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Bureau of State Security (BOSS)

  • ZA-COM-11020
  • Corporate body
Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is a covert agency under the Prime Minister's office that handles coordinating both internal and external security. Its primary duty was to look into everything that might compromise state security, but the organization didn't come with a framework in place.

Qoboza, Percy

  • ZA-COM-11018
  • Person
Qoboza, Percy was an influential black South African journalist, author, and outspoken critic of the apartheid government in South Africa during the early periods of world recognition of the problems evident in the racially divided land.

Ndungane, Winston Njongonkulu

  • ZA-COM-11015
  • Person
Ndungane, Winston Njongonkulu is a retired South African Anglican bishop and a former prisoner on Robben Island. He was the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman and Archbishop of Cape Town.

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Van Rensburg (Warder)

  • ZA-COM-11013
  • Person
Van Rensburg was the Robben Island warder when Nelson Mandela while serving a prison sentence.

de Wet, Christiaan

  • ZA-COM-11012
  • Person
de Wet, Christiaan was a politician, rebel leader, and Boer general. born on the Leeuwkop farm in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State's Smithfield neighborhood.

Yale University

  • ZA-COM-11010
  • Corporate body
Yale University is a private, research-focused Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the third-oldest higher education school in the United States and one of the most prominent in the entire world, having been established in 1701 as the Collegiate School.

Malan, Wynand

  • ZA-COM-11008
  • Person
Malan, Wynand is a liberal politician from South Africa who is Afrikaner. Malan, a lawyer, entered politics in the 1977 South African elections when he won the Randburg seat for the National Party in the country's all-white parliament. He was critical of P.W. and belonged to the reform wing of the NP.

Rooseveld, Theodore Jr.

  • ZA-COM-11007
  • Person
Rooseveld, Theodore Jr was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer.

Ford Foundation

  • ZA-COM-11005
  • Corporate body
Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford.

Whitney Museum

  • ZA-COM-11004
  • Corporate body
Whitney Museum is a museum of art located in Manhattan, New York City's Meatpacking District and West Village.

Starbucks

  • ZA-COM-11003
  • Corporate body
Starbucks is a Seattle, Washington-based global coffee shop and roastery business in the United States. The largest chain of coffee shops exists worldwide.

Phillip, Randolph A

  • ZA-COM-11002
  • Person
  • 1889 - 1979
Phillip, Randolph A was a civil rights and labor activist in the United States. He founded and oversaw the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, the first productive labor union with an African American leader. Randolph was a well-known figure in the early Labor Movement and Civil Rights Movement.

Brooks, Gushwell

  • ZA-COM-10795
  • Person
Brooks, Gushwell is the current Nelson Mandela Foundation Head of Mandela Day and Public Outreach.

Blackburn, Molly

  • ZA-COM-11000
  • Person
Blackburn, Molly was a politician, civil rights activist, and anti-apartheid crusader from South Africa who was well-liked by both blacks and whites.

Schwartz, Harry

  • ZA-COM-10999
  • Person
Schwartz, Harry was an editorial writer for The New York Times from 1951 to 1979 and a specialist in Soviet and East European affairs.

Koornhof, Pieter (Piet) GJ

  • ZA-COM-10998
  • Person
Koornhof, Pieter (Piet) GJ was a politician from South Africa. He served as a National Party cabinet minister during apartheid, holding several positions in the administrations of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha before being named ambassador to the US. He joined the African National Congress in 2001 after apartheid was abolished.

Major, John

  • ZA-COM-10997
  • Person
Major, John is a retired British politician who represented Huntingdon, formerly Huntingdonshire, in the British Parliament from 1979 to 2001. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997.

Stone, Sly

  • ZA-COM-10995
  • Person
Stone, Sly is an American musician, composer, and record producer best known for performing the lead vocals for Sly and the Family Stone. During the 1960s and 1970s, he created a groundbreaking mix of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel music that had a major impact on the creation of funk.

World Council of Churches

  • ZA-COM-10993
  • Corporate body
World Council of Churches is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism.

Bernadt, Vukic, Potash & Getz

  • ZA-COM-10991
  • Corporate body
Bernadt, Vukic, Potash & Getz is a Cape Town-based, boutique law company that practices corporate and commercial law, commercial litigation, real estate law, labor law, and estate planning.

O'Dowd, AP

  • ZA-COM-10989
  • Person
O'Dowd, AP is a professional first class rugby coach and former New Zealand first class cricketer.

Hahlo, HR

  • ZA-COM-10988
  • Person

Diop, Cheikh Anta

  • ZA-COM-10987
  • Person
Diop, Cheikh Anta was a Senegalese politician, physicist, historian, and anthropologist who focused on pre-colonial African culture and the history of the human race.

Nardella, Dario

  • ZA-COM-10986
  • Person
  • 20 November 1975 -
Nardella, Dario is an Italian politician who has served as Florence's mayor since May 26, 2014, and the city's first metropolitan mayor since January 1, 2015.

