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Skelton, Kenneth (Rev)

  • ZA-COM-1037
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Skelton, Kenneth (Rev) was the 2nd Bishop of Matabeleland in what was then known as Rhodesia and subsequently the 96th Bishop of Lichfield.

Bhorat, Haroon

  • ZA-COM-10738
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Bhorat, Haroon is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.

Mazzucato, Mariana

  • ZA-COM-10739
  • Person
  • 1968 -
Mazzucato, Mariana is an economist with dual Italian–US citizenship. She is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Cetshwayo ka Mpande, King

  • ZA-COM-10741
  • Person
  • 1826 - 1884
Cetshwayo ka Mpande, King was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1879 and its leader during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

Farisani, Tshenuwani Simon 'T.S'

  • ZA-COM-10743
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Farisani, Tshenuwani Simon 'T.S' is the author of books such as Diary From a South African Prison.

Augustine of Hippo

  • ZA-COM-10745
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Augustine of Hippo was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. He was also a skilled preacher and rhetorician.

Musida, Shudufhadzo

  • ZA-COM-10749
  • Person
  • 18 July 1996 -
Musida, Shudufhadzo is a South African model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 2020. She is the first title holder from the province of Limpopo and whose first language is Venda, and was selected to represent South Africa in Miss World 2021.

Tunzi, Zozibini

  • ZA-COM-10750
  • Person
  • 18 September 1993 -
Tunzi, Zozibini is a South African model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe 2019. Tunzi had previously been crowned Miss South Africa 2019. She is the third woman from South Africa to win the title, and the first black woman since Angolan Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe 2011.

Maesela, Nickita

  • ZA-COM-10752
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Maesela, Nickita she is a BA Honours in Curatorship graduate at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art. She completed an internship at the NPO the Nelson Mandela Foundation on the Communications and Marketing team.

Mbuli, Laetitia

  • ZA-COM-10751
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Mbuli, Laetitia is Moya's production manager. At AFRE, Laetitia coordinates all aspects of the fellowship to support a successful experience for Fellows, including implementation of the virtual and immersive retreats and the administration of scholarship payments. She also supports the development of AFRE’s IDEA Labs, such as the Senior Fellows Institute. She is also assists the NMF’s Dialogue and Advocacy programme with coordination. Prior to joining AFRE, Laetitia was the Project Manager at WomEng, where her work focused on creating a more diverse and inclusive engineering workforce. She has experience delivering Fellowship programmes across the African continent and abroad.

Mohammed, Pops

  • ZA-COM-10755
  • Person
  • 1949 -
Mohammed, Pops is a South African multi-instrumentalist, jazz musician and producer. Born in Benoni, Gauteng. He had a career in music that was the logical outcome of an early exposure at Dorkay House to the likes of Abdullah Ibrahim and Kippie Moeketsi.

Moshoeshoe, I King

  • ZA-COM-10762
  • Person
  • 1870 - 1786
Moshoeshoe, I King was born at Menkhoaneng in the northern part of present-day Lesotho. He was the first son of Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bamokoteli lineage- a branch of the Koena clan. In his youth, he helped his father gain power over some other smaller clans.

Ngungunyane

  • ZA-COM-10763
  • Person
  • 1850 - 1906
Ngungunyane was a tribal king and vassal of the Portuguese Empire who rebelled. He was defeated by General Joaquim Mouzinho de Albuquerque and lived out the rest of his life in exile, first in Lisbon but later on the island of Terceira, in the Azores.

Rabasotho, Lawrence

  • ZA-COM-10753
  • Person
Rabasotho, Lawrence used to work at the Nelson Mandela Foundation as the Mandela Day department's intern. He was helping with conceptualizing and implementing outreach plans and activities.

