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Beatrice, Princess

  • ZA-COM-10860
  • Person
Beatrice, Princess is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. Born fifth in line of succession to the British throne, she is now ninth.

Glencore

  • ZA-COM-10857
  • Corporate body
Glencore is an Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. Glencore's oil and gas head office is in London and its registered office is in Saint Helier, Jersey. The current company was created through a merger of Glencore with Xstrata on 2 May 2013.

Minority Front

  • ZA-COM-10856
  • Corporate body
Minority Front is a political party in South Africa. The party represents all minorities of South Africa, however, its support comes mainly from the South African Indian community. Its voter base is in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

Minorco

  • ZA-COM-10855
  • Corporate body
Minorco was a mining company based in Luxembourg. It was set up by the South African Anglo American Corporation in 1987 to hold its non-African, non-diamond mining operations.

Motshekga, Angie

  • ZA-COM-10852
  • Person
  • 19 June 1955 -
Motshekga, Angie is a South African politician and educator serving as the Minister of Basic Education since May 2009. She was also appointed as an acting president of the Republic of South Africa on 2 July 2021, as President Cyril Ramaphosa attended the state funeral of Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia.

Haswell, Robert

  • ZA-COM-10850
  • Person
  • 1954 - 2018
Haswell, Robert was an early American maritime fur trader to the Pacific Northwest of North America. His journals of these voyages are the main records of Captain Robert Gray's circumnavigation of the globe. Later during the Quasi-War he served as an officer in the United States Navy.

Hani, Godfrey

  • ZA-COM-10849
  • Person
Hani, Godfrey is an experienced HR Executive and Corporate Executive with a demonstrated successful history of working in the Automotive Industry and in the Transport Industry.

Kaka, Luthando

  • ZA-COM-10847
  • Person
Kaka, Luthando is event director of the Legacy Ride4Hope. He also captains and co-founded a Professional Cycling Team.

Society of the Precious Blood

  • ZA-COM-10844
  • Corporate body
  • 1815 -
Society of the Precious Blood is a fraternal community of priests and brothers founded by St. Gaspar.

Pivovary Topvar

  • ZA-COM-10843
  • Corporate body
Pivovary Topvar is a beer brewing company in Slovakia. The company was created by the merger of the Saris and Topvar breweries on 1 January 2007, after both were purchased by global brewing giant SABMiller in 2006.

Rotary Club of Sea Point

  • ZA-COM-10842
  • Corporate body
Rotary Club of Sea Point is a non-profit organisation affiliated with Rotary International. It serves the Cape Town Sea Point community.

Cape Bar

  • ZA-COM-10840
  • Corporate body
Cape Bar is a society of advocates of the High Court of South Africa. Its members each a specialist in litigation, practise independently.

Tiso Blackstar Group ( Pty) Ltd website

  • ZA-COM-10839
  • Corporate body
Tiso Blackstar Group ( Pty) Ltd website is a global company with its roots in Africa, operating market-leading media, broadcast and retail marketing properties.

Jewish Theological Seminary

  • ZA-COM-10835
  • Corporate body
Jewish Theological Seminary is a Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.

Richmond, Duchess of

  • ZA-COM-10833
  • Person
Duchess of Richmond is the wife of the Duke of Richmond, an extant title in the Peerage of England that has been created four times, originally in 1525.

Medu Art Ensemble

  • ZA-COM-10832
  • Corporate body
Medu Art Ensemble was establuished by a group of cultural workers from the townships that fled into exile in Gaborone, Botswana. Medu ran units specialising in music, theatre, graphics and visual arts, photography; and "research and production" (writing).

Canterbury, Archbishop of

  • ZA-COM-10831
  • Person
Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

Harris, JL

  • ZA-COM-10828
  • Person
Harris, JL is the co-author of The Providence Series, The Catalyst Series, and Sincerely, Grace. She is also an editor and proofreader who blogs about the writing craft and editing processes.

Hertzog, Barry (JBM)

  • ZA-COM-10827
  • Person
  • 06 April 1866 - 21 November 1942
Hertzog, Barry (JBM) was a South African politician and soldier. He was a Boer general during the Second Boer War who served as the third prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939.

