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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet

Governor-General of South Africa (1873-1960)

South African tennis player (1860–1940)

Dutch lawyer (1865–1899)

E. J. P. Jorissen

Dutch theologian, lawyer and politician

Edward Philip Solomon

South African politician

Christoffel Brand

South African politician

Morris Alexander

South African Jewish politician (1877–1946)