HONORIS CAUSA RECIPIENTS 1981 – 2021

Honoris Causa RECIPIENTS 1983 – 2021

1983

S. Motsuenyane Doctor Commercii M. O’Dowd Doctor Commercii 1984

E. Theron Doctor Legum 1987

B. Breytenbach Doctor Litterarum

R. van der Ross Doctor Educationis Author, educationist, social activist and the fi rst black rector of UWC.

1989

J.C. de Villiers Doctor Scientiae G. Mbeki Doctor Philosophiae 1990

N.R. Mandela Doctor Legum Rivonia trialist, political prisoner, ANC President and President of the fi rst democratically elected government of South Africa. One of four South Africans to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

O.R. Tambo Doctor Legum

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1991

R. Alexander Simons Doctor Commercii

G. Machel Doctor Legum First Mozambican Minister of Education and Culture, member of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and The Elders, and an international advocate for human rights.

D. Mitterrand Doctor Litterarum D. Zihlangu Doctor Educationis

1993

G. Boonzaier Doctor Litterarum B. Head Doctor Litterarum (posthumous)

A. Ibrahim Doctor Litterarum Famous as Dollar Brand before his conversion to Islam, he is an awardwinning, innovative jazz pianist, composer and international recording artist.

E. Mancoba Doctor Litterarum

1995

G.J. Gerwel Doctor Educationis UWC lecturer and department head who became Rector in 1987.

P. Sonn Doctor Legum 1996

G.H. Brundtland Doctor Legum T.N. Chapman Doctor Commercii J.J. Durand Doctor Philosophiae P. Gorvalla Doctor Commercii

1997

B. Davidson Doctor Litterarum E.L. King Doctor Theologiae

I. Mohamed Doctor Scientiae Mathematician and antiapartheid activist. While head of the Mathematics Department at UWC in 1976, was detained and held in Victor Verster prison for 15 weeks. Aside from an illustrious career at several African universities, he made important contributions to group theory.

B. Naudé Doctor Theologiae J.N. Scholten Doctor Legum

1997

R. Turner Doctor Educationis (posthumous) 1998

J. Derrida Doctor Litterarum M. Nuttall Doctor Theologiae M.A. Oduyoye Doctor Theologiae

J. Reddy Doctor Educationis Served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durban-Westville, Chair of the Durban University of Technology Council and Director of the United Nations University International Leadership Institute.

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2001

V. Faigle Doctor Theologiae G. ‘t Hooft Doctor Scientiae

P.N. Langa Doctor Legum Served as Constitutional Court judge (1994–2001), Deputy Chief Justice (2001–2005) and Chief Justice of South Africa (2005–2009).

A. Small Doctor Litterarum W.H. Gray Doctor Philosophiae C. Hirschsohn Doctor Philosophiae T. Manuel Doctor Commercii

2002

D. Philip Doctor Litterarum M. Philip Doctor Litterarum

D.M. Tutu Doctor Legum General secretary of the SA Council of Churches, Bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town. Nobel Peace prize recipient in 1984. He was Chancellor of UWC from 1987 to 2011.

2003

K. Mokhele Doctor Scientiae T.D. Fredericks Doctor Educationis P-D. Uys Doctor Educationis

2004

K. Asmal Doctor Legum E. de Keyser Doctor Commercii (posthumous) G. Fitzgerald Doctor Litterarum

A. Omar Doctor Legum (posthumous) An advocate who defended many antiapartheid activists, he was the leader of the Unity Movement before becoming a patron of the UDF. He served as democratic South Africa’s fi rst Minister of Justice and as Minister of Transport.

2004

A. Sachs Doctor Litterarum

A. Sisulu Doctor Curationis Founding member of the ANC Women’s League and FEDSAW. She was the co-president of the UDF, a Pietermaritzburg treason trialist in 1985 and later a member of Parliament.

W. Sisulu Doctor Legum (posthumous) 2005

A. Achmat Doctor Philosophiae C. Bundy Doctor Philosophiae

2005

E.K.M. Dido Doctor Litterarum T. Jones Doctor Philosophiae J.J. Fagan Doctor Legum I. Mahomed Doctor Legum (posthumous) 2006

F.N. Ginwala Doctor Administrationis After serving the ANC in exile for 30 years in various capacities, she was the Speaker of the National Assembly from 1994 to 2004 when she retired. In her retirement, she served as the fi rst Chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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2007

E. Abrahams Doctor Philosophiae E. Braune Doctor Philosophiae

A. Chaskalson Doctor Legum A member of the defence team at the Rivonia treason trial, he was President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005.

D. Jordaan Doctor Philosophiae R. Kadalie Doctor Litterarum

2007

P. Mlambo-Ngcuka Doctor Philosophiae Deputy minister in the Department of Trade and Industry (1996–1999), Minister of Minerals and Energy (1999–June 2005), Deputy President of South Africa (2005–2008), and Executive Director of UN Women (2013–2021).

Y. Mokgoro Doctor Legum V. Shubin Doctor Philosophiae 2008

W. Morrow Doctor Educationis

2009

P. Govender Doctor Legum Author, feminist and anti-apartheid activist, member of the National Assembly (1996–2002) and SAHRC Commissioner and Deputy Chair (2009–2015).

2010

A. Adebajo Doctor Philosophiae M.S. Dien Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous) B. Fanaroff Doctor Philosophiae

2010

P. Olufemi-Kayode Doctor Philosophiae R. Simonsen Doctor Philosophiae P.K. Tergat Doctor Philosophiae D. Tulu Doctor Philosophiae 2011

S.B. Biko Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous) An anti-apartheid student activist and leader of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa during the late 1960s and 1970s who was murdered by apartheid police in 1977.

2011

S. Isaacs Doctor Educationis P. Magrath Doctor Litterarum M. Shear Doctor Philosophiae

M. Temmerman Doctor Philosophiae Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women, Child and Adolescent Health (AKU East Africa) and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Ghent University in Belgium.

R.P. Wolff Doctor Philosophiae

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2012

B. Gawanas Doctor Legum E. Moosa Doctor Legum R. Reddock Doctor Philosophiae H.D. Shaper Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous) A. Sheiham Doctor Philosophiae 2013

H. Howa Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous) A co-founder of the South African Cricket Board of Control who advocated the sports isolation of apartheid South Africa under the slogan ‘no normal sport in an abnormal society’.

2013

A. Jones Doctor Philosophiae J. Matthews Doctor Philosophiae G. Gutiérrez Merino Doctor Theologiae 2014

A. Haron Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous) The Imam of the Al-Jamia Mosque in Claremont, Cape Town. He established the openly anti-apartheid community newspaper Muslim News.

2015

A. Jedaar Doctor Philosophiae 2016

H. Adams Doctor Philosophiae

2016

F. Robertson Doctor Philosophiae Co-founder of Brimstone Investment Corp and Chair of the UWC Foundation.

M. Tsedu Doctor Philosophiae 2017

A.M. Lapsley Doctor Philosophiae 2018

Z. Skweyiya Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous) 2021

Z. Wicomb Doctor Philosophiae A. Boesak Doctor Philosophiae W. Kentridge Doctor Philosophiae