Name DoB - DoD Notes Milner Langa Kabane 18 June 1900 – 1945 Educator, First Native Principal at Lovedale College, South African Politician, S.A. Bill of Rights pioneer: 1943.[6][7][8] Z. K. Matthews 20 October 1901 – 11 May 1968 Lectured at Fort Hare from 1936 to 1959 Archibald Campbell Jordan 30 October 1906 – 20 October 1968 Novelist, pioneer of African studies Govan Mbeki 9 July 1910 – 30 August 2001 South African politician Yusuf Lule 10 April 1912 – 21 January 1985 Interim president of Uganda 1979 Cedric Phatudi 27 May 1912 – 7 October 1987 Former Chief Minister of Lebowa 1972–1987 Kaiser Matanzima 15 June 1915 – 15 June 2003 President of bantustan Transkei Mary Malahlela 2 May 1916 – 8 May 1981 First female black doctor in South Africa Oliver Tambo 27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993 African National Congress activist, expelled while doing his second degree Nelson Mandela 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013 Former President of South Africa; expelled and later attended the University of the Witwatersrand but did not graduate Charles Njonjo 23 January 1920 – Former Attorney General of Kenya and Former Minister of Justice in Kenya Lionel Ngakane 17 July 1920 – 26 November 2003 South African film maker Seretse Khama 1 July 1921 – 13 July 1980 First President of Botswana Julius Nyerere 19 July 1922 – 14 October 1999 First President of Tanzania Herbert Chitepo 15 June 1923 – 18 March 1975 ZANU leader Robert Mugabe 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019 Former President of Zimbabwe, attended 1949–1951 Kenneth Kaunda 28 April 1924 – First President of Zambia Can Themba 21 June 1924 -1968 South African writer and one of the "Drum Boys" who worked for Drum (a magazine for urban black people Robert Sobukwe 5 December 1924 – 27 February 1978 Founder of the Pan Africanist Congress Alfred Nzo 19 June 1925 – 13 January 2000 South African politician Munyua Waiyaki 12 December 1926 – 26 April 2017 former Kenyan Minister for Foreign Affairs Allan Hendrickse 22 October 1927 – 16 March 2005 Politician, preacher, and teacher Mangosuthu Buthelezi 27 August 1928 – Leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, never graduated but transferred to University of Natal.