Parker, Aida

  • ZA-COM-10985
  • Person
Parker, Aida was one of South Africa's best-known political and investigative journalists.

Radford, Betty

  • ZA-COM-10982
  • Person
Radford, Betty was an editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.

Commercial Farmer's Union

  • ZA-COM-10980
  • Corporate body
Commercial Farmer's Union is an organisation that was formed to assist farmers in Zimbabwe with a variety of agricultural services. Farmers within the country pay a subscription fee which entitles them to the use of these services. Currently the president of the CFU is Peter Steyl.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

  • ZA-COM-10979
  • Person
O'Brien, Conor Cruise was a diplomat, politician, historian, author, and professor from Ireland who held the position of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1973 to 1977.

Malan, Daniel Francois (DF)

  • ZA-COM-10978
  • Person
  • 22 May 1874 - 7 February 1959
Malan, Daniel Francois (DF) was a South African politician who presided as the country's fourth prime minister between 1948 and 1954. During his time as prime minister, the National Party put into effect the apartheid regime, which enforced racial segregation laws.

Armah, Ayi Kwei

  • ZA-COM-10976
  • Person
Armah, Ayi Kwei is a Ghanaian author best known for writing The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Two Thousand Seasons, and The Healers, among other books. Along with poems, short stories, and children's books, he also writes essays.

Giamatti, Bartlett

  • ZA-COM-10975
  • Person
Giamatti, Bartlett was the sixth Commissioner of Major League Baseball, the president of Yale University, and an American professor of English Renaissance literature. Only five months into his tenure as commissioner, Giamatti passed away abruptly from a heart attack.

Hayes, Rutherford B

  • ZA-COM-10974
  • Person
  • 1822 - 1893
Hayes, Rutherford B was a lawyer and politician from the United States who presided over the country as its 19th president from 1877 to 1881 after serving as the governor of Ohio and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Weber, Max

  • ZA-COM-10973
  • Person
  • 1864 - 1920
Weber, Max was considered as one of the most significant thinkers of the evolution of contemporary Western society. He was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist. His theories have a significant impact on social theory and research.

Woodson, Carter G

  • ZA-COM-10972
  • Person
Woodson, Carter G was a journalist, historian, and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in the United States. He was among the earliest academics to research the history of the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans.

Casely Hayford, JE

  • ZA-COM-10971
  • Person
Casely Hayford, JE was a well-known journalist, editor, author, lawyer, politician, and supporter of pan-African nationalism from the Fante Gold Coast. One of the first books written by an African author and published in English was his 1911 book Ethiopia Unbound.

Stokes, Anson Phelps

  • ZA-COM-10970
  • Person
Stokes, Anson Phelps was a well-to-do American businessman, banker, real estate developer, genealogist, and philanthropist. He was the son of James Boulter and Caroline Stokes, both of New York City. One of the 13 founding members of the London Missionary Society and a London businessman, Thomas Stokes, was his paternal grandpa.

Mellon Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10969
  • Corporate body
Mellon Foundation is a private foundation with five main areas of interest that was endowed by Andrew Mellon of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Mellon family.

Bin Laden, Osama

  • ZA-COM-10967
  • Person
Bin Laden, Osama was a Saudi Arabian-born founder of the Pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda.

Maisels, Isie (QC)

  • ZA-COM-10965
  • Person
Maisels, Isie (QC) was the Judge President of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland as well as a judge on the High Court of Rhodesia. He practiced law in South Africa from 1928 until his retirement in 1992 and was widely regarded as one of the nation's most formidable legal minds and preeminent among his generation of advocates.

Rumpff, Frans Lourens Herman

  • ZA-COM-10964
  • Person
Rumpff, Frans Lourens Herman (Judge) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1974 to 1982.

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.

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.

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.

Long, Ken

  • ZA-COM-10960
  • Person

Blom-Cooper, Louis

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

Make, Vusumzi

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

Indian Youth Congress

  • ZA-COM-10957
  • Corporate body
The Indian Youth Congress is the Indian National Congress party's youth branch. From the time right following India's 1947 Partition until the late 1960s, the Indian Youth Congress was a division of the Indian National Congress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reddy, Meren

  • ZA-COM-10950
Reddy, Meren is a celebrated writer, producer, and actor who has achieved success both nationally and internationally in each of these fields. Acting roles in Clint Eastwood's "Invictus" and the TV series "Homeland" are among Meren's international credits.

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.

Lotz, Deon

  • ZA-COM-10947
  • Person
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.

Burnham, Burnham

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

Naylor, Nicolette

  • ZA-COM-10943
  • Person
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.

Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)

  • ZA-COM-10942
  • Corporate body
Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) is a non-profit human rights organisation. They work with communities, social movements, individuals and other non-profit organisations in South Africa and beyond to develop and implement strategies to challenge inequality and realise socio-economic rights.

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.

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.

Barsel, Hymie

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

Van Dam, Jan

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

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.

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.

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.

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.
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