Patrons of the DHC
Current as at March 2022.
Update March 2025: The DHC acknowledges that this list is out of date. It is being reviewed.
- Rt Rev Mandla Jwara CMM, Archbishop of Durban (Chief Patron)
- Professor Hoosen ‘Jerry’ Coovadia, internationally renowned expert on HIV/AIDS and paediatrics
- Most Rev Kevin Dowling CSsR, retired Bishop of Rustenburg and a second cousin of Archbishop Hurley
- Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and former Chancellor of Durban University of Technology
- Jeremy Hurley, nephew of Denis Hurley (Australia)
- Advocate AB Mahomed SC
- Mary Kluk, founder Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Vice-President World Jewish Congress
- Rt Rev Purity Malinga, Presiding Bishop, Methodist Church of Southern Africa
- AV Mahomed, Chair of the Juma Musjid, Durban
- Paddy Meskin, former President of the World Council of Religions for Peace
- Wilfrid, Cardinal Napier OFM, retired Archbishop of Durban
- Justice Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Elizabeth Mkame, retired community worker, Clermont
- Bishop Rubin Phillip, Emeritus Bishop of Natal
- Stephen Saad, Chair, Aspen Pharmacare
- Justice Leona Theron, member of South African Constitutional Court
- Rev Michael Vorster, former Methodist Bishop of the Natal Coastal District
- Mikaela York (née Hurley), niece of Denis Hurley
Deceased Patrons:
- Professor Fatima Meer, noted activist
- Elizabeth Mkame, community worker, Clermont
- Rev Dr Khoza Mgojo, former President of the SACC and of the Methodist Conference
- Monsignor Paul Nadal, former Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Durban
- Dr Ben Ngubane, politician and business leader
- Professor Phillip Tobias, internationally renowned palaeontologist