Michael Alexander Stern OBE (13 January 1922 – 14 July 2002) was the founder of the Waterford Kamhlaba United World College, a multi-racial school in opposition to South Africa's apartheid policies.
Stern served in the Royal Signals in the British Army in North Africa, Italy, and Greece, rising to the rank of captain.
Stern left South Africa for Swaziland to establish a new school in which students of all races could study together, with an emphasis on cooperation in community service.
[2] Another Waterford boy, Fernando Honwana, became a trusted assistant to Samora Machel of Mozambique, helping him to act as go-between in negotiations between Margaret Thatcher's administration and the emerging African government in Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe.
Stern's educational accomplishment was based on the school's balance of boys (and later girls) of all races, tribes and religions.