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Robinson, James

  • ZA-COM-11186
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Robinson, James is an American football running back for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He played college football at Illinois State and signed with the Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2020, and was traded to the Jets in 2022.

Ali, Laila

  • ZA-COM-11185
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  • 30 December 1977 -
Ali, Laila is a former professional boxer from the United States who boxed from 1999 until 2007. She held the WBC, WIBA, IWBF, and IBA female super middleweight titles throughout her career, from which she retired unbeaten, as well as the IWBF light heavyweight title.

Ancer, Jonathan

  • ZA-COM-11184
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Ancer, Jonathan is a media trainer, author, podcaster, and South African journalist. Uncovering Craig Williamson, a work by him that was on the Alan Paton literary prize longlist, was written. 2019 saw the publication of Ancer's book Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies.ms

Gibbs, Timothy

  • ZA-COM-11183
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Gibbs, Timothy is a famous American filmmaker, actor, producer, and screenwriter who has appeared in television shows and movies such 11-11-11 and The Kings of Brooklyn as Maximilian Sentor.

Bradbury, Ray

  • ZA-COM-11182
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  • 22 August 1920 - 05 June 2012
Bradbury, Ray was a screenwriter and author from America. He wrote in a range of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. He is one of the most well-known American authors of the 20th century.

Gaiman, Neil

  • ZA-COM-11181
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Gaiman, Neil is an English writer of screenplays, comic books, graphic novels, radio plays, and short stories. His writings include the novels Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book as well as the comic book series The Sandman.

Joseph, C

  • ZA-COM-11177
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Mda, Zakes

  • ZA-COM-11176
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Mda, Zakes is the son of politician A. P. Mda and a South African novelist, poet, and playwright. His books and plays have garnered him significant South African and British literary honors. Currently, he supports the Etisalat Prize for Literature.

Haung, Chang-Ling

  • ZA-COM-11174
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Haung, Chang-Ling is a political science professor at National Taiwan University. She is presently engaged in a comparative analysis of East Asian quota politics. She has published articles in a number of academic journals in both Chinese and English, and most recently, she wrote chapters on gender politics for two handbooks.

Eeubank, Chris

  • ZA-COM-11172
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  • 08 August 1966 -
Eeubank, Chris is a former professional boxer from Britain who competed between 1985 and 1998. Between 1990 and 1995, he held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles. According to BoxRec, he is the third-best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.

Children's institute

  • ZA-COM-11168
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Children's Institute is a nonprofit company that offers assistance to children and families in Los Angeles who are recovering from the ravages of familial and societal violence.

Hsin-Huang, Michael Hsiao

  • ZA-COM-11170
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Hsin-Huang, Michael Hsiao is an eminent research fellow at the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

Ming-min, Peng

  • ZA-COM-11165
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Ming-min, Peng was a well-known politician, proponent of Taiwan independence, and fighter for democracy in Taiwan. After being detained for sedition in his native Taiwan in 1964 for publishing a manifesto calling for democracy, he fled to Sweden and eventually accepted a position as a university instructor in the United States.

Arrigo, Linda Gail

  • ZA-COM-11163
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  • 16 January 1949 -
Arrigo, Linda Gail is a political activist from the United States who also works for human rights and academic research in Taiwan. She previously held the position of Green Party Taiwan's officer for international relations.

Cheng, T. J

  • ZA-COM-11162
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Cheng, T. Jearned his bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University, his master's degree from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to serving as a visiting scholar at the University of Tsukuba in Japan and an associate visiting professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he has previously taught at the University of California, San Diego. He was in charge of editing the American Asian Review, a significant refereed quarterly on Asian affairs. He presently serves as the editor of Taiwan Journal of Democracy and is a professor in the 1935 Chair.

Dawes, Andrew

  • ZA-COM-11161
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Dawes, Andrews is a Research Associate of Young Lives and an Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.

