Wayne Alexander (chief director, Regional Land Claims Commission WC), South Africa

Esther Mahlangu (Ndebele artist), South Africa

Shaun Johnson 1960–2020 (journalist & former CEO of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation), South Africa

Diana Ferrus 1953–2026 (writer & poet), South Africa

Neo Muyanga (composer), South Africa

Florian Coulmas (linguist), Germany

Cyril Ramaphosa (President of SA) & Katrina Esau (last N/uu speaker), South Africa [Photo courtesy of PanSALB]

Julia Sallabank (linguist), UK

Virginia Mackenny (artist & curator), South Africa

Karin Brynard (journalist & crime fiction writer), South Africa

Nicholas Ostler (researcher & writer), UK

Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg (advisor at UNESCO Paris), France

Anet Pienaar-Vosloo (co-founder of Truth First) & Ton Vosloo (former director & chair of Naspers), South Africa

Francis Galloway (editor & scholar), South Africa & Breyten Breytenbach 1939–2024 (writer & poet), France, Spain & Dominique Enthoven (writer), South Africa

Jan & Eileen Drotsky (Drotsky's Cabins), Botswana

Karel Nel (artist & curator) & Elizabeth Burroughs (teacher & writer), South Africa

James Suzman (anthropologist & writer), UK & Mike Taylor (anthropologist & director of ILC-IFAD), Italy & Botswana (both Anthropos Africa)

Barbara Ischinger (former director for education at the OECD), Germany & Arno Morenz (Lettrist Art Collection), Germany

David Percy Ambrose (leading Lesotho expert), South Africa

Eliza Kentridge (artist), UK & Mark Solms (neuropsychoanalyst), South Africa & UK

Tshiamo Judge (Mababe activist), Botswana

Volker Grellmann 1942–2019 (wildlife conservationist & professional hunter), Namibia

Helene Mertens (guide at Tswalu), South Africa

Bernd Heine (linguist), Germany

Willie & Annatjie de Graaff (farmer & wildlife conservationist), Botswana

Robert J. Gordon (anthropologist), USA

Malcolm Payne & Louise Linder (artists), South Africa & Switzerland

Letebele Masemola-Jones (producer & media manager of Parliament SA), South Africa

Masahide Ishihara (linguist), Japan

Lenore Grenoble (linguist), USA

Charité van Rijswijk & Edu van Rijswijk & Haffie Strauss 1943–2026 (Traveller's Rest), South Africa

Francis Hweshe & Helena Steenkamp & Davison Mudzingwa (creative team of 'Lost Tongue'), South Africa

Mònica Pereña (director of Linguapax), Spain

Patrick Heinrich (linguist), Italy

Omar Badsha (photographer & anti-apartheid activist), South Africa

Amos Mulaudzi (National Heritage Council) & Katrina Esau (last N/uu speaker) & Siseko Ntshanga (National Heritage Council) & David van Wyk (N/uu activist), South Africa

Stephen Gill (former director of the Morija Museum & Archives), Lesotho

Marius Coqui (project manager at SADiLaR), South Africa

Andrew Corbett (former director of the Legal Assistance Centre & acting judge of the High Court), Namibia

Richard Astor (philanthropist), South Africa

Colette Grinevald (linguist), France

Katrina Esau (last N/uu speaker) & Claudia Snyman (granddaughter of Katrina Esau) & David van Wyk (N/uu activist), South Africa

Margaret Courtney-Clarke (photographer & photojournalist), Namibia

David Lewis-Williams (archaeologist), South Africa

Janette Deacon (archaeologist), South Africa

Mary-Ann Prins (N/uu student), South Africa

Alice Lee (actor) & Gareth Healy (Investment Lead at Tenzing), UK

Onthusitse Tshotlego (CKGR activist), Botswana

Eberhard Albin Hofmann (former chief editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung), Namibia

Andreas Peschke (German ambassador for South Africa, Lesotho & Eswatini), South Africa

Simon Donnelly (Catholic priest, linguist & interpreter for Pope Francis), South Africa

Lebuajoang Ramokhele (vice-president of the Phuthi association), Lesotho

Bhibo Maruping-Kgari (indigenous rights advocate), Botswana