(Institute for Democracy in South Africa) and the International Center for Transitional Justice Sir Rupert Bromley, 10th Bt. – Business executive Guy Butler – Poet Efemia Chela – writer Tafadzwa Chitokwindo – Zimbabwe Sevens rugby player Nan Cross – Anti-conscription and anti-apartheid activist Achmat Dangor – Writer Embeth Davidtz – Actress Rob Davies – Minister of trade and industry of South Africa Mick Davis – Businessman, chief executive of Xstrata Geoffrey de Jager – Philanthropist and industrialist; founder of Rand Merchant Bank K. Sello Duiker – Novelist and screenwriter Sir Michael Edwardes – Business executive Robin Esrock – Travel Writer Allan Gray – Investor and philanthropist Mluleki George – ANC MP and former prisoner on Robben Island Igle Gledhill – Physicist Chris Hani – Former leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe Errol Harris – Philosopher Trevor Hastie – Statistician Peter Hinchliff – Anglican priest and academic Humphry Knipe – Adult film writer/director Herbert Kretzmer – Fleet Street journalist and lyricist of inter alia the musical Les Misérables Alice Krige – Actress Margaret Legum – Economist and anti-apartheid activist Frances Margaret Leighton – Botanist Kai Lossgott – Interdisciplinary artist Mbuyiseli Madlanga – South African Constitutional Court judge Mandla Mandela – Chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and grandson of Nelson Mandela The Hon Justice Lex Mpati – Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa and current chancellor of Rhodes University Patrick Mynhardt – Actor Marguerite Poland – Writer Ian Roberts – Actor Michael Roberts – Historian Kathleen Satchwell – Judge Sir Basil Schonland – Scientist Barry Smith – Musician Ian Smith – Former Prime Minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Wilbur Smith – Novelist William Smith – Television science and mathematics personality Kaneez Surka – Artist, actor and comedian Robert V. Taylor – Former dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle Phumzile van Damme – MP and Shadow Communications Minister Max Theiler – Virologist, Nobel prize winner (1951) Micheen Thornycroft – Zimbabwe Olympic rower Kit Vaughan – Emeritus professor of biomedical engineering at UCT David Webster – Social anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist Mark Winkler – Author Timothy Woods – Former head of Gresham's School, England Dana Wynter – Actress Simphiwe Tshabalala – Standard Bank CEO Notable alumni: journalists, media celebrities in South Africa One of the most well-known departments on the Rhodes campus is the university's school of Journalism