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White, Shui-lyn

  • ZA-COM-10379
  • Person
Shui-Lyn White is an artist who uses the gestural and textural evocations of paint.

Jassat, Essop

  • ZA-COM-10375
  • Person
  • 05 October 1932 -
Dr Essop Essak Jassat is part of a brave group of political activists who fought relentlessly against injustice. In December 1984, Jassat and 15 others, including UDF co-presidents Albertina Sisulu and Archie Gumede, were charged with treason. Due to “insufficient and unconvincing evidence”, charges against 12 of the 16 accused were withdrawn in December 1985. Dr Jassat was a representative at the Convention for Democratic South Africa (Codesa) negotiations. In 1994 he was elected as a Member of Parliament and served in this position until 2004. Jassat returned to his surgery on Bree Street in Fordsburg and is now semi-retired.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

  • ZA-COM-10373
  • Person
  • 11 December 1918 - 03 August 2003
He was a Russian novelist and historian, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

  • ZA-COM-10372
  • Person
  • 04 February 1906 - 09 April 1945
He was a German theologian.

Eglin, Colin

  • ZA-COM-10369
  • Person
  • 1925 - 2013
He was a former member of Parliament and a founder member of the Progressive Party. He was also the Officer of the Order of the Disa as well as the recipient of the National Order of the Baobab.He was also South African politician best known for having served as national leader of the opposition from 1977–79 and 1986-87. He represented Sea Point in the South African Parliament from 1958–61 and from 1974-2004.

Suzman, Helen

  • ZA-COM-01984
  • Person
  • 7 November 1917 - January 2009

de Lange, Pieter

  • ZA-COM-10363
  • Person
  • 27 February 1926 - 09 April 2019
He was a South African educationalist, chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond, and a negotiator

Hofmeyr, Jan

  • ZA-COM-10357
  • Person
  • 04 July 1845 - 16 October 1909
He was a statesman and leader of the Afrikaner Bond, a political party supporting the agrarian interests of Dutch South Africans in the Cape Colony.

Engels, Friedrich

  • ZA-COM-10343
  • Person
He was a German socialist philosopher, the closest collaborator of Karl Marx in the foundation of modern communism. They co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848), and Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx’s death.

Ibaka, Serge

  • ZA-COM-10341
  • Person
  • 18 September 1989 -
Sege Ibak is a Congolese-Spanish professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association.

Ralivhona, Ndivhudzannyi

  • ZA-COM-10332
  • Person
Known by her stage name Makhadzi, she is a South African singer. Born and raised in Ha-Mashamba, Limpopo, she is best known for her songs "shanda Vhuya and Matorokisi. Makhadzi's 2020 album Kokovha became one of her biggest successes and debuted at number one on the South African iTunes albums charts. It contained the chart-topping singles Amadoda, Mphemphe, Kokovha and Tshikwama.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

  • ZA-COM-10328
  • Person
He was Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer.

Matshikiza, Todd

  • ZA-COM-10325
  • Person
  • 1921 - 1968
He was a South African jazz pianist, composer and journalist.

Rabie, Pieter

  • ZA-COM-10303
  • Person
  • 1917 - 1997
He was a South African judge during the apartheid era.

Satre, Jean-Paul

  • ZA-COM-10299
  • Person
He was French philosopher, novelist, and playwright, best known as the leading exponent of existentialism in the 20th century. In 1964 he declined the Nobel Prize for Literature, which had been awarded to him “for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth.

Eve, Ian

  • ZA-COM-10278
  • Person
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