Saul Msane was a South African politician and an intellectual, a prominent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and a newspaper editor. He was one of the founding members of the African National Congress and served as its Secretary General from 1917 to 1924.
Msane was born in 1856 in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. He was a teacher between 1882 and 1892 and lead a Zulu choir to London in the latter year. Masne worked as a Compound Manager at Salisbury and Jubilee Mine in Johannesburg from 1895 to 1914.
He died at the home of a Dr Tittlestad, at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal on 6 November 1919.