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Flow Communications (Pty) Ltd

  • ZA-COM-00085
  • Corporate body
  • 2005 -
Flow Communications (Pty) Ltd is one of South Africa’s leading independent marketing and communications agencies. It is a 100% remote working company with staff based in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Teargas

  • ZA-COM-00609
  • Corporate body
TEARGAS is made up of three like-minded young men namely; Ntokozo K.O. Mdluli from Piet Retief in Mpumalanga, two brothers Ezee Ma-E Hanabe and Bantu Ntukza Hanabe from Soweto. They all met at Vaal Tri-angle Technikon in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, where they became best friends due to common musical interests in hip hop.

Jozi

  • ZA-COM-05886
  • Corporate body
Jozi are one of South Africa’s prominent Hip hop crews. Their name is derived from a shortened version of Johannesburg (aka Jo’burg/Jozi). The individuals of the crew comprise of Bongani Fassie (aka Bongz), Ishmael (aka Ish) Morabe and Lesley Mampe (aka Da L.E.S.) and Luther Cohen (aka Crazy Lu) who died on 8 Nov 2019.

Big Nuz

  • ZA-COM-00563
  • Corporate body
  • 2002
Big Nuz was a South African Durban Kwaito music group from South Africa. The group originates from Umlazi township on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, located south-west of Durban and named after the car registration prefix of that township: "NUZ" (Natal Umlazi). The group consists of three members: Mandla Maphumulo (a.k.a. Mampintsha), Mzi (a.k.a. Danger) and Sbu (a.k.a. Mashesha) .

Heritage Foundation

  • ZA-COM-08711
  • Corporate body
  • 16 February 1973 -
It is a research and educational institution whose mission is to build and promote conservative public policies, based in Washington D.C America . Its Heritage’s mission is to formulate and promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.The Heritage Foundation is also much more than a think tank.

African Activist Archive Project

  • ZA-COM-05631
  • Corporate body
The African Activist Archive is preserving and making available online the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s. The website includes:
growing online archive of historical materials - pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings
personal remembrances and interviews with activists
an international directory of collections deposited in libraries and archives
The African Activist Archive Project is collaborating with activists across the U.S. who supported African liberation struggles to create this online archive of more than 10,000 items. The project also assists individuals and groups to deposit their collections in public repositories, including the African Activist Archive collections in the Michigan State University Libraries.

British Library

  • ZA-COM-10029
  • Corporate body
Its is a national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. It is famous for spanning nearly 3,000 years, the British Library holds over 150 million items representing every age of written civilisation. As well as books, you'll find illuminated manuscripts, maps, stamps, photographs, music and much more.

University of the Western Cape

  • ZA-COM-07333
  • Corporate body
The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition.

Kolisi Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10164
  • Corporate body
  • April 2020 -
The Kolisi Foundation was established in April 2020 by Siya and Rachel Kolisi. The Foundation was birthed through Siya and Rachel’s desire to change the story of inequality in South Africa, responding with compassion and courage to the challenges faced by our nation. Proudly rooted in their home country, Siya and Rachel are compelled by a strong conviction that every little small act of change matters. With hearts willing to respond, hands ready to serve, and heads ready to learn, the Kolisi Foundation team is committed to the vision of changing narratives of inequality in South Africa.

Kaizer Motaung Junior Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10167
  • Corporate body
Kaizer Motaung Jr Foundation is a nonprofit organisation seeking to use the power of education to fight hunger, poverty and social injustice in the youth of the African child.

Lutheran World Federation

  • ZA-COM-10175
  • Corporate body
  • 1947 -
The Lutheran World Federation is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran denominations churches headquartered Geneva, Switzerland.

MacDonald's

  • ZA-COM-10178
  • Corporate body
McDonald's Corporation is a global foodservice retailer.

Imbumba Foundation

  • ZA-COM-101217
  • Corporate body
  • 2010 -
The Imbumba Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded by an innovative social entrepreneur, Richard Mabaso in 2010.

