Cape Town personalities such as Nobel Peace Prize winners - former President FW de Klerk and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Another Nobel prize winner, this time for Literature, is the secretive J.M Coetzee.  

First African in Space and internet billionaire is Mark Shuttleworth.

Funnymen adding their own brand of humour to Cape Town are: comedian Mark Lottering, 'cultural terrorist’ Zebulon Dread, and drag artist Pieter-Dirk Uys.

Cape Town rugby icon Bobby Skinstad co-owns Billy the Bums on Main Road by Newlands Rugby Stadium. Fellow rugby star James Small and girlfriend Christina Storm, keep the Clifton set on their toes.

For a much more detialed guide, please refer to section "polictal leaders & celebreties" in our Passport travel guide, which you can order here.  

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