Yengwa, Masabalala Bonnie 'MB'
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- 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.
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People and Organisations- ZA-COM-11033
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Tshunungwa, Thembekile Enoch ka
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Tshunungwa, Thembekile Enoch ka was business person, teacher, National organiser for the ANC and 1956 Treason trialist
South African Coloured People's Organisation
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Strauss, JGN was a South African politician who was the leader of the South African United Party from 1950 to 1956.
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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.
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Bureau of State Security (BOSS)
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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.
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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.
National War Memorial Health Foundation
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Johannesburg Indian High School
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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 was the Robben Island warder when Nelson Mandela while serving a prison sentence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whitney Museum is a museum of art located in Manhattan, New York City's Meatpacking District and West Village.
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Starbucks is a Seattle, Washington-based global coffee shop and roastery business in the United States. The largest chain of coffee shops exists worldwide.
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- 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.
Ntsangani, Milner Bonakele Fred
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Brooks, Gushwell is the current Nelson Mandela Foundation Head of Mandela Day and Public Outreach.
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Blackburn, Molly was a politician, civil rights activist, and anti-apartheid crusader from South Africa who was well-liked by both blacks and whites.
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Schwartz, Harry was an editorial writer for The New York Times from 1951 to 1979 and a specialist in Soviet and East European affairs.
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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.
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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.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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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.
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World Council of Churches is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism.
United Free Church of Scotland
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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.
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O'Dowd, AP is a professional first class rugby coach and former New Zealand first class cricketer.
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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.
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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.
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Parker, Aida was one of South Africa's best-known political and investigative journalists.
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Radford, Betty was an editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.
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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.
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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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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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- 1864 - 1920
Weber, Max was considered as one of the most significant thinkers of the evolution of contemporary Western society. He was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist. His theories have a significant impact on social theory and research.
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Woodson, Carter G was a journalist, historian, and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in the United States. He was among the earliest academics to research the history of the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans.
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Casely Hayford, JE was a well-known journalist, editor, author, lawyer, politician, and supporter of pan-African nationalism from the Fante Gold Coast. One of the first books written by an African author and published in English was his 1911 book Ethiopia Unbound.
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Stokes, Anson Phelps was a well-to-do American businessman, banker, real estate developer, genealogist, and philanthropist. He was the son of James Boulter and Caroline Stokes, both of New York City. One of the 13 founding members of the London Missionary Society and a London businessman, Thomas Stokes, was his paternal grandpa.
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Mellon Foundation is a private foundation with five main areas of interest that was endowed by Andrew Mellon of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Mellon family.
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Bin Laden, Osama was a Saudi Arabian-born founder of the Pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda.
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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.
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Rumpff, Frans Lourens Herman (Judge) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1974 to 1982.
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- 14 August 1890 - 11 October 1959
Pirow, Oswald (QC) was a South African lawyer and far right politician, who held office as minister of Justice, thereafter minister of Defence.
Conco, Wilson Zamindlela 'Zami' (Dr)
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- 1919 -
Conco, Wilson Zamindlela 'Zami' (Dr) was a medical doctor, national treasurer of the ANC Youth League in 1950s, member of the ANC, 1956 Treason trialist.
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- 1903 - 1960
Mtwana, Ida was elected to the ANC Executive Committee, the first president of the ANC Women's League, national president of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), and a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial.
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Blom-Cooper, Louis was a public and administrative law expert who also wrote in English.
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Make, Vusumzi was a lawyer and civil rights advocate from South Africa.
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The Indian Youth Congress is the Indian National Congress party's youth branch. From the time right following India's 1947 Partition until the late 1960s, the Indian Youth Congress was a division of the Indian National Congress.
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De Villiers, Etienne is a business executive and investor in international media and sports. He is the CEO of DataEQ, a well-known South African company that conducts opinion research.
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Hooks, Kevin is an American actor, director, and producer. He is well-known for his work in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but he is perhaps best known for his portrayal as Morris Thorpe in the TV series The White Shadow.
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Harewood, David is a British presenter and actor. His most well-known performances include those of J'onn J'onzz, Martian Manhunter, and Hank Henshaw, Cyborg Superman in Supergirl, as well as CIA Counterterrorism Director David Estes in Homeland.
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Nyqvist, Michael acted in Swedish films. He received his training at the Malmö School of Drama. He rose to fame by playing police officer Banck in the Martin Beck TV series from 1997 to 1998 and by starring in the 2002 movie Grabben I graven bredvid.
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Kennett, Jason is a South African actor best known for his 2010–2011 appearance in the M-Net soap opera Binneland Sub Judice as bistro owner Emilio Castignani.
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Liquorish, Kate is a South African actress who has received numerous nominations for best actress and best supporting actress at the renowned Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards for her theatrical work.
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Reddy, Meren is a celebrated writer, producer, and actor who has achieved success both nationally and internationally in each of these fields. Acting roles in Clint Eastwood's "Invictus" and the TV series "Homeland" are among Meren's international credits.
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Minnaar, Dawid is a playwright and actor from South Africa. He began his theatrical career in the 1980s and went on to play a number of well-known characters in television series like 7de Laan, Amalia, and Binnelanders.
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Lotz, Deon is a South African film, television, and theatre actor. He is perhaps best known internationally for roles in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Beauty. He has appeared in both English- and Afrikaans-language productions.
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