ZAM

  • Corporate body
ZAM was founded in 2007 and is based in Amsterdam. It is rooted in a heritage of anti-apartheid activism, provocative journalism, and artistic expression. ZAM is also rooted in the Dutch solidarity movements with the struggles against apartheid and colonialism. Its network consists of journalists, writers, visual artists, photographers, academics, visionaries, and doers. Together they fuel a critically acclaimed, independent, quarterly magazine, digital media, events, and art pieces. ZAM is also the organiser of the annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in collaboration with the International Theatre Amsterdam.

Standard Bank

  • ZA-COM-02133
  • Corporate body
Standard Bank is a financial institution that offers banking and financial services to individuals, businesses, institutions and corporations in Africa and abroad.

Multichoice

  • ZA-COM-10331
  • Corporate body

De Beers

  • ZA-COM-10374
  • Corporate body
  • 1888 -
De beers which is also known as De Beers Group is an international corporation that specializes in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company is active in open-pit, large-scale alluvial and coastal mining.

Iziko museums

  • ZA-COM-10417
  • Corporate body
Iziko Museums of South Africa operates the premier public art and cultural destinations in Cape Town. This flagship heritage institution, manages 11 national museums; collection-specific libraries; a world-class Social History Archive and the most advanced digital Planetarium and Digital Dome on the African Continent. Iziko is an isiXhosa word, meaning ‘hearth’, traditionally and symbolically the social centre of the home , a place associated with warmth, kinship and ancestral spirits.

National Prosecuting Authority

  • ZA-COM-10438
  • Corporate body
  • 1996 -
It is the agency of the South African government responsible for state prosecutions.

British Council

  • ZA-COM-10498
  • Corporate body
  • 1943 -
The British Council is a British organisation specializing in international cultural and educational opportunities.

InterAction Council

  • ZA-COM-10499
  • Corporate body
  • 1983 -
The InterAction Council is an independent non-profit organization that brings together former world leaders to mobilize their energy, experience and international contacts in an effort to develop recommendations and foster co-operation and positive action around the world.

Zambia Broadcasting Corporation

  • ZA-COM-10503
  • Corporate body
  • 1987-
The Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) is a Zambian television and radio station, formerly state owned, now owned by Zambians. It is the oldest, widest and largest radio and television service provider in Zambia It was established by an Act of Parliament in 1987, which was passed to transform the Zambia Broadcasting Services from being a Government Department under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services into a statutory body called the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation.

Kentucky Fried Chicken

  • ZA-COM-09968
  • Corporate body
  • 24 September 1952 -
Kentucky Fried Chicken also known as KFC is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky that specializes in fried chicken. It is the world's second-largest restaurant chain after McDonald's, with 22,621 locations globally in 150 countries.

Thebe Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10505
  • Corporate body
  • 2011-
The Thebe Foundation which was established in 2011, is a registered Public Benefit Organisation which aims to make a difference and transform the lives of people in the community of South Africa.

Manhattan Brothers

  • ZA-COM-10513
  • Corporate body
  • 1946 -
A singing group formed in Johannesburg in 1946 by Joseph Mogotsi, Nathan ‘Dambuza’ Mdedle, Ronnie Majola Sehume and Rufus Khoza, the Manhattan Brothers were the greatest South African vocal group of the 50s and 60s, whose jazz-influenced style blazed a trail for later, more traditionally-orientated vocal outfits

African National Congress (ANC)

  • ZA-COM-04132
  • Corporate body
  • 8 January 1912 -
Established as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) in 1912. Renamed African National Congress (ANC) in 1923. Following the Sharpeville Massacre in March 1960, the ANC was banned by the South African government and went underground until the ban was lifted in 1990. Its military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), was established in 1961, with Mandela as commander-in-chief. The ANC became South Africa’s governing party after the nation’s first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.

