinck | 2011 |
| Imraan Coovadia | 2016 |
| Hugh Micah Corder | 1987 |
| Owen Crankshaw | 2006 |
| Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie | 2017 |
| Collet Dandara | 2016 |
| Alan Davidson | 2018 |
| Pierre Francois de Vos | 2009 |
| Petrus de Vries | 2012 |
| David Alan Deglon | 2011 |
| Lynette Ann Denny | 2006 |
| Andrea Deumert | 2016 |
| Keertan Dheda | 2012 |
| Tania Douglas | 2013 |
| Robert Neil Dunn | 2012 |
| John Paul Dunne | 2012 |
| Peter Klaus Dunsby | 2007 |
| Robert Anthony Dyer | 2011 |
| Silke Dyer | 2014 |
| Lawrence Edwards | 2013 |
| Timothy John Egan | 2006 |
| Brian Lindsay Eley | 2016 |
| Johannes Jacobus Fagan | 2002 |
| Anton Gabriel Fagan | 2006 |
| Jill Margaret Farrant | 2005 |
| Susan Fawcus | 2013 |
| Loretta Annalise Feris | 2012 |
| Anthony Graeme Fieggen | 2008 |
| Anthony Figaji | 2012 |
| Mark Jay Fleishman | 2012 |
| Jack Calvin Fletcher | 2006 |
| Komla Folly | 2016 |
| Thomas Franz | 2018 |
| James Gain | 2018 |
| Roshan Galvaan | 2018 |
| Lucy Jennifer Gilson | 2008 |
| Harry Oludare Garuba | 2019 |
| Dhirendra Govender | 2003 |
| 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 |
| Christopher Harris | 2008 |
| Susan Therese Harrison | 1999 |
| Mark Hatherill | 2017 |
| Adam Haupt | 2018 |
| Terry Albert Hedderson | 2006 |
| Bruce Charles Hewitson | 2005 |
| John Anthony Higgins | 2002 |
| Alan Hirsch | 2013 |
| Michael Timm Hoffman | 2001 |
| Michael Timm Hoffman | 2013 |
| Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr | 2010 |
| Roger Hunter | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Kemal Khan | 2008 |
| Nonhlanhla Khumalo | 2017 |
| 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 |
| Michael Ian Lambert | 2010 |
| Estelle Victoria Lambert | 2005 |
| Genevieve Sarah Langdon | 2014 |
| Franklin Larey | 2017 |
| Anton Powter le Roex | 1997 |
| Rochelle le Roux | 2011 |
| Virna Drucille Leaner | 2017 |
| Sandrine Lecour | 2017 |
| Murray Victor Leibbrandt | 2000 |
| Alison Emslie Lewis | 2007 |
| Leslie London | 2005 |
| Theresa Lorenzo | 2016 |
| Graham Johan Louw | 2008 |
| Iain Low | 2007 |
| John Manuel da Silva Luiz | 2011 |
| Christopher Alan Lund | 2015 |
| Gary Maartens | 2004 |
| Mbulungeni Ronald Madiba | 2019 |
| Aubrey Mainza | 2016 |
| Arnaud George Malan | 2014 |
| Xolela McPherson | |
| Tennyson Mangcu | 2016 |
| Rashida Manjoo | 2015 |
| Adrian David Marias | 2004 |
| Lorna Jean Martin | 2004 |
| Peter Martinez | 2015 |
| Shanaz Mathews | 2018 |
| Helen McIlleron | 2017 |
| Michael Edward Meadows | 2004 |
| Ernesta Meintjes | 2015 |
| Graeme Meintjes | 2016 |
| Peter Nicholas Meissner | 2008 |
| Marc Irwin Mendelson | 2015 |
| Rajend Mesthrie | 1998 |
| Thomas Andreas Meyer | 2015 |
| Jeremy John Midgley | 2007 |
| Valerie Mizrahi | 2011 |
| Klaus Peter Moller | 2009 |
| Jennifer Rose Moodley | 2017 |
| Brenda Morrow | 2017 |
| Hanri Mostert | 2008 |
| Thomas Moultrie | 2015 |
| Pilate Moyo | 2013 |
| Edwin Muchapondwa | 2016 |
| Nicola Jane Mulder | 2015 |
| Karin Murris | 2017 |
| Benjamin Landon Myer | 2015 |
| Kevin Jonathan Naidoo | 2011 |
