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Allan Boesak Biography
Allan Aubrey Boesak is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in...
Danie Craven Biography 1910 – 1993
Daniël Hartman Craven was a South African rugby union player, national coach, national and international rugby administrator, academic, and author.
Popularly known as Danie, Doc,...
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Biography 1876 – 1932
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. Plaatje was a founder member and first General Secretary of...
Zola Pieterse Biography
Zola Pieterse is a South African middle-distance and long-distance runner. She competed at the 1984 Olympic Games for Great Britain and the 1992 Olympic...
Enoch Sontonga Biography 1873 – 1905
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was a South African composer, who is best known for writing the Xhosa song "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", which, in an abbreviated...
Bruce Fordyce Biography
Bruce Noel Stevenson Fordyce is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete. He is best known for having won the South African Comrades Marathon...
Doctor Khumalo Biography
Theophilus "16v" Doctorson Khumalo, also known as Doctor Khumalo, is a South African former soccer player. He is best known for being a star...
Zackie Achmat Biography
Abdurrazack "Zackie" Achmat is a South African activist and film director. He is a co-founder of the Treatment Action Campaign and is known worldwide...
Harry Oppenheimer Biography 1908 – 2000
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was a prominent South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist. Oppenheimer was often ranked as one of the wealthiest people in the...
Alan Paton Biography 1903 – 1988
Alan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the...