Former Presidents, Ministers and MP’s
1. President TM Mbeki, Former President of the Republic of South Africa and Patron of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation.
2. President Kgalema Motlanthe, Former South African President
3. Pallo Jordan, Former Cabinet Minister
4. Essop Pahad, Former Cabinet Minister in the Presidency
5. Geraldine J. Fraser-Moleketi, Former Cabinet Minister Public Service and Administration
6. Derek Hanekom, Former Cabinet Minister
7. Rob Davies, Former Cabinet Minister
8. Ronald Kasril, Former Cabinet Minister
9. Sydney Mufamadi, Former Cabinet Minister
10. Valli Moosa, Former Cabinet Minister
11. Loretta Jacobus, Former Deputy Minister
12. Jeremy Cronin, Former Deputy Minister and Poet
13. Aziz Pahad, Former Deputy Minister
14. Fatima Hajaig, Former Dep Minister Foreign Affaires, Pan African Parl
15. Pregs Govender, Former Human Rights Commission, Former MP
16. Ismail Coovadia, Former Ambassador to Israel
17. Lindiwe Mabuza, Former Ambassador, Poet
18. Shoyab Casso, Former Consul General
19. Garth Strachan, Former MEC, DDG Department of Trade & Industry
20. Ismail Vadi, Former MP and Gauteng MEC for Transport
21. Janet Love, Former MP, Struggle Veteran, HR Commissioner
22. Shepherd Mayatula, Former MP
23. Nozipho January-Bardill , Former Ambassador
24. Mohammed Dangor, Former Ambassador, National Council of Provinces
25. Anthony Mongalo, Former Ambassador
26. Ashraf Suliman, Former Ambassador to Palestine; Dir: Dept of Int Rel and Cooperation
27. Josiah Jele, Former Ambassador to UN
28. Iqbal Jhazbhay, Ambassador
29. Mokgethi Monaisa, Former Ambassador
30. Goolam Aboobaker, Struggle Veteran, ex DDG in the Office of the President
31.Ebrahim Rasool, Former Ambassador and Premier Western Cape
Art and Culture
1. Jonathan «Zapiro» Shapiro, Cartoonist
2. Mongane Wally Serote, National Poet Laureate
3. Muff Andersson, Author
4. Andy «The Admiral» Kasrils, DJ and musician
5. Anthony Akerman, Playwright
6. Bridget Thompson, Film Maker/Educationist
7. Carlos Sérgio Monteiro Ferreira, Angolan writer, Former Prog Dir National Radio, Angola
8. Jeremy Karodia, Musician
9. Jane Lipman, Film Maker
10. Mark Palmos, Video production
11. George Tobias, Artist
12. Enver Motala, Centre Education Rights and Transformation, UJ
13. Robbie Thorpe, Film Producer
14. Leonard Shapiro, Artist
15. Ferdoze Bulbulia, Film Maker
16. Sahm Venter, Author
17. Nick Feinberg, Radio Presenter and Creative Director
18. Ivan Strasburg, Movie cameraman
19. Inayet Wadee, Radio – Salaamedia
Political Representatives and Government
1. Blade Nzimande, General Secretary SACP and Government Minister
2. Lechesa Tsenoli, Deputy Speaker, National Assembly
3. Zwelivelile «Mandla» Mandela MP, Chief Mvezo Traditional Council (grandson Nelson Mandela)
4. Mosia «Terror» Lekota MP, President of Congress of the People (COPE)
5. Jessie Duarte, Deputy Secretary General ANC
6. Solly Mapaila, Deputy General Secretary, SACP
7. South African Communist Party, SACP – organisational endorsement
8. Louise Colvin,m GovT Official (Ret), Activist and Environmental Affairs
9. Jenny Schreiner, State official (Ret)
10. Febe Potgieter,m ANC General Manager
11. Ivan Pillay, Retired civil servant and Struggle Veteran
12. Jameel Chand, Group Chief Operating Officer GGDA
13. Mavuso Msimang, Former DG Home Affairs
14. Lulama Ngcukayithobi, ANC Eastern Cape Provincial Secretary
15. Shoayb Cas, Department International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO)
