Nelson Mandela – Platinum (national reconciliation and nation-building) Allan McLeod Cormack (posthumously) – Gold (for achievements in CT scanning) F. W. de Klerk – Gold (national reconciliation and nation-building) Basil Schonland (posthumously) – Gold (physicist and founding president of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Peter Beighton – Bronze (research into the inherited disorders of the skeleton) Hamilton Naki – Bronze (medical science)