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Kaizer Chiefs F.C.

  • ZA-COM-11057
  • Corporate body
Kaizer Chiefs F.C. is a South African professional football club based in Naturena, Johannesburg South, that plays in the Premier Soccer League. The team is nicknamed AmaKhosi, which means "Lords" or "Chiefs" in Zulu, and the Phefeni Glamour Boys.

Mitsubishi Corporate

  • ZA-COM-11056
  • Corporate body
Mitsubishi Corporate is Japan's largest trading company and a member of the Mitsubishi keiretsu. It has ten business segments, including finance, banking, energy, machinery, chemicals, and food.

Europa Art Group

  • ZA-COM-11055
  • Corporate body
Europa Art Group has been at the forefront of fashionable footwear.

Joubert, Dereck

  • ZA-COM-11054
  • Person
Joubert, Dereck is an award-winning filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer at Large and wildlife conservationists, who has been filming, researching and exploring in Africa for over 30 years.

Macmillan, Harold

  • ZA-COM-11049
  • Person
Macmillan, Harold was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

Zion Church

  • ZA-COM-11047
  • Corporate body
Zion Church is one of the largest African-initiated churches operating across Southern Africa. The church's headquarters are at Zion City Moria in Limpopo Province, South Africa.

University of Venda

  • ZA-COM-11046
  • Corporate body
University of Venda is a South African comprehensive rural-based institution, located in Thohoyandou in Limpopo province.

Mzamane, Godfrey IM

  • ZA-COM-11045
  • Person
Mzamane, Godfrey IM was a novelist, literary historian, academic and intellectual pioneer of African studies in South Africa.

St Davids Marist

  • ZA-COM-11044
  • Corporate body
St Davids Marist is a private English medium Roman Catholic preparatory and high school for boys in Inanda, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Higginbotham, Evelyn

  • ZA-COM-11043
  • Person
Higginbotham, Evelyn is a professor of Afro-American Studies, African American Religion and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Van den Bergh, Henrik Johan (General)

  • ZA-COM-11040
  • Person
Van den Bergh, Henrik Johan (General) was a South African police official most famous for founding the Bureau of State Security.

Ruskin College

  • ZA-COM-11035
  • Corporate body
Ruskin College is an independent educational institution in Oxford, England. It is named after the essayist, art and social critic John Ruskin and specialises in providing educational opportunities for adults with few or no qualifications.

Yengwa, Masabalala Bonnie 'MB'

  • ZA-COM-11034
  • Person
  • 05 December 1923 - 21 July 1987
Yengwa, Masabalala Bonnie 'MB' was the Natal Provincial Secretary of the ANC Youth League, lawyer, 1956 Treason trialist, Director of the Luthuli Memorial Foundation.

Tshunungwa, Thembekile Enoch ka

  • ZA-COM-11031
  • Person
Tshunungwa, Thembekile Enoch ka was business person, teacher, National organiser for the ANC and 1956 Treason trialist

South African Coloured People's Organisation

  • ZA-COM-11030
  • Corporate body
  • 1953 -
South African Coloured People's Organisation aimed to unite Coloureds against the efforts to remove them from the common voters roll.The SACPO also collaborated with the African National Congress (ANC) in its campaign against Apartheid. Alex la Guma and Reggie September were two of the SACPO’s founding members, and served as President and Secretary respectively.

British Labour Party

  • ZA-COM-11029
  • Corporate body
British Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

Shoprite

  • ZA-COM-11028
  • Corporate body
Shoprite is Africa’s largest supermarket retailer, operating more than 2,989 stores across Africa. The company's headquarters are in Brackenfell in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Christian Institute

  • ZA-COM-11027
  • Corporate body
Christian Institute is a non-profit, Christian organization based in California. CI's target population is persons who are not affiliated with or may even be apprehensive about going to church.

Strauss, JGN

  • ZA-COM-11024
Strauss, JGN was a South African politician who was the leader of the South African United Party from 1950 to 1956.

Swart, Ray

  • ZA-COM-11023
  • Person
Swart, Ray was a white liberal South African politician who spent his life in opposition to the apartheid policies of the government. He was educated in Durban at Glenwood High School and the University of Natal, where he graduated as a lawyer.

Hughes, Val

  • ZA-COM-11022
  • Person
Hughes, Val is a published author, poet and digital artist.

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.
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