16. Xolile Nqatha, SACP Prov Sec EC, MEC for Co-op Govern and Traditional Affairs
17. Omry Makgoale, nANC
18. Dali Mpofu EFF, Central Committee, Advocate
19. Vashna Jagarnath (Dr), Dep GS Socialists Revolutionary Workers’ Party and Res Assoc UJ
20. Shaheen Khan, Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party
21. Abdul Minty, Diplomat
22. Miriam Saohatse, ANC International Rel, Co-Convenor International Solidarity
23.Zane Dangor, Former Director General
24. Fawzia Peer, Councillor, Former Dep Mayor Ethekweni Municipality
Human Rights Activists
1. Andrew Mlangeni, Rivonia Trialist, Struggle Veteran
2. Sophie de Bruyn, Struggle Veteran, A leader: Womens March 1956
3. Makoma Lekalakala, Environmental Activist
4. Sibusiso Innocent Zikode, President: Abahlali baseMjondol – Shack Dweller’s Movement
5. Gugu Motlanthe, Trustee Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation
6. Neeshan Balton, Ahmed Kathrada Foundation
7. Mark Heywood, Human Rights, Struggle Veteran
8. Mercia Andrews, Human Rights, Struggle Veteran
9. Navi Pillay, Former UN High Commissioner Human Rights.
10. Fazel Randera, Veteran ANC Activist, Medical Doctor
11. Lawson Naidoo, Executive Secretary, Council Advancement of the Constitution
12. Nicholas Wolpe, CEO Liliesleaf Trust.
13. Colin Smuts, CEO Nadine Gordimer Foundation
14. Firoza Mayet, Human Rights Activist, Member of the Palestine Solidarity Alliance
15. Judy Favish, Struggle Veteran
16. Marcus Solomon, Veteran and ex-Robben Islander
17. Terry-Crawford Brown, World Beyond War—South Africa
18. Andries du Toit, Director: Institute Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
19. Y. Saloogee (Dr), Stuggle Veteran
20. Alexander Moumbaris, Struggle Veteran
21. Barry Feinberg, Struggle Veteran
22. Na’eem Jennah, Afro-Middle East Centre
23. Roshan Dadoo, Migrant Rights activist
24. Edward Cottle, Human Rights Activist
25. Laurentia Richer, Struggle Veteran
26. Maria Ingouville Burton, Struggle Veteran
27. Joan Brickhill, Struggle Veteran
28. Marie-José Moumbaris, Struggle Veteran
29. Mohuddin Khan, Struggle Veteran
30. Patrick Mangashe, Struggle Veteran
31. Pingla Udit , Struggle Veteran
32. Stephanie Kemp, Struggle veteran
33. Yunus Ahmed, Struggle Veteran
34. Naazim Adams, Struggle Veteran
35. Simon Mohale, Struggle Veteran
36. Muna Sheriff, Human Rights Activist
37. Farid Esack (Professor), Africa for Palestine, UJ
38. Claudia Hodgson, Struggle Veteran
39. Anwah Nagia (Doctor), Chairperson Palestine Museum
40. Brian Ashley, Director AIDC
41. Brian Isaacs, Stuggle Veteran
42. Di Oliver, Social Activist
43. Fatima Bulbulia, Human Rights Activist
44. Hafez Sadeck, Struggle Activist
45. Hassen Lorgat, Human Rights Activist
46. Hoosain Ismail Mahomedy, Community leader, Kwa-Zulu Natal
47. Meg Pahad, Educator and Struggle Veteran
48. Mohamed Timol, Struggle Activist
49. Moira Levy, Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA)
50. Sue Rabkin, Struggle Veteran
51. Phaldi Adams, Retired Citizen of South Africa
52. Rifat Kassis, Struggle Activist
53. Rina King, Struggle Veteran
54. Sagie Pillay, Struggle Activist
55. Tess Peacock, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity
56. Vanessa Burger, Independent Community Activist, Human Rights & Social Justice
57. Vernon Weitz, Civil Society Activist
58. Yasmin Omar, Struggle Activist
59. Abdurrahmaan Mohamed, Struggle Activist
60. Christopher Hemson, Struggle Activist
