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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.

Arogundade, Dele (Brigadier General)

  • ZA-COM-10770
  • Person
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.

Arrigo, Linda Gail

  • ZA-COM-11163
  • Person
  • 16 January 1949 -
Arrigo, Linda Gail is a political activist from the United States who also works for human rights and academic research in Taiwan. She previously held the position of Green Party Taiwan's officer for international relations.

Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA)

  • ZA-COM-09556
  • Corporate body
It was established in the year 1989 by Alfre Woodard, Danny Glover, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Underwood, CCH Pounder and friends to support the quest to end apartheid in South Africa.

Arts Alive

  • ZA-COM-03582
  • Corporate body

Ashinaga, Yoshiomi Tamai

  • ZA-COM-10639
  • Person
  • 06 February 1935 -
Ashinaga, Yoshiomi Tamai is a Japanese activist, philanthropist, and educator. He is the founder and president of Ashinaga and the founder and headmaster of Kokorojuku dormitory.

Asmal, Kader Abdul

  • ZA-COM-03925
  • Person
  • 8 October 1934 - 22 June 2011
Anti-apartheid activist, academic and politician. An activist from an early age in Natal, he spent many years in exile in Ireland. He has a founder of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, He was a member of the ANC’s Constitutional Committee from its establishment in 1986. Elected to the ANC NEC in July 1991, he served as a minister of water affairs and forestry from 1994 to 1999 and minister of education from 1999 to 2004.

Athill, Diana

  • ZA-COM-10551
  • Person
  • 1917 - 2019
Athill, Diana was one of book publishing’s most remarkable editors, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Auden House

  • ZA-COM-04703
  • Corporate body

Audible

  • ZA-COM-11120
  • Corporate body
Audiblis an American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken word content.

Augustine of Hippo

  • ZA-COM-10745
  • Person
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.

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.

Autshumao

  • ZA-COM-04706
  • Corporate body
  • d.1663
Khoikhoi leader. Learnt English and Dutch and worked as an interpreter during the Dutch settlement of the Cape of Good Hope from 1652. He and two of his followers were banished by Jan van Riebeeck to Robben Island in 1658 after waging war with the Dutch settlers. He was one of the first people to be imprisoned on Robben Island and the only person to ever successfully escape. Also spelt Autshumayo.

Ayesha [surname unknown]

  • ZA-COM-03055
  • Person
see ZA-COM-00001 Amen, Aisha and za com 003200 Amin, Ayesha - could be the same person

Ayob, Ismail

  • ZA-COM-03274
  • Person
  • 1942-

Qualified as a barrister in London and returned to South Africa where he practised law from 1969, acting mainly for opponents of the apartheid regime. He served as an attorney
for Mandela while he was in prison and for some years after his release. The pair split acrimoniously in 2004.

Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA)

  • ZA-COM-04713
  • Corporate body
  • 1961 - 1994
The military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) replacing Poqo which was formed in the 1960s.

Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO)

  • ZA-COM-03056
  • Corporate body
Formed in 1978 after the crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement, sought to fill the political vacuum left by the banning of the ANC and PAC.

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