| Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General, United Nations |
| His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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Dr. Alex Boraine, Chairperson and Director, International Center for Transitional Justice
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| Nadine Gordimer, Writer, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Dr. Vinodh Jaichand, (Deputy Director of Irish Centre for Human Rights) |
| David Koloane, artist, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Cecil Skotnes, artist, South Africa |
| Azaria Mbatha, artist, Lund, Sweden |
| Mira Nair, Filmmaker, India |
| Shabana Azmi, Filmmaker, India |
| Breyten Breytenbach, writer, artist, South Africa |
| Prof. David McQuoid Mason, president, Commonwealth Legal Education Association, South Africa |
| Wole Soyinka, Poet Laureate |
| Dr. F. van Zyl Slabbert, ex-politician, human rights activist, South Africa |
| Bernard Noël, poet, France |
| Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Laureate, Myanmar |
| Prof. Mazisi Kunene, artist, poet, Durban, South Africa |
| Michigan State University |
| Amnesty International |
| Danielle Mitterrand, France Libertés, Paris, France |
| Prof. Edward Said, New York City, USA |
| Pierre Sané, Secretary General, Amnesty International, London, UK |
| Albie Sachs, Justice of the Constitutional Court, Pretoria, South Africa |
| Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, South Africa |
| Mac Maharaj, former National Minister of Transport, South Africa |
| Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations |
| Catherine Blondeau, Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud |
| José Ramos-Horta, East Timor Resistance Movement, Nobel laureate |
| Helen Suzman, ex-politician, human rights activist, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Prof. Ben Khoapa, (Board member of Lawyers for Human Rights) |
| Marlene Dumas, Artist, Amsterdam, Holland |
| Prof. David Philips, Executive Director, International Conflict Resolution programme, Columbia University, New York City, USA |
| Marjorie Jobson, Training Manager, Human Rights Institute of South Africa |
| Edouard J. Maunick, writer, Pretoria, South Africa |
| Ruth Mompati, Ambassador to South Africa, Switzerland |
| Judge Richard J. Goldstone, Justice of the Constitutional Court, Pretoria, South Africa |
| Judge Hassan Mall, Chancellor, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa |
| Prof. Mapule F.Ramashala, (Former Vice Chancellor, now defunct University of Durban Westville |
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