61. Crecentia Mofokeng, Regional Rep, BWI Africa & Middle East
62. Fred Hendricks, Author
63. Zohra Ebrahim, Human rights activist
64. Shereen Usdin (Dr), Struggle Veteran
65. Organisational Endorsement, Al Kaaf Human Rights Centre and Palestine Museum
66. Yasmin Louise Sooka, Desmond Tutu Peace Centre Trustee
67. Hanif Vally, Director: Foundation for Human Rights
68. Itumeleng Moabi, Activist and Academic
69. Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, Activist
70. Maria van Driel (Dr), Activist, Khanya College
71. Oupa Lehulere, Activist, Khanya College
72. Samed Bulbulia, Human Rights Activist
73. Clever Banganayi, Friends of Cuba Society
74. Tauriq Jenkins, Activist
75. Zubeida Jaffer, Struggle Veteran /Journalist / Author
76. Joan Brickhill, Struggle Veteran
77. Mosie Moolla, Struggle Veteran
78. Zain Bulbulia, Disability activist
79. Carol Martin, Social Activist
80. Trevor Ngwane, Scholar activist
81. Aneesha Mayet, Human Rights Activist
82. Thabiso Motaung, ANC Member
83. Sultan Somjee (Dr), Founder peace museums in Global South
84. Iqbal Jassat, Media Review Network
85. Sydda Essop, Human Rights Activist
86. Happy Mwende Kinyili, African Feminist
87. Wiesahl Abrahams, Activist
88. Nuhaa Hendricks, Student activist
89. Jeremy Phillips, Human rights activist, LLM Candidate, University of Fort Hare
90. Fatima Rahiman, Human Rights Activist
91. Horst Kleinschmidt, Human Rights Activist
Judiciary
1. Zakeria Mohammed Yacoob, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Ret
2. Siraj Desai, High Court Judge, Western Cape
3. Gadija Kahn, Regional Court President and acting Judge
4. Shaa’ista Bulbulia, Attorney
5. Jameel Patel, Attorney
6. Ziyaad Patel, Attorney
Military
1. Siphiwe Nyanda, Commander South African National Defence Force (SANDF), Ret
2. Zolile Ngcakani, Inspector General Intelligenc, Ret
3. Jackie Sedibe, General, Ret SANDF
4. Rashid Aboobaker, ISMAIL General, Ret SANDF
5. Sandi Sijake, General, Ret SANDF
6. Dieter Felix Gerhardt, Rear Admiral South African Navy, Ret
7. Patricia O’Brian, Brig-General, Ret, Centre for Education Rights and Transformation
8. Claire Bless, Brig-General, Ret
Professional
1. Spencer Hodgson, Architect, Struggle veteran
2. Amina Frense , Journalist
3.Bashir Ahmed Mahomed, Businessman
4. Farahnaz Abrahams, Business Analyst
5. Ishvara, Tour Operator
6. Ellen Elmendorp, Photographer
7. Amina Hendricks, Natural Health Care practitioners
8. Ebrahim Nana, Natural Health Care practitioners
9. Gabriele Mohale, Archival Activist
10. Fadzhielah Byatt, Medical Doctor
11. Ghalib Khan, Chartered Accountant
12. Hillary Hamburger, Psychoanalyst
13. Joyce Leeson, Medical Doctor
14. Kader Khatieb, Chartered Accountant
15. Malcolm Campbell, Architect
16. Mogamat Goosain, Chartered Municipal Accountant
17. Naweed Hassen, CEO
18. Raza Mukadam, Mechanical Technician
19. Robbie Potenza, Doctor HR Activist
20. Umesh Lalloo Bawa, Director International Relations, Clinical Psychologist
21. Zaheer Jadwat, Dentist
22. Abdool Gaffar, Health Practitioner
23. Ahmed Petker, Business
24. Shannon Ebrahim, Journalist
25. Farid Sayed, Editor Muslim News
26. Suzanne Hotz, Clinical Psychologist
27. Sidra Ahmed, Medical Doctor
28. Ashraf Abrahams, Technician
29. Mxolisi Notshulwana, Infrastructure specialist
30. Ahmed Omar, Systems Architect
31. Tony Hamburger, Psychologist
Sport
1. Leigh-Ann Naidoo, Social Activist, Olympic Athlete
2. Fareed Abrahams, Sports Administrator
