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Rupert, Johann

  • ZA-COM-01893
  • Person
  • 1 June 1950 -
Businessman. One of South Africa’s wealthiest and influential business leaders, who took over and expanded a family business started in the 1940s.

Mboweni, Tito

  • ZA-COM-01882
  • Person
  • 1959–
Anti-apartheid activist, politician and banker. Left South Africa in 1980 and joined the ANC in exile in Lesotho. Returned to South Africa in 1990 after the unbanning of the ANC. Minister of labour in Mandela’s cabinet from 1994 to July 1998. Appointed head of the ANC’s Policy Department, 1998, which was responsible for managing ANC policy processes. Upon joining the South African Reserve Bank in July 1998 as adviser to the governor, he resigned all of his elected and appointed positions in the ANC. Appointed governor in 1999. Appointed international adviser of Goldman Sachs International, June 2010.

Greg, Ali

  • ZA-COM-01858
  • Person

Commission of Inquiry (Cameron Commission)

  • ZA-COM-01842
  • Corporate body
  • 1994-1995

President Nelson Mandela appointed Edwin Cameron as an acting judge of the High Court to chair a commission of inquiry into illegal arms sales by Armscor, operating as the sales arm of the SANDF, to Yemen.

Institute for the Study of Public Violence (ISPV)

  • ZA-COM-01840
  • Corporate body
  • 1993-1994

The Institute for the Study of Public Violence, also known as the Goldstone Institute, was established in 1993 with the aim to document and research the work of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation. In 1994, after the closure of the Goldstone Commission, the Institute was re-constituted and became the independent non-governmental Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA).

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

  • ZA-COM-01839
  • Corporate body
  • 1995-1998
Established by Mandela in 1995 as a way for South Africa to heal after decades of brutal abuse in the apartheid era.The work of the TRC was done through the Human Rights Violation Committee investigating human rights abuses occurring from 1960 to 1994; the Reparation and Repatriation Committee dealing with compensation and the Amnesty Committee would consider granting amnesty from prosecution to those perpetrators provided they make full disclosure and acted politically. In 1998 the TRC delivered its report to Mandela, and completed its work in 2003.

Transitional Executive Council (TEC)

  • ZA-COM-01837
  • Corporate body
  • January 1994-1997
Established in 1993 as a multiparty council to facilitate the transition to democracy. The TEC was to level the playing field and create a climate for free political activity in the run-up to the elections in April 1994. The TEC was made up of a management committee and several sub-councils: law and order; stability and security; defence; intelligence; foreign affairs; status of women; finance; and regional, local government and traditional authorities.
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