International University Exchange Fund (IUEF)

  • ZA-COM-10662
  • Corporate body
  • 1961-1981
International University Exchange Fund (IUEF) was established at the International Student Conference (ISC) headquarters in Leiden, Netherlands, with the goal of supporting refugees. Later, it was relocated to Geneva, where it approved a new constitution and established a board of Nordic non-governmental organizations, particularly student and youth organizations. Sweden's Lars-Gunnar Eriksson was named Director of the IUEF, with plans to develop the organization and provide scholarships for Southern African students, among other things.

People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA)

  • ZA-COM-10663
  • Corporate body
People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) was originally the armed wing of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola but later became Angola's official armed forces when the MPLA took control of the government. The FAPLA fought the SADF and UNITA/FALA constantly from the 1970s, part of the Angolan civil war and the South African boarder war including during Operation Savannah Operation Sceptic.

South West African National Union (SWANU)

  • ZA-COM-10664
  • Corporate body
  • 1959 -
South West African National Union (SWANU) is a Namibian political party founded in 1959. Most of its members came from the Herero people, while fellow independence movement SWAPO was mostly an Ovambo party. The party's president is Charles Katjivirue.

Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA)

  • ZA-COM-10666
  • Corporate body
  • 1994 -
Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) is the successor organization of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, which was founded in 1994 to end apartheid's legacy and promote rights, equality, and sustainable development in Southern Africa. Its mission is to involve people in Southern Africa who are affected by political, civil, social, and economic injustices, as well as to guide key people in driving change and delivering justice to those who are victims of human rights breaches and inequality.

South African Committee on Higher Education (SACHED)

  • ZA-COM-10667
  • Corporate body
  • 1959 -
South African Committee on Higher Education (SACHED) was established in 1959 as an innovative reaction to the problem in university education caused by the National Party government's decision to enforce apartheid at the university level, completing its apartheid educational plan.

Mozambican Resistance Movement (RENAMO)

  • ZA-COM-10668
  • Corporate body
  • 1975 -
Mozambican Resistance Movement (RENAMO) is a Mozambican militant organization and political movement. It was created in 1975 as part of an anti-communist response against the country's government FRELIMO party, and is sponsored by the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).

Kenyan African Union (KANU)

  • ZA-COM-10669
  • Corporate body
  • 1960 -
Kenyan African Union (KANU) is a Kenyan political party that controlled for nearly four decades after the country gained independence from British colonial authority in 1963, until losing an election in 2002. From 1944 until 1952, it was known as Kenya African Union. From 1952 through 1960, the colonial administration outlawed the KAU.

International Missionary Council

  • ZA-COM-10670
  • Corporate body
  • 1921 -
International Missionary Council was a protestant ecumenical missionary organization founded in 1921 that united with the World Council of Churches in 1961 to form the World Council of Churches' Division of World Mission and Evangelism.

Community of the Resurrection

  • ZA-COM-10675
  • Corporate body
Community of the Resurrection is an Anglican religious community for men in England. It is based in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and has 13 members as of February 2021. The community reflects Anglicanism in its broad nature and is strongly engaged in the life of the Anglican Communion.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

  • ZA-COM-10676
  • Corporate body
  • 1810 -
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College.

Born To Win Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10677
  • Corporate body
Born To Win Foundation aim to specifically support the boy child and inspire them to contribute to a positive society. The programme is proactive in its nature instead of being reactive to major challenges like GBV and crime.

South African department of justice and correctional services

  • ZA-COM-10679
  • Corporate body
South African department of justice and correctional services contribute to the maintenance and protection of a just, peaceful and safe society by implementing court-ordered sentences, holding offenders in safe custody and fostering their feeling of social responsibility while respecting their human dignity.

Young Womens' Christian Association (YWCA)

  • ZA-COM-10701
  • Corporate body
Young Womens' Christian Association (YWCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering, leading, and protecting the rights of women, young women, and girls in over 100 countries. The nonprofit's headquarters are in Washington, DC, and the World office is currently housed in Geneva, Switzerland.

Society for Young Africans (SOYA)

  • ZA-COM-10702
  • Corporate body
Society for Young Africans (SOYA) was a youth organisation mostly African launched to counter the rabid racism of the Youth League with its slogan “Africa for the Africans”.

