Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra was a South African palaeontologist whose work focused on the mammal-like reptiles of the Middle and Late Permian, whose fossil remains are common in the South African Karoo. He was the author of a large number of papers on Therapsids and Pareiasaurs, and described and revised a number of species.
Johannes du Plessis Scholtz was a South African philologist, art historian, and art collector.
The Hertzog Prize is an annual award given to Afrikaans writers by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, formerly the South African Academy for Language, Literature and Arts. It is the most prestigious prize in Afrikaans literature.
The Taalkommissie is a subsidiary of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns that serves as the technical committee of the Nasionale Taalliggaam vir Afrikaans, which is the language regulator of the Afrikaans language. The Akademie was founded in Bloemfontein in 1909, and its branch, the Spellingskommissie, in 1914.
Hendrik Bernardus Thom was an Afrikaner professor and former Rector of the Stellenbosch University.
The Olive Schreiner Prize has been awarded annually since 1961 to emerging writers in the field of drama, prose, or poetry. It is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist. It rewards promising novice work, by writers who are not yet regarded as "established" in the genre. It rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose, and poetry. The prize for each genre is therefore triennial, and is open to work published in the three years since it was last awarded.
Carellina Pieternella (Lina) Spies is an Afrikaans poet and academic.
The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is the national science academy in South Africa. It was started in 1996, and encompasses all fields of scientific work. Its legal foundation is the Academy of Science of South Africa Act, Act 67 of 2001, which came into operation in May 2002.
The Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge is a non-profit, non-governmental Afrikaans cultural organisation. Founded in 1929, it celebrated its 85th year in 2014. Its offices are situated at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria.
Theunis Theodorus Cloete was a South African Afrikaans poet, Bible translator, essayist and academic. In the 1970s he was involved in the revision of the ''Afrikaanse Kerkgesange'' and later in the 1993 translation of the Bible. Cloete was linked to The University of Potchefstroom's School of Language and Literature. He has won numerous literary awards, including the Ingrid Jonker Prize, W.A. Hofmeyr Prize, Hertzog Prize (twice) and the Andrew Murray Prize. Cloete mostly wrote under the penname T. Jansen van Rensburg and published numerous of his poems in magazines under the penname to test the water before his 1980 debut Angelliera.
The Havenga Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns to a candidate for original research in the Sciences since 1945. Candidates are judged on the quality of research publications and evidence of the promotion of Afrikaans. The Havenga prize can only be awarded to a person once, but can be awarded posthumously.
Gordon Tomlinson was a lawyer, writer, and champion of Afrikaans.
Martha Mabel Jansen, DMS was a South African educator, writer, journalist, cultural leader, politician and pioneer in the promotion of Afrikaans, as well as the spouse of the penultimate Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, E.G. Jansen.
Kobus Geldenhuys is a South African scriptwriter and translator of children's literature into Afrikaans, including titles by J. K. Rowling, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Michael Morpurgo, David Walliams and Cressida Cowell. In 2016 he won the Alba Bouwer Prize for his translation of Morpurgo's Why the Whales Came as Hoekom die walvisse gekom het. He has also translated Tove Jansson.
Jan-Hendrik HofmeyrFRSSAf is one of the leaders in the field of metabolic control analysis and the quantitative analysis of metabolic regulation.
Jochem van Bruggen (1881–1957) was an Afrikaans author and the first winner of the Hertzog Prize for prose for his work Teleurgestel ("Disappointed") in 1917. He was part of the Second Afrikaans Language Movement and is best known for Ampie, a series about poor and destitute Afrikaners in South Africa during the Depression of 1920–1921.
Anne-Marie Beukes is a professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Johannesburg. She was the chief executive officer of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns between 2019 and 2024.
Fransjohan Pretorius is a South African historian and professor emeritus of History at the University of Pretoria. His main field is the history of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), to which he contributed many scholarly books and articles, both as an author and editor. His 1999 book, Life on Commando during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, was runner-up for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. The Afrikaans edition won three major awards. He received the Stals Prize from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns in 1998, and is a former editor of 'Historia', the journal of the South African Historical Association.
Jan Bouws (1902-1978) was a Dutch-born musicologist and folk music scholar, renowned for his significant contributions to the study and preservation of South African folk music. He was instrumental in the establishment and development of South African musicology through both his work as educator and researcher, often being described as “one of the pioneers of South African musicology”.
S.P.E. Boshoff was a South African Afrikaner linguist, writer, adapter of plays and promoter of the use of the Afrikaans language.
