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Clare College

  • ZA-COM-11076
  • Corporate body
Clare Colleg is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse.e

Rose-Innes, James (Sir)

  • ZA-COM-11073
  • Person
  • 1855-1942
Rose-Innes, James (Sir) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge. Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament, the Cape Colony's Attorney-General, and a prominent critic of Cecil John Rhodes.

Hutt, WH

  • ZA-COM-11071
  • Person
Hutt, WH was an English economist who described himself as a classical economist.

Thomas, Cal

  • ZA-COM-11070
  • Person
Thomas, Cal is an American syndicated columnist, author and radio commentator.

AECI

  • Corporate body
AECI is a leading partner in making mining safer and more efficient for a better world.

Hulamin

  • ZA-COM-11068
  • Corporate body
Hulamin is a South African company based in Pietermaritzburg that specialises in rolled aluminium products for precision and high technology applications. The company supplies a significant proportion of the world's ultra high-end aluminium products.

Trias, Xavier

  • ZA-COM-11066
  • Person
Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera is a Spanish politician, member of the Catalan European Democratic Party and was Mayor of Barcelona from July 2011 to June 2015. Among other responsibilities to the Government of Catalonia, he was Minister of Health and Director of the Presidency for various Jordi Pujol Governments.

Peace Corps

  • ZA-COM-11065
  • Corporate body
Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance.

McCartney, Jason, MP

  • ZA-COM-11063
  • Person
McCartney, Jason, MP is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the member of Parliament for Colne Valley in West Yorkshire since 2019, and from 2010 to 2017. He is a former TV sports reporter.

Queen Nefertiti

  • ZA-COM-11059
  • Person
Queen Nefertiti was a queen of Egypt and wife of King Akhenaton, who played a prominent role in changing Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion to one that was monotheistic, worshipping the sun god known as Aton.

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.
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