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Bernadt, Vukic, Potash & Getz

  • ZA-COM-10991
  • Corporate body
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.

O'Dowd, AP

  • ZA-COM-10989
  • Person
O'Dowd, AP is a professional first class rugby coach and former New Zealand first class cricketer.

Hahlo, HR

  • ZA-COM-10988
  • Person

Diop, Cheikh Anta

  • ZA-COM-10987
  • Person
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.

Nardella, Dario

  • ZA-COM-10986
  • Person
  • 20 November 1975 -
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.

Parker, Aida

  • ZA-COM-10985
  • Person
Parker, Aida was one of South Africa's best-known political and investigative journalists.

Radford, Betty

  • ZA-COM-10982
  • Person
Radford, Betty was an editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.

Commercial Farmer's Union

  • ZA-COM-10980
  • Corporate body
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.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

  • ZA-COM-10979
  • Person
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.

Malan, Daniel Francois (DF)

  • ZA-COM-10978
  • Person
  • 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.

Armah, Ayi Kwei

  • ZA-COM-10976
  • Person
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.

Giamatti, Bartlett

  • ZA-COM-10975
  • Person
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.

Hayes, Rutherford B

  • ZA-COM-10974
  • Person
  • 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.

Weber, Max

  • ZA-COM-10973
  • Person
  • 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.

Woodson, Carter G

  • ZA-COM-10972
  • Person
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.

Casely Hayford, JE

  • ZA-COM-10971
  • Person
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.

Stokes, Anson Phelps

  • ZA-COM-10970
  • Person
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.

Mellon Foundation

  • ZA-COM-10969
  • Corporate body
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.

Bin Laden, Osama

  • ZA-COM-10967
  • Person
Bin Laden, Osama was a Saudi Arabian-born founder of the Pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda.

Maisels, Isie (QC)

  • ZA-COM-10965
  • Person
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.

Rumpff, Frans Lourens Herman

  • ZA-COM-10964
  • Person
Rumpff, Frans Lourens Herman (Judge) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1974 to 1982.

Pirow, Oswald (QC)

  • ZA-COM-10963
  • Person
  • 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)

  • ZA-COM-10962
  • Person
  • 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.

Mtwana, Ida

  • ZA-COM-10961
  • Person
  • 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.

Long, Ken

  • ZA-COM-10960
  • Person

Blom-Cooper, Louis

  • ZA-COM-10959
  • Person
Blom-Cooper, Louis was a public and administrative law expert who also wrote in English.

Make, Vusumzi

  • ZA-COM-10958
  • Person
Make, Vusumzi was a lawyer and civil rights advocate from South Africa.

Indian Youth Congress

  • ZA-COM-10957
  • Corporate body
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.

De Villiers, Etienne

  • ZA-COM-10956
  • Person
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.

Hooks, Kevin

  • ZA-COM-10955
  • Person
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.

Harewood, David

  • ZA-COM-10954
  • Person
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.

Nyqvist, Michael

  • ZA-COM-10953
  • Person
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.

Kennett, Jason

  • ZA-COM-10952
  • Person
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.

Liquorish, Kate

  • ZA-COM-10951
  • Person
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.

Reddy, Meren

  • ZA-COM-10950
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.

Minnaar, Dawid

  • ZA-COM-10949
  • Person
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.

Lotz, Deon

  • ZA-COM-10947
  • Person
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.

Burnham, Burnham

  • ZA-COM-10944
  • Person
Burnham, Burnham is a former Research Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, United States.

Naylor, Nicolette

  • ZA-COM-10943
  • Person
Nicolette Naylor is a South African feminist human rights lawyer, with a Masters in International Human Rights. In 2007 she joined philanthropy as a Program Officer for Human Rights at the Ford Foundation. In 2015 she assumed the role of Regional Director for Ford Foundation's Southern Africa office. Nicolette has focused on women’s rights as well as the practice of social justice philanthropy and has written extensively about the practice of social justice philanthropy and its contradictions when it comes to power and privilege.

Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)

  • ZA-COM-10942
  • Corporate body
Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) is a non-profit human rights organisation. They work with communities, social movements, individuals and other non-profit organisations in South Africa and beyond to develop and implement strategies to challenge inequality and realise socio-economic rights.

Seipei, James 'Stompie' Moeketsi

  • ZA-COM-10941
  • Person
  • 1974 - 1989
Seipei, James 'Stompie' Moeketsi was a teenage United Democratic Front (UDF) activist from Parys in South Africa.

Feinstein, Charles

  • ZA-COM-10940
  • Person
Feinstein, Charles was a noted South African and British economic historian. He was born in Johannesburg, received his early education at Parktown Boys' High School and studied at Witwatersrand University and Cambridge University where he completed his doctorate.

Barsel, Hymie

  • ZA-COM-10939
  • Person
Barsel, Hymie was a South African activist.

Van Dam, Jan

  • ZA-COM-10935
  • Person
  • 1857 - 1927
Van Dam, Jan was a Dutch painter.

Hammarskold, Dag

  • ZA-COM-10934
  • Person
  • 1905 - 1961
Hammarskold, Dag was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death.

Blyden, Edward Wilmot

  • ZA-COM-10933
  • Person
  • 1832 - 1912
Blyden, Edward Wilmot was a Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician who was primarily active in West Africa. Born in the Danish West Indies, he joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to the country.

Fischer, Percy

  • ZA-COM-10931
  • Person
Fischer, Percy was a South African judge president of the Orange Free State Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He was the son of politician Abraham Fischer and the father of the lawyer Bram Fischer.

Fischer, Ruth

  • ZA-COM-10929
  • Person
  • 1895 - 1918
Fischer, Ruth was an Austrian and German Communist and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party in 1918. She later became a staunch anti-Stalinist activist.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  • ZA-COM-10927
  • Person
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist.

Basotholand National Party (BNP)

  • ZA-COM-10926
  • Corporate body
  • 1959 -
Basotho National Party is a political party in Lesotho, founded in 1959 in colonial Basutoland as the Basutoland National Party by Leabua Jonathan. He was Prime Minister from 1965 until the coup of 1986.

Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM)

  • ZA-COM-10922
  • Corporate body
  • 1893 -
Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM) is an Anglican religious order founded in 1893 by Father Herbert Kelly, envisaged such that members of the Society share a common life of prayer and fellowship in a variety of educational, pastoral and community activities.

Program to Combat Racism

  • ZA-COM-10921
  • Corporate body
Program to Combat Racism was a political programme of the World Council of Churches (WCC) during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Kleinschmidt, Horst

  • ZA-COM-10920
  • Person
  • 17 October 1945 -
Kleinschmidt, Horst was an Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and South African Christian Institute. He was detained under apartheid laws.

Mkhonto, Sparrow

  • ZA-COM-10919
  • Person
  • 24 December 1951 - 27 June 1985
Mkhonto, Sparrow was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and one of The Cradock Four murdered by the South African police in 1985.

Christian Council of Lesotho

  • ZA-COM-10918
  • Corporate body
  • 1965 -
Christian Council of Lesotho is an ecumenical Christian fellowship promoting Christian Faith and serving as a prophetic voice in national unity and social development.

Craig (Reverend)

  • ZA-COM-10916
  • Person
Craig Groeschel is the founder and senior pastor of Life.

Redgrave, Vanessa

  • ZA-COM-10915
  • Person
  • 30 January 1937 -
Redgrave, Vanessa is an English actress and activist.

Tagore, Rabindranath

  • ZA-COM-10914
  • Person
  • 1861-1941
Tagore, Rabindranath was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

World Federation of Democratic Youth

  • ZA-COM-10910
  • Corporate body
World Federation of Democratic Youth is an international youth organization, and has historically characterized itself as left-wing and anti-imperialist.

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