3. Kamil Suleiman, Runners for Palestine, Marathon
4. Andre Odendaal, Sports administrator and historian
5. Safoudien Bester, Runners for Palestine, Marathon
Trade Union
1. Irvin Jim, General Secretary: National Union of Metal Workers SA (NUMSA).
2. Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary South African FederationTrade Unions
3. Mugwena John Maluleke, General Secretary Teachers Union (SADTU)
4. Stephen Faulkner, Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union
5. NUMSA, Organisational Endorsement
6. COSATU, Organisational Endorsement:General Secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali
7. Sonia Mabunda-Kaziboni, COSATU, International Secretary
8. Naadira Munshi, Trade Unionist
9. Jacques Cupido, Nehawu Northern Cape Chair; Cosatu NC Deputy Chairperson
10. Karl Cloete, Deputy General Secretary NUMSA
11. Nkosinathi Jikeka, NUMSA Sedibeng Education Officer, United Front Nat Co-ordinator
12. John Appolis, GIWUSA union official
13. Keith Jacobs, UNI global Union
MAURITIUS
- Cassam Uteem Former President of the Republic
2. Jameel Patel Attorney
3. Azad Dhomun Director General Mauritius Bank Federale de Commerce
4. Kay Da Hall Health professional
5. Fazila Da Hall Journalist
Civil Society
- Haniff Peerun President, Mauritius Labour Congress & All Workers’ Federation
2. Vinod Seegum President, Confederation of General Trade unions
3. Reeaz Chuttoo President, Confederation des Travailleurs des Secteurs Publique et Privé
4. Deepak Benydin President, Federation of Parastatal Bodies and Other union
5. Mosadeq Sahebdin President, Consumer Advocacy Platform
6. Samad Abdus Dulloo Councellor, Dr. Idrice Goomany Treatment Centre
7. Ragini Kistnasamy Activist, Muvman Liberasyon Fam (Women’s Liberation Movement)
8. Alain Ah Vee Activist LALIT
9. Lindsey Collen Writer and Activist
10. Chagos Refugee Group
Other African Country Endorsements
1. Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice & President Supreme Court, Republic of Kenya, 2011-2016.
2. George Kegoro, Executive Director of Kenya Human Rights Commission
3. Teodato Hunguana, Former Minister of Justice and Information, Mozambique
4. Oscar Monteiro, Former Cabinet Minister of State Administration, Mozambique
5. Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice & President Supreme Court, Rep of Kenya, 2011-2016.
6. Herbert Jauch, Trade Unionist Namibia
7. Lucy Edwards-Jauch, University of Namibia
8. Leonida Odongo, Social Justice activist, Kenya
9. Mavis A. Koogotsitse, SATUCC, Executive Secretary, Botswana
10. Abubakar Zein, Former East African Legislative Assem, Chair Regional Affairs & Conflict Res
11. Shailja Patel, Writer, Kenya
12. Revolutionary Socialist League, Organisational Endorsement, Kenya
13. Walter B. Bgoya, CEO Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania. Formerly, Tanzania Foreign Service Officer
14. Marjorie Mbilinyi, University of Dar es Salaam, Member TGNP, HakiElimu, REPOA, Ret
15. Phil Wilmot, Founder, Solidarity Uganda
16. Ambi jibrin Muhammad, NGO Nigeria
17. Ochievara Olungah, Pan-Afrikan revolutionary activist
18. Faith Isiakpere, Film Maker – Nigeria and South Africa
19. Issa G. Shivji, Public Law, University of Dar es Salaam
20. Abdulqadir A Nasser, Kenya Palestine Solidarity Movement
21. Amil Shivji, Tanzanian Filmmaker
22. Anabela Lemos, Justiça Ambiental
23. Justiça Ambiental , Organisational Endorsement
24.Boaz Waruku, Civil Rights and Social Justice Activist, Kenya