| Nicoli Jean Nattrass | 1999 |
| Tjakie Naudé | 2009 |
| Pradeep Harkison Navsaria | 2015 |
| Caroline Ncube | 2016 |
| Mark George New | 2011 |
| Andrew Nicol | 2017 |
| Mark Patrick Nicol | 2008 |
| Eftychia Nikolaidou | 2019 |
| Lungisile Ntsebeza | 2008 |
| Mpiko Ntsekhe | 2013 |
| Alp Numanoglu | 2013 |
| Francis Beng Nyamnjoh | 2009 |
| Ikechi Okpechi | 2018 |
| Sophie Oldfield | 2015 |
| Mannus Justin O’Riain | 2014 |
| Jeanette Parkes | 2016 |
| Susan Parnell | 2006 |
| Alexander Ross Paterson | 2013 |
| Nigel Penn | 2012 |
| André Peshier | 2010 |
| Jochen Petersen | 2016 |
| Mamokgethi Phakeng | 2017 |
| Edgar Arther Pieterse | 2008 |
| Gordon Pirie | 2014 |
| Deborah Beatrice Posel | 2010 |
| Sharon Prince | 2016 |
| Rajkumar Ramesar | 2000 |
| Elelwani Ramugondo | 2018 |
| Maano Ramutsindela | 2015 |
| Brian Lindsay Rayner | 2015 |
| Chris James Charles Reason | 2006 |
| Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy | 1989 |
| Stephen John Young Reid | 2010 |
| Ulrike Rivett | 2016 |
| Donald Alan Ross | 2001 |
| Fiona Chiswell Ross | 2013 |
| Michael John Rossi | 2007 |
| Pieter Gerhardus Rousseau | 2015 |
| Hannah-Andrea Rother | 2018 |
| Peter Ryan | 2014 |
| Edward Peter Rybicki | 2003 |
| Philippe-Joseph Salazar (Distinguished) | 1986 |
| Rebekka Sandmeier | 2016 |
| 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 | 2019 |
| Suellen Butler Shay | 2019 |
| Catherine Wendy Nest Spearman | 2019 |
| Robert William John Simmonds | 2015 |
| Aristides Sitas | 2009 |
| Phillipa Ann Skotnes | 1999 |
| Karen Sliwa-Hahnle | 2010 |
| Dee Smythe | 2015 |
| Mark Leonard Solms | 2002 |
| Claire Spottiswoode | 2016 |
| Dan Joseph Stein | 2005 |
| Edward David Sturrock | 2008 |
| Justus Lodulph Christiaan Swanevelder | 2012 |
| Andrew Russel Taylor | 2014 |
| Abdulkader Ismail Tayob | 1999 |
| Colin Getty Tredoux | 2008 |
| Arjan Bastiaan van As | 2008 |
| Jean-Paul Willy van Belle | 2011 |
| Marianne Vanderschuren | 2018 |
| Elrena van der Spuy | 2013 |
| Maria Johanna Wilhelmina Antoine Vanderschuren | 2019 |
| Eliza Jacobus van Honk | 2014 |
| Paul van Rensburg | 2002 |
| Eric Wilhelmus J van Steen | 2002 |
| Cornelius Peter van Walbeek | 2015 |
| Jacobus Ernst van Zyl | 2014 |
| Maria Johanna Wilhelmina Antoine Vanderschuren | 2019 |
| Shahid Vawda | 2017 |
| Martine Maria Christina Visser | 2015 |
| Harro von Blottnitz | 2013 |
| Lee Alan Wallis | 2012 |
| Catherine Ward | 2018 |
| David Wardle | 2006 |
| Herman Wasserman | 2014 |
| Alexandra Watson | 2010 |
| Vanessa Jane Watson | 2003 |
| Digby Francis Warner | 2019 |
| Bernhard Weiss | 2011 |
| Anna-Lise Williamson | 2005 |
| Carolyn Williamson | 2010 |
| Joanne Wilmshurst | 2014 |
| Harald Ernst Winkler | 2011 |
| Martin Wittenberg | 2012 |
| Ambroise Wonkam | 2016 |
| Ingrid Denise Woolard | 2017 |
| Patrick Woudt | 2016 |
| Heather Joy Zar | 2008 |
| Peter Zilla | 2000 |
| Alphose Zingoni | 2003 |
| Marcus Henricus Petrus Zuidgeest | 2019 |
Information supplied by:
Office of the Registrar
Updated: 04 February 2019
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