Not a list,just four South Africans I could google quickly: 1. Siyabulela Xuza (Has an asteroid named after him too,Asteroid 23182/Siyaxuza)- Developed a cheap and safer rocket fuel as a teenager,has also done some work on micro-fuel cells. read more
Mathematics The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African prehistory. The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, which was discovered in the Lebombo Mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 B.C. read more
[size=16pt] 12 Great African Inventions That Changed The World [/size] 1 Speech The first words by humans were spoken by Africans. read more