Sefali, Shoaneng

  • ZA-COM-10769
  • Person
Sefali, Shoaneng is an English teacher at Sediba-Thuto Secondary School in Heilbron, Free State, in South Africa, his native country. He is currently the chairperson of two Provincial bodies: The Writers Forum and The English Teachers Association. He is a member of The National Association of English Teachers of South Africa. He attended quite a number of English training workshops including the recent one with the University of Massachusetts in the U.S.A. His passion of poetry is reflected in his teaching in the classroom. He started writing while he was still at high school, writing English poems, but later on translated them into Sotho language. It is now that he is starting to write in English again. He is a firm believer that the best way to share his deep and emotional thoughts ranging from nature, events, humanity and so on, is to have his work translated into different world languages.

Arogundade, Dele (Brigadier General)

  • ZA-COM-10770
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Arogundade, Dele (Brigadier General) is a colonel in the Nigerian Army, and he's also a poet, writer and life coach. His recent collection of poetry, titled 'Perceptions Unabridged' is a smash hit, featured across the media.

Moll, Judge President

  • ZA-COM-10773
  • Person
Moll, Judge President was a South African judge who served as Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa from 1985 until 1991.

Roberts, Sue

  • ZA-COM-10774
  • Person
  • 27 October 1950 - 13 October 2015
Roberts, Sue was a British television journalist who contributed reports to BBC programmes and, earlier in her career, worked for ITN.

Per Wastberg

  • ZA-COM-10775
  • Person
Per Wastberg is a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. Wästberg was born in Stockholm, son of Erik Wästberg and his wife Greta née Hirsch, and holds a degree in literature from Uppsala University.

Ngqika

  • ZA-COM-10781
  • Person
Ngqika is the son of King Mlawu, son of King Rharhabe, the son of King Phalo of the right hand house. King Ngqika ruled the Rharhabe nation with wisdom and humility. He allowed missionaries, who included Rev. Brownlee and Bennie to build churches and schools. These included Lovedale, Healdtown, St Matthews and Fort Hare University, these became the legacy of education to all people of Africa.

Ingram, Philippa

  • ZA-COM-10782
  • Person
Ingram, Philippa is a retired journalist. Articles by Philippa Ingram. A Cardinal's ordeal: George Pell's Prison Journal.

Li Hsien-Nien

  • ZA-COM-10783
  • Person
  • 23 June 1909 - 21 June 1992
Li Hsien-Nien was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, President of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988 under Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping and then Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1988 until his death.

Kidi Amin

  • ZA-COM-10786
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Motsekuoa, Tshepang

  • ZA-COM-10796
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Motsekuoa, Tshepang is the current Nelson Mandela foundation Head of communication and marketing department.

Msimang, Sisonke

  • ZA-COM-10797
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Msimang, Sisonke is a South African writer, activist and political analyst based in Perth, Western Australia, whose focus is on race, gender, and politics.

Ramohloki, Nomahlozi

  • ZA-COM-10791
  • Person
  • 2000 -
Ramohloki, Nomahlozi is a bright-eyed and ambitious young woman that was born in a rural place called Qwaqwa, in the Free State.She pursued her degree in International Studies (Majoring in Political Science) at the University of Pretoria and graduated in April 2021. Nomahlozi’s life revolves around education, information and being in positions of motivation and leadership. She is currently the Mandela day cordinator at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Arndt, Channing

  • ZA-COM-10820
  • Person
Arndt, Channing a Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University. He has worked with governments in Africa and Asia to form and monitor development strategy.

Sophocles

  • ZA-COM-10825
  • Person
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.

Hertzog, Barry (JBM)

  • ZA-COM-10827
  • Person
  • 06 April 1866 - 21 November 1942
Hertzog, Barry (JBM) was a South African politician and soldier. He was a Boer general during the Second Boer War who served as the third prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939.

Harris, JL

  • ZA-COM-10828
  • Person
Harris, JL is the co-author of The Providence Series, The Catalyst Series, and Sincerely, Grace. She is also an editor and proofreader who blogs about the writing craft and editing processes.

Canterbury, Archbishop of

  • ZA-COM-10831
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Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

Richmond, Duchess of

  • ZA-COM-10833
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Duchess of Richmond is the wife of the Duke of Richmond, an extant title in the Peerage of England that has been created four times, originally in 1525.