Mohale, Gabriele

  • ZA-COM-11160
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Mohale, Gabriele is an Archivist at University of the Witwatersrand.

Embaló, Umaro Sissoco

  • ZA-COM-11159
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  • 23 September 1972 -
Embaló, Umaro Sissoco is a politician from Bissau-Guinea who has been in office as president of Guinea-Bissau since February 2020. He is a former prime minister who held office from November 2016 to January 2018. He is a political scientist and military officer.

Lakdawalla, Emily

  • ZA-COM-11156
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Lakdawalla, Emily is a former Senior Editor of The Planetary Society and an American planetary geologist who blogs and writes on science. She has also held positions as an environmental consultant and a teacher.

Centre for the Advancement of non-racialism & democracy (CANRAD)

  • ZA-COM-11155
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Centre for the Advancement of non-racialism & democracy (CANRAD) at Nelson Mandela University provides an intellectual and social space for debate on the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa as we seek to establish a new non-racial and democratic social and economic order. is a project that addresses crucial local, regional, national, and international issues with the goal of becoming a center of excellence for critical scholarly research on racism, non-racism, and democracy.

Pollak, Joel B

  • ZA-COM-11154
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Pollak, Joel B is a conservative political pundit, author, and lawyer who is of South African descent. He presently works for Breitbart News as senior editor-at-large.

King, Rene

  • ZA-COM-11153
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King, Rene was King of Naples as René I from 1435 to 1442, and he also held the titles of Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 until 1480.

NPY women's council

  • ZA-COM-11152
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NPY women's council is a community-based community organisation, it is led by women's law, authority and culture to deliver health, social and cultural services for Aboriginal people.

Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

  • ZA-COM-11149
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is a non-profit corporation with its main office in Taipei. Originally initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, the foundation's purpose is to promote democracy around the world.

Heaton, Matthew M

  • ZA-COM-11147
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Heaton, Matthew M is an Associate Professor at the Virginia Tech History Department. His areas of study include migration, globalization, and the history of health and illness.

Achaleke, Beatrice

  • ZA-COM-11146
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Achaleke, Beatrice is GloBUNTU Books's founder and acting managing director.

Hassim, Shireen

  • ZA-COM-11145
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Hassim, Shireen is a political scientist, historian, and expert in both gender and African studies who lives in South Africa. She is a professor of the University of the Witwatersrand's Department of Political Studies and a member of the Institute for Social and Economic Research.

Landau, Paul S

  • ZA-COM-11144
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  • 07 October 1962 -
Landau, Paul S is a fellow of the History Centre of the University of Johannesburg and a professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Bak, Greg

  • ZA-COM-11143
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Bak, Greg has worked as a curator and librarian at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies in the past. Ottawa Canada is where he resides.

Schwartz, Joan M

  • ZA-COM-11142
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Schwartz, Joan M is a Rutgers University graduate who also holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She has experience working as an editor at Macmillan Publishing Company, Columbia University Press, and the University of Chicago Press.

Glendinning, Peter

  • ZA-COM-11139
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Glendinning, Peter established the first online art course at Michigan State University and has served as president of the Photo Imaging Education Association International and the Midwest Region of the Society for Photographic Education.

Cowling, Lesley

  • ZA-COM-11140
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Cowling, Lesley is an associate researcher at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town and an associate professor of journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Ebrahim, Ebrahim Ismail

  • ZA-COM-03449
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Ebrahim, Ebrahim Ismail was an Indian-born South African anti-apartheid activist who belonged to the uMkhonto we Sizwe armed branch of the African National Congress. He was convicted of sabotage in the 1963 Pietermaritzburg trials and given a 15-year prison term at the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison.

Moolla, Moosa

  • ZA-COM-00535
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  • 14 June 1934 - 25 March 2023

Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD)

  • ZA-COM-11138
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Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD) is a division of South Africa's Gauteng provincial government. Throughout Gauteng, it is in charge of agricultural affairs, environmental safeguards, and nature preservation.