Christian Democratic Party

  • ZA-COM-10704
  • Corporate body
Christian Democratic Party is a Christian social conservative party in South Africa. Since 1970, Theunis Botha, a Christian cleric, has served as the CDP's leader. He founded the Christian Drama Workshop (CDW) and the Christian Fellowship of Ministries (CFM). He was a councillor on the Pretoria City Council and a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislative Assembly (MPL) since 1994.

European Pressphoto Agency

  • ZA-COM-10705
  • Corporate body
European Pressphoto Agency is an independent news photo organization and its employees and collaborators are under the obligation not to allow governments, political parties or any ideological, financial or partisan group to influence their professional work.

South African Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10706
  • Corporate body
South African Foundation is a non-profit organization comprised of South Africa's leading firms and major global corporations with a strong presence in the country. The Foundation is a non-partisan, independent voice of South African business leaders. It is exclusively funded by private subscriptions from its business members in order to promote South Africa's and its people's interests. The Foundation aims to create and express unified positions on macroeconomic and other national issues, as well as to support the interests and further expansion of South Africa's private sector both locally and abroad.

African Union Society

  • ZA-COM-10707
  • Corporate body
African Union Society was created in Newport, Rhode Island. While most blacks from Rhode Island were free by 1807, strong prejudice and oppression were present before and after that date. The AUS developed partly in response to these difficulties, as well as a forum for black cultural discussion. The society is considered one of the first formal organizations founded by free blacks in the United States, and the first mutual aid society for African Americans, although similar societies would form over the next thirty years throughout the Northeast.

Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB)

  • ZA-COM-10708
  • Corporate body
Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) was a government-sponsored counterinsurgency unit, during the apartheid era. The CCB, operated under the authority of Defence Minister General Magnus Malan. The Truth and Reconciliation Committee, pronounced the CCB guilty of numerous killings, and suspected more killings.

Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA)

  • Corporate body
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is a South African state-owned enterprise responsible for most passenger rail services in the country.

Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)

  • ZA-COM-10710
  • Corporate body
Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

  • ZA-COM-10711
  • Corporate body
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board.

South African Press Association (SAPA)

  • ZA-COM-10712
  • Corporate body
South African Press Association (SAPA) was the national news agency of South Africa until its closure in 2015.

People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)

  • ZA-COM-10713
  • Corporate body
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) is a group formed in 1996 in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa. The organisation came to prominence for acts of vigilante violence against gangsters, including arson and murder.

Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)

  • ZA-COM-10713
  • Corporate body
Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) is a communist party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa, tactically dissolved itself in 1950 in the face of being declared illegal by the governing National Party under the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950.

Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)

  • ZA-COM-10715
  • Corporate body
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) was a trade union and mass-based popular political movement in southern Africa. It was influenced by the syndicalist politics of the Industrial Workers of the World, as well as by Garveyism, Christianity, communism, and liberalism.

National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)

  • ZA-COM-107016
  • Corporate body
National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was an important force for liberalism and later radicalism in South African student anti-apartheid politics. Its mottos included non-racialism and non-sexism.

End Conscription Campaign (ECC)

  • ZA-COM-10717
  • Corporate body
  • 1983 -
End Conscription Campaign (ECC) was an anti-apartheid organisation allied to the United Democratic Front and composed of conscientious objectors and their supporters in South Africa. It was formed in 1983 to oppose the conscription of all white South African men into military service in the South African Defence Force.

Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)

  • ZA-COM-10718
  • Corporate body
Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is a South African HIV/AIDS activist organisation which was co-founded by the HIV-positive activist Zackie Achmat in 1998. TAC is rooted in the experiences, direct action tactics and anti-apartheid background of its founder.