Kaka, Luthando

  • ZA-COM-10847
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Kaka, Luthando is event director of the Legacy Ride4Hope. He also captains and co-founded a Professional Cycling Team.

Hani, Godfrey

  • ZA-COM-10849
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Hani, Godfrey is an experienced HR Executive and Corporate Executive with a demonstrated successful history of working in the Automotive Industry and in the Transport Industry.

Haswell, Robert

  • ZA-COM-10850
  • Person
  • 1954 - 2018
Haswell, Robert was an early American maritime fur trader to the Pacific Northwest of North America. His journals of these voyages are the main records of Captain Robert Gray's circumnavigation of the globe. Later during the Quasi-War he served as an officer in the United States Navy.

Motshekga, Angie

  • ZA-COM-10852
  • Person
  • 19 June 1955 -
Motshekga, Angie is a South African politician and educator serving as the Minister of Basic Education since May 2009. She was also appointed as an acting president of the Republic of South Africa on 2 July 2021, as President Cyril Ramaphosa attended the state funeral of Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia.

Beatrice, Princess

  • ZA-COM-10860
  • Person
Beatrice, Princess is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. Born fifth in line of succession to the British throne, she is now ninth.

Oppenheimer, Isabell

  • ZA-COM-10898
  • Person
  • 23 July 1901 - 4 January 1974
Oppenheimer, Isabell was a Puerto Rican brothel owner and madam in barrio Maragüez, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Her name and her brothel, Elizabeth's Dancing Club, became part of Puerto Rican folklore both during her life and posthumously.

Uys, Peter Dirk

  • ZA-COM-10900
  • Person
Uys, Peter Dirk is a South African performer, author, satirist, and social activist. One of his best known roles is as Evita Bezuidenhout, an Afrikaner socialite.

Tagore, Rabindranath

  • ZA-COM-10914
  • Person
  • 1861-1941
Tagore, Rabindranath was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Redgrave, Vanessa

  • ZA-COM-10915
  • Person
  • 30 January 1937 -
Redgrave, Vanessa is an English actress and activist.

Craig (Reverend)

  • ZA-COM-10916
  • Person
Craig Groeschel is the founder and senior pastor of Life.

Mkhonto, Sparrow

  • ZA-COM-10919
  • Person
  • 24 December 1951 - 27 June 1985
Mkhonto, Sparrow was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and one of The Cradock Four murdered by the South African police in 1985.

Kleinschmidt, Horst

  • ZA-COM-10920
  • Person
  • 17 October 1945 -
Kleinschmidt, Horst was an Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and South African Christian Institute. He was detained under apartheid laws.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  • ZA-COM-10927
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist.

Fischer, Ruth

  • ZA-COM-10929
  • Person
  • 1895 - 1918
Fischer, Ruth was an Austrian and German Communist and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party in 1918. She later became a staunch anti-Stalinist activist.

Fischer, Percy

  • ZA-COM-10931
  • Person
Fischer, Percy was a South African judge president of the Orange Free State Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He was the son of politician Abraham Fischer and the father of the lawyer Bram Fischer.

Blyden, Edward Wilmot

  • ZA-COM-10933
  • Person
  • 1832 - 1912
Blyden, Edward Wilmot was a Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician who was primarily active in West Africa. Born in the Danish West Indies, he joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to the country.

Hammarskold, Dag

  • ZA-COM-10934
  • Person
  • 1905 - 1961
Hammarskold, Dag was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death.

Van Dam, Jan

  • ZA-COM-10935
  • Person
  • 1857 - 1927
Van Dam, Jan was a Dutch painter.

Barsel, Hymie

  • ZA-COM-10939
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Barsel, Hymie was a South African activist.

Feinstein, Charles

  • ZA-COM-10940
  • Person
Feinstein, Charles was a noted South African and British economic historian. He was born in Johannesburg, received his early education at Parktown Boys' High School and studied at Witwatersrand University and Cambridge University where he completed his doctorate.

