Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Desmond TuTu
1984
1996 The prize was awarded jointly to: CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
Grameen Bank of Bangladesh
Desmond Tutu was archbishop of South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
The first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Kim Dae-jung from South Korea in 2000. He was recognized for his efforts in promoting peace and democracy in South Korea and for his reconciliation efforts with North Korea.
Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He shared the award with former South African president F. W. de Klerk for their roles in unifying and bring peaceful change to South Africa (post Apartheid)
The Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 2003 was awarded to South African author J.M. Coetzee. He was recognized for his "well-crafted composition, pregnant with meaning, while at the same time saturated with a deceptive simplicity" in his novels.
Frederik Willem de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, which he shared with Nelson Mandela, for their efforts in ending apartheid in South Africa and working towards a peaceful transition to a democratic society.
Nelson Mandela was a prisoner in South Africa during apartheid. Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. After apartheid Mandela was elected South Africa's new president.
South Africa
Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Nelson Mandela & F. W. De Klerk. They were joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
Desmond TuTu
Sydney Brenner was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 2002. He shared the award with H Robert Horvitz and John Sulston. He also was awarded the Dan David Prize in the same year.
Nadine Gordimer is first South African and the seventh woman to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1991.