Editing List of South Africans (section)

===Academics===
{{See also|List of South African university chancellors and vice-chancellors|l1=Chancellors and vice-chancellors}}
*[[Shulamith Behr]], art historian (1946–2023)
*[[Estian Calitz]], academic (born 1949)
*[[Jakes Gerwel]], academic and anti-apartheid activist (1946–2012)
*[[Adam Habib]], political scientist (born 1965)
*[[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)|Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr]], academic and politician (1894–1948)
*[[Thamsanqa Kambule]], South African Mathematician and Educator (1921–2009)
*[[Tshilidzi Marwala]], academic and businessman (born 1971)
*[[Revil Mason]], archeologist (1929–2020) 
*[[Shula Marks]], historian (born 1938) 
*[[Njabulo Ndebele]], Principal of the University of Cape Town (born 1948)
*[[D. C. S. Oosthuizen]], philosopher (1926–1968)
*[[Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer|Adriaan N. P. Pelzer]], historian and Vice-Principal University Pretoria (1915–1981)
*[[Michiel Daniel Overbeek]], South African [[amateur astronomy|amateur astronomer]] and prolific [[variable star]] [[observational astronomy|observers]] (1920–2001)
*[[Pierre de Villiers Pienaar]], pioneering role in speech language therapy and lexicography in South Africa (1904–1978)
*[[Calie Pistorius]], academic and Principal of the University of Pretoria (born 1958)
*[[Milton Shain]], academic and professor of Modern Jewish history at the University of Cape Town (born 1949)
*[[Benedict Wallet Vilakazi]], author, educator, and first [[black people|black]] South African to receive a PhD (1906–1947)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/vilakazi-bw.htm|title=Dr. Benedict Wallet Vilakazi|last=Anonymous|date=17 February 2011|work=South African History Online|access-date=14 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220011814/http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/vilakazi-bw.htm|archive-date=20 December 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[David Webster (anthropologist)|David Webster]], anthropologist (1945–1989)