Seipei, James 'Stompie' Moeketsi

  • ZA-COM-10941
  • Person
  • 1974 - 1989
Seipei, James 'Stompie' Moeketsi was a teenage United Democratic Front (UDF) activist from Parys in South Africa.

Naylor, Nicolette

  • ZA-COM-10943
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Nicolette Naylor is a South African feminist human rights lawyer, with a Masters in International Human Rights. In 2007 she joined philanthropy as a Program Officer for Human Rights at the Ford Foundation. In 2015 she assumed the role of Regional Director for Ford Foundation's Southern Africa office. Nicolette has focused on women’s rights as well as the practice of social justice philanthropy and has written extensively about the practice of social justice philanthropy and its contradictions when it comes to power and privilege.

Burnham, Burnham

  • ZA-COM-10944
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Burnham, Burnham is a former Research Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, United States.

Lotz, Deon

  • ZA-COM-10947
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Lotz, Deon is a South African film, television, and theatre actor. He is perhaps best known internationally for roles in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Beauty. He has appeared in both English- and Afrikaans-language productions.

Minnaar, Dawid

  • ZA-COM-10949
  • Person
Minnaar, Dawid is a playwright and actor from South Africa. He began his theatrical career in the 1980s and went on to play a number of well-known characters in television series like 7de Laan, Amalia, and Binnelanders.

Liquorish, Kate

  • ZA-COM-10951
  • Person
Liquorish, Kate is a South African actress who has received numerous nominations for best actress and best supporting actress at the renowned Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards for her theatrical work.

Kennett, Jason

  • ZA-COM-10952
  • Person
Kennett, Jason is a South African actor best known for his 2010–2011 appearance in the M-Net soap opera Binneland Sub Judice as bistro owner Emilio Castignani.

Nyqvist, Michael

  • ZA-COM-10953
  • Person
Nyqvist, Michael acted in Swedish films. He received his training at the Malmö School of Drama. He rose to fame by playing police officer Banck in the Martin Beck TV series from 1997 to 1998 and by starring in the 2002 movie Grabben I graven bredvid.

Harewood, David

  • ZA-COM-10954
  • Person
Harewood, David is a British presenter and actor. His most well-known performances include those of J'onn J'onzz, Martian Manhunter, and Hank Henshaw, Cyborg Superman in Supergirl, as well as CIA Counterterrorism Director David Estes in Homeland.

Hooks, Kevin

  • ZA-COM-10955
  • Person
Hooks, Kevin is an American actor, director, and producer. He is well-known for his work in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but he is perhaps best known for his portrayal as Morris Thorpe in the TV series The White Shadow.

De Villiers, Etienne

  • ZA-COM-10956
  • Person
De Villiers, Etienne is a business executive and investor in international media and sports. He is the CEO of DataEQ, a well-known South African company that conducts opinion research.

Make, Vusumzi

  • ZA-COM-10958
  • Person
Make, Vusumzi was a lawyer and civil rights advocate from South Africa.

Blom-Cooper, Louis

  • ZA-COM-10959
  • Person
Blom-Cooper, Louis was a public and administrative law expert who also wrote in English.

Long, Ken

  • ZA-COM-10960
  • Person

Mtwana, Ida

  • ZA-COM-10961
  • Person
  • 1903 - 1960
Mtwana, Ida was elected to the ANC Executive Committee, the first president of the ANC Women's League, national president of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), and a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial.

Conco, Wilson Zamindlela 'Zami' (Dr)

  • ZA-COM-10962
  • Person
  • 1919 -
Conco, Wilson Zamindlela 'Zami' (Dr) was a medical doctor, national treasurer of the ANC Youth League in 1950s, member of the ANC, 1956 Treason trialist.

Pirow, Oswald (QC)

  • ZA-COM-10963
  • Person
  • 14 August 1890 - 11 October 1959
Pirow, Oswald (QC) was a South African lawyer and far right politician, who held office as minister of Justice, thereafter minister of Defence.
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