Johannesburg City Parks

  • ZA-COM-11137
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Johannesburg City Parks is a combined entity as of January 2013 and is recognized by the South African Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008, as amended, as a non-profit organization. It is responsible for overseeing the management of the City of Johannesburg's cemeteries, parks, and designated public open spaces as well as ensuring that its environmental conservation function is carried out, which includes the upkeep of all street and park trees within the City's borders and the Zoo's management of biodiversity through direct conservation action, education, research, and recreation.

Meals on Wheels

  • ZA-COM-11135
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Meals on Wheels is a programme that delivers meals to individuals at home who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals. The name is often used generically to refer to home-delivered meals programmes, not all of which are actually named "Meals on Wheels". Many of the housebound recipients are the elderly, and many of the volunteers are also elderly but able-bodied and able to drive automobiles.

Department of Forest, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)

  • ZA-COM-11136
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Department of Forest, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is mandated to give effect to the right of citizens to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being, and to have the environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations.

PepsiCo

  • ZA-COM-11133
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Literacy4Life

  • ZA-COM-10771
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Literacy for Life is an Aboriginal-run charity training Aboriginal people to bring literacy to their communities, using an innovative, evidence-based, campaign approach that has helped millions around the world and is now delivering results in Australia.

Abrahams, Earl

  • ZA-COM-11130
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Abrahams, Earl is johannesburg based documentary filmmakerand visual artist who runs the UM Media, a creative content agency that provides video based production services.

Clinton, Bill

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  • 1946 -
Bill Clinton is an American politician from Arkansas who served as the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001). He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby-boomer generation President.

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation

  • ZA-COM-11129
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  • 1946 -
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation is a non-profit foundation founded by Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

Harvey, Jo

  • ZA-COM-11128
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  • 1942 -
Harvey, Jo is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio.

Eckhard, Frederic

  • ZA-COM-11127
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Eckhard, Frederic is a Spokesman for the Office of the Secretary-General in the United Nations with 10 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library.

Mills, W. Charles

  • ZA-COM-11125
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Mills, W. Charles was a philosopher who was a professor at Graduate Center, CUNY, and Northwestern University.

Shapiro, Jonathan

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  • 27 October 1958 -
Shapiro, Jonathan is a South African cartoonist, known as Zapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions.

Terril, Marshall

  • ZA-COM-11122
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Terril, Marshall is an American author and journalist.

Richards, Jo Anne

  • ZA-COM-11122
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Richards, Jo Anne is a South African journalist and author.

BBC Studios

  • ZA-COM-11121
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  • 2018 -
BBC Studios is a British content company. It is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that was formed in April 2018 through the merger of the BBC's commercial production arm and the BBC's commercial international distribution arm, BBC Worldwide.

Audible

  • ZA-COM-11120
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Audiblis an American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken word content.

Sizani, Phumelele Stone

  • ZA-COM-11119
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  • 02 March 1954 -
Sizani, Phumelele Stone is a South African politician who was, until his resignation on 2 March 2016, a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa and the African National Congress Chief Whip.

Ludlow, Helen

  • ZA-COM-11118
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Ludlow, Helen was head of History at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg until the end of 2016 lecturing in academic history and methodology.

Mazloomi, Carolyn

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Mazloomi, Carolyn is an American curator, quilter, author, art historian, and aerospace engineer. She is a strong advocate for presenting and documenting African-American-made quilts.

Burnley, A.Q Lawrence

  • ZA-COM-11116
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Burnley, A.Q Lawrence is Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Dayton.

Salgueiro, Luísa

  • ZA-COM-11115
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Salgueiro, Luísa is a Portuguese politician and legal consultant. Between 2005 and 2017, she was a Deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, representing the Portuguese Socialist Party in the Porto constituency.

Tyler, Steven

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Tyler, Steven is an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, piano, and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his high screams and his powerful wide vocal range.
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