African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)

  • ZA-COM-10719
  • Corporate body
African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) is a Trotskyist political group in South Africa. It emerged from the Non-European Unity Movement, and was closely associated with I.B. Tabata, a leading Marxist who died in exile in 1990. Its aim was to end white minority domination of South Africa and ultimately achieve a socialist revolution supported by an alliance of the urban proletariat and peasantry.[

Zimbabwe Farmers' Union

  • ZA-COM-10720
  • Corporate body
Zimbabwe Farmers' Union is the largest farmers’ interest organization in Zimbabwe and it represents over a million farming households. The Union draws its membership from the communal, resettlement, small-scale commercial, peri-urban plot holders, A1; A2 and large-scale commercial farmers sub sectors.

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa

  • ZA-COM-10722
  • Corporate body
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is the biggest single trade union in South Africa with more than 338,000 members, and prior to its expulsion on 8 November 2014, the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country's largest trade union federation.

Reach for a Dream Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10723
  • Corporate body
  • 1988 -
Reach for a Dream Foundation is an organisation that seeks to alleviate the strain that life-threatening illnesses place on sick children and their families by providing these dreamers with the opportunity to believe in their greatest wish. The Foundation has been providing dreams to children all around the country for 33 years in counting.

Sinn Fein

  • ZA-COM-10729
  • Corporate body
Sinn Fein is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith.

World Food Programme (WFP)

  • ZA-COM-10735
  • Corporate body
  • 1961 -
World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization focused on hunger and food security, and the largest provider of school meals. Founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries.

Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society

  • ZA-COM-10740
  • Corporate body
Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society was an international human rights organisation to ensure the health and well-being and the sovereign, legal and religious rights of the indigenous peoples while also promoting the civilisation of the indigenous people who were subjected under colonial powers in particular the British Empire. In 1909 it merged with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) to form the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society now Anti-Slavery International.

Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith

  • ZA-COM-10744
  • Corporate body
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States specializing in civil rights law.

United Society for the Propogation of the Gospel

  • ZA-COM-10746
  • Corporate body
United Society for the Propogation of the Gospel is a United Kingdom-based charitable organization. It was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) as a high church missionary organization of the Church of England and was active in the Thirteen Colonies of North America. The group was renamed in 1965 as the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG) after incorporating the activities of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA).

National Urban League

  • ZA-COM-10747
  • Corporate body
National Urban League it formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. It is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

Green Development Foundation (GDF)

  • ZA-COM-10748
  • Corporate body
Green Development Foundation (GDF) is a registered NPC that is committed to sustained upliftment of communities, and preservation of the environment. The Green Development Foundation seeks to support the South African government in its efforts to address various social challenges that are unique to our nation. It supports various Social Development Goals that are aligned to our areas of expertise. The organisation is comprised of a team of individuals who share a common purposes and passion – to leave a lasting legacy in the sustained improvement of communities, individuals, and the environment that they impact.

Tripartite Alliance

  • ZA-COM-10756
  • Corporate body
Tripartite Alliance is an alliance between the African National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party. The ANC holds a majority in the South African parliament, while the SACP and COSATU have not contested any democratic election in South Africa.

Lepelle Northern Water

  • ZA-COM-10757
  • Corporate body
Lepelle Northern Water is a state-owned water utility. Its vision is to provide excellent regional water and sanitation services solutions. Municipal customers serviced by LNW include Polokwane Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Vhembe District Municipality and Mogalakwena Local Municipality.

Judicial Services Commission

  • ZA-COM-10758
  • Corporate body
Judicial Services Commission was established to select fit and proper persons for appointment as judges and to investigate complaints about judicial officers. It also advises government on any matters relating to the judiciary or to the administration of justice.

United Nations Trusteeship Council

  • ZA-COM-10759
  • Corporate body
United Nations Trusteeship Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security. It was established to supervise the administration of trust territories as they transitioned from colonies to sovereign nations.

Merck

  • ZA-COM-10760
  • Corporate body
Merck is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and present in 66 countries. The group includes around 250 companies; the main company is Merck KGaA in Germany.

Vietnamese National Liberation Front

  • ZA-COM-10761
  • Corporate body
Vietnamese National Liberation Front is a political organization formed to effect the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government and the reunification of North and South Vietnam.
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