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Commission for Gender Equality

  • ZA-COM-10897
  • Corporate body
Commission for Gender Equality is an independent statutory body, established in terms of Section 187, Chapter 9[2] of the Constitution of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996. Their mandate is to promote respect for gender equality and the protection, development and attainment of gender equality.

Israeli Defence Force (IDF)

  • ZA-COM-10894
  • Corporate body
Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and the Israeli Navy.

Jesuits

  • ZA-COM-10893
  • Corporate body

Development Bank of South Africa

  • ZA-COM-10891
  • Corporate body
Development Bank of South Africa is a development finance institution wholly owned by the Government of South Africa.

South African Law Reform Commission

  • ZA-COM-10885
  • Corporate body
South African Law Reform Commission is the continuous reform of the law of South Africa in accordance with the principles and values of the Constitution to meet the needs of a changing society operating under the rule of law.

South African Committee for Higher Education

  • ZA-COM-10884
  • Corporate body
  • 1959 -
South African Committee for Higher Education was founded as an innovative response to the crisis in university education brought about by the National Party government's move to enforce apartheid at university level and thus complete their apartheid design for education.

Theological Education Fund

  • ZA-COM-10883
  • Corporate body
Theological Education Fund combines gifts from Presbyterians for students at Presbyterian seminaries throughout the United States.

KGB

  • ZA-COM-10881
  • Corporate body
KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991. As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, it was attached to the Council of Ministers.

FNLA

  • ZA-COM-10880
  • Corporate body
The National Front for the Liberation of Angola is a political party and former militant organisation that fought for Angolan independence from Portugal in the war of independence, under the leadership of Holden Roberto.

Danish Refugee Council

  • ZA-COM-10877
  • Corporate body
Danish Refugee Council is a private Danish humanitarian nonprofit organization, founded in 1956. It serves as an umbrella organization for 33 member organizations.

National Security Council

  • ZA-COM-10875
  • Corporate body
National Security Council is the President’s principal forum for national security and foreign policy decision making with his or her senior national security advisors and cabinet officials, and the President’s principal arm for coordinating these policies across federal agencies.

Justice and Equality Movement

  • ZA-COM-10867
  • Corporate body
Justice and Equality Movement is a largely Islamist Sudanese armed opposition group seeking national reform and regime change within Sudan.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  • ZA-COM-10866
  • Corporate body
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency and it is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex including pregnancy, transgender status, and sexual orientation, national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

Cradock Four

  • ZA-COM-10865
  • Corporate body
  • 1985 -
Cradock Four were a group of four anti-apartheid activists who were abducted and murdered by South African security police in June 1985, named as such as all four were from the town of Cradock, Eastern Cape.

Peugeot

  • ZA-COM-10864
  • Corporate body
Peugeot is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis.

Gold Fields

  • ZA-COM-10864
  • Corporate body
Gold Fields is one of the world's largest gold mining firms. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, the company is listed on both the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

Guideposts

  • ZA-COM-10862
  • Corporate body
Guideposts is a spiritual non-profit organization that encourages wellness through inspirational content creation.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Perth Group

  • ZA-COM-10779
  • Corporate body
Perth Group is a group of HIV/AIDS denialists based in Perth, Western Australia who claim, in opposition to the scientific consensus, that the existence of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is not proven, and that AIDS and all the "HIV" phenomena are caused by changes in cellular redox due to the oxidative nature of substances and exposures common to all the AIDS risk groups, and are caused by the cell conditions used in the "culture" and "isolation" of "HIV".

Perestroika

  • ZA-COM-10778
  • Corporate body
Perestroika was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform.

General Council of the Bar of England and Wales

  • ZA-COM-10776
  • Corporate body
General Council of the Bar of England and Wales is the representative body of barristers in England and Wales. It acts in matters of general concern to the profession and, through the independent Bar Standards Board, regulates the professional conduct of its members.

Komsomol

  • ZA-COM-10772
  • Corporate body
Komsomol is a syllabic abbreviation of the Russian Коммунистический Союз Молодёжи, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union.

Afro Asian People's Solidarity Committee

  • ZA-COM-10768
  • Corporate body
Afro Asian People's Solidarity Committee s an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the ideals of national liberation and Third World solidarity. The organization is based in Egypt and has around 26-50 staff.

Breathe Films

  • ZA-COM-10766
  • Corporate body
Breathe Films is an independent development and production company focusing on the craft of storytelling for the screen. Whether it's fiction, documentary, corporate or experimental, their philosophy is to surrender to the story that breathes through the work. They apply years of craft and training so it comes out in the most authentic way possible – because that is the only way it can truly speak to an audience.

TEG [Live]

  • ZA-COM-10765
  • Corporate body
TEG [Live] is wholly owned by TEG, Asia Pacific’s leading ticketing, live entertainment and data analytics company. TEG Live is a dynamic and diverse promoter of live content in music, sport, family entertainment, eSports and exhibitions. TEG Live connects millions of fans every year with unique live experiences and adds value to events with hospitality and sponsorship services.

African Leadership Initiative

  • ZA-COM-10764
  • Corporate body
African Leadership Initiative is a Pan-African initiative and born out of a belief that Africa’s future lies in investment in the development of effective, values-based and enlightened African leaders. The purpose of ALI is to develop the next generation of values-based African leaders who are capable of guiding and leading their countries as they struggle to align the demands of globalisation with local visions of “a good society”. The historical and current problems faced by the African continent are well known. ALI aims, in a significant way to reverse this negative trend.

Vietnamese National Liberation Front

  • ZA-COM-10761
  • Corporate body
Vietnamese National Liberation Front is a political organization formed to effect the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government and the reunification of North and South Vietnam.

Merck

  • ZA-COM-10760
  • Corporate body
Merck is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and present in 66 countries. The group includes around 250 companies; the main company is Merck KGaA in Germany.

United Nations Trusteeship Council

  • ZA-COM-10759
  • Corporate body
United Nations Trusteeship Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security. It was established to supervise the administration of trust territories as they transitioned from colonies to sovereign nations.
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