Began as the Weekly Mail, an alternative newspaper by a group of journalists in 1985 after the closure of two leading liberal newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express. The Weekly Mail criticised the government and its apartheid policies, which led to the banning of the paper in 1988. The paper was renamed the Weekly Mail & Guardian from 30 July 1993. The London-based Guardian Media Group (GMG), the publisher of The Guardian, became the majority shareholder of the print edition in 1995, and the name was changed to Mail & Guardian.
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.
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.
He was clerk and ex-miner. Majoro was instrumental in formimg the African Mineworkers' Union. Majoro later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the trial that followed the 1946 mine strike. He was an organizing secretary of the Orlando branch of the African National Congress (ANC) during the mid-1940s.
Prophet and warrior. He was imprisoned on Robben Island for leading an attack on Grahamstown. In 1819 Makana with about thirty other prisoners, attempted to escape from Robben Island in three boats. The boats capsized and Makana, while marshalling and urging his men to swim to shore, drowned. The island is sometimes referred to as Makana Island with Makana being a lasting symbol of resistance.
Ismail Makda was been employed as a law clerk at the firm James Kantor and Partners in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He testified for the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial.
Political activist, Chairman of the African National Congress Youth League Branch, Secretary of the Laundry Workers Union and member of uMkhonto weSizwe.
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.
Soldier and politician. In 1976, he became chief of the South African Defence Force and four years later minister of defence. He left office in 1991, following revelations of secret government funding to the Inkatha Freedom Party and other opponents of the ANC. In 1995 he was charged with other former senior military officers – and eventually acquitted – with responsibility for a massacre at KwaMakutha in Natal.
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.
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the black community.