Sophocles

  • ZA-COM-10825
  • Person
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.

Mass Democratic Movement (MDM)

  • ZA-COM-10823
  • Corporate body
Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) this was a loose alliance of anti-apartheid groups that formed in 1988 when the apartheid government placed restrictions on the United Democratic Front and other activist organizations. The MDM, made up of UDF and ANC supporters, then emerged as an even wider more amorphous front to resist apartheid.

Hitler Youth

  • ZA-COM-10824
  • Corporate body
Hitler Youth was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend in July 1926.

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.

British South Africa Company

  • ZA-COM-10815
  • Corporate body
  • 1889 -
British South Africa Company’s function was to take the risk of extending the infrastructure of modern capitalism (including railways) into south-central Africa for the benefit of the British but without the cost’s falling on the British taxpayer. Unlike normal companies, the BSAC was permitted to establish political administration with a paramilitary police force in areas where it might be granted rights by local rulers.

Christian Science Monitor

  • ZA-COM-10806
  • Corporate body
Christian Science Monitor is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition. It was founded in 1908 as a daily newspaper by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist.

American Committee for Africa

  • ZA-COM-10805
  • Corporate body
  • 1953 -
American Committee for Africa was dedicated to supporting African liberation struggles and informing the American public about African issues. As one of the first national organizations dedicated to anti-colonial struggles in Africa, the organization played host to countless African leaders in the United States. Martin Luther King served on the national committee from 1957 until his death.

The Elders

  • ZA-COM-10803
  • Corporate body
The Elders is an international non-governmental organisation of public figures noted as senior statesmen, peace activists and human rights advocates, who were brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. They describe themselves as independent global leaders working together for peace and human rights.

Black Consciousness

  • ZA-COM-10801
  • Corporate body
Black Consciousness was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.

Ramohloki, Nomahlozi

  • ZA-COM-10791
  • Person
  • 2000 -
Ramohloki, Nomahlozi is a bright-eyed and ambitious young woman that was born in a rural place called Qwaqwa, in the Free State.She pursued her degree in International Studies (Majoring in Political Science) at the University of Pretoria and graduated in April 2021. Nomahlozi’s life revolves around education, information and being in positions of motivation and leadership. She is currently the Mandela day cordinator at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

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Msimang, Sisonke

  • ZA-COM-10797
  • Person
Msimang, Sisonke is a South African writer, activist and political analyst based in Perth, Western Australia, whose focus is on race, gender, and politics.

Motsekuoa, Tshepang

  • ZA-COM-10796
  • Person
Motsekuoa, Tshepang is the current Nelson Mandela foundation Head of communication and marketing department.

Operation Green Vegetables

  • ZA-COM-10789
Operation Green Vegetables is a project approved by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries with the target to stabilise the supply of tomato, onion and potato crops (TOP crops) in India, as well as to ensure their availability around the country, year-round without price volatility.

Ukhozi FM

  • ZA-COM-10790
  • Corporate body
Ukhozi FM is a South African national radio station & owned by SABC, based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal that caters to the needs of the Zulu-speaking community. Founded in 1960, it is the largest radio station in South Africa and Africa. The station has a broadcasting license from ICASA. Ukhozi means "eagle" in Zulu.

Group of Eight

  • ZA-COM-10788
  • Corporate body
  • 1994 -
Group of Eight formerly and subsequently Group of 7 (G7), intergovernmental organization that originated in 1975 through informal summit meetings of the leaders of the world's leading industrialized countries. The United States, the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan.

Kidi Amin

  • ZA-COM-10786
  • Person

Lloyds of London

  • ZA-COM-10785
  • Corporate body
Lloyds of London generally known simply as Lloyd's, is an insurance and reinsurance market located in London, United Kingdom. Unlike most of its competitors in the industry, it is not an insurance company rather, Lloyd's is a corporate body governed by the Lloyd's Act 1871 and subsequent Acts of Parliament.

Li Hsien-Nien

  • ZA-COM-10783
  • Person
  • 23 June 1909 - 21 June 1992
Li Hsien-Nien was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, President of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988 under Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping and then Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1988 until his death.
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