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Lewis Sowden

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  • 1903-1974

South African novelist, poet, playwright and journalist at the newspaper Rand Daily Mail.

William Matlala

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  • 20th century -

William Matlala is a freelance photographer specializing in Labour and Trade Union activities, who has served the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in his capacity as photographer particularly in the 1990s.

He was born and grow up in the Dithabaneng village in Mphahlele district Northern province (Limpopo). After leaving school he went to seek employment in Johannesburg. He found himself in Germiston on the East Rand where he worked in Trimpack, a food company. He started as a general worker and later trained as a machine operator. In Trimpack he joined the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) and was elected shop steward as well as chairman of the shop steward committee.

Whilst working in Trimpack he became interested in photography and started corresponding with the African School of Photography in Pretoria, where he obtained a Diploma. Initially he took photographs of colleagues at work and at their home with their families, and became fully involved in community activities particularly after the company closed in 1988. He then underwent more training in the field of photography through the Department of Manpower and later at the Market theather photo workshop and the South African Union of Journalists.

He built a large photographic archive throughout the 1990s, mainly of his own photographs but also of other South African photographers like Anna Zieminski, Cedric Nunn, Santu Mofokeng, Paul Weinberg, Morice Smithers and Abdul Shariff.

Hepple, Bob

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  • 1934-2015

Educated in Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, he became an Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar in 1962. He acted as a legal adviser for Nelson Mandela during his trial for incitement in 1962. He was arrested and charged as one of the Rivonia Trial accused in 1963. When the first Indictment was quashed, he was released and escaped to England in November 1963.

He became a leader and academic in the field of Labour Law, studying and teaching at leading Universities in the United Kingdom. He was awarded honorary doctorates in Law, and in 2004 the honour of Knight Bachelor was bestowed on him for his contributions to legal studies.

Chaskalson, Arthur

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  • 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012

Justice Arthur Chaskalson was the President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005.

Bozzoli, Belinda

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Professor Belinda Bozzoli is Professor of Sociology and the author of single-authored books and journal articles. She was awarded an A-rating from the National Research Foundation of South Africa in 2006.

Belinda Bozzoli completed her undergraduate education in Johannesburg and continued with her MA and DPhil in African Studies at the University of Sussex. She worked at first as a teacher and journalist, but later started her academic career as a junior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she became a Professor in the Department of Sociology. She became Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand in 2002 and was also Senior Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor working on a major research development project for the University. At present Professor Belinda Bozzoli is the DA Shadow Minister for Higher Education and Training.

Henry Brown Marshall

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  • 1852-1948

Henry Brown Marshall was one of the Rand Pioneers, having arrived on the Rand in June 1886. He owned various pieces of land, later known as Marshall town and Melrose.
He was one of the founders of the Rand Club and also started a brewery, which would become part of South African Breweries.
Marshall sympathized with the aims of the Jameson Raid (1895-1896) and eventually joined the Reform Committee. After its failure he left South Africa and settled in Scotland.

Caroline Douglas

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  • 19th century

Daughter of Captain Joseph Hare, and grand-daughter of William Wilberforce Bird and wife of William Douglas.

Schreiner, MC Oliver Deneys

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  • 29 December 1890 - 27 July 1980

Oliver Deneys Schreiner, MC, was a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. One of the most renowned South African judges, he was passed over twice for the position of Chief Justice of South Africa for political reasons.

Brodie, Robert

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  • 21st century

Robert Brodie was one of the senior educators at the Natal College of Education.

Groenink, Evelyn

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  • 1960-

Evelyn Groenink (1960) started her journalism career in the eighties of the last century at a small left-wing newspaper in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As correspondent in Central America during the mid-eighties her reports from that region won her ‘runner up’ in a Dutch award contest for young journalists. After 1987, partly as a result from her association with the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the Netherlands, her journalistic focus changed to South and southern Africa. She was deputy editor for Dutch Anti-Apartheid News when ANC representative Dulcie September was killed in Paris, France, in 1988.
It was this event that prompted her to start investigating how it was possible that an ANC diplomat was assassinated in a Western country that formally abhorred apartheid and was governed by a socialist president at the time. Gradually discovering that the subsequent murder of Anton Lubowski in 1989, and the murder of Chris Hani in 1993, showed similar patterns to what she had discovered in the case of Dulcie September -namely arms deals and related natural resource exploitation-, she developed a specialisation in matters of international arms trade. This led to her taking part in the South African research for the seminal work by Dr Peter Hug on Swiss military collaboration with apartheid in 2005, as a result of which she won a ‘Golden Key’ award for ‘best use of the South African Promotion of Access to Information Act.’ Se also collaborated with the Mail & Guardian with regard to a number of investigative publications on the South African arms deal in 2007.
Having started to collaborate with investigative journalists in other African countries on arms- and other cross-border trade investigations, she co-founded the Forum for African Investigative Reporters in 2003, which grew to a network of 70+ members in 24 African countries. She currently acts as investigative editor for the African Investigative Publishing Collective and its partner ZAM in the Netherlands. In 2016 and 2017, the partnership published transnational African investigations on inter alia the US-dominated “war on terror” on the African continent, witchcraft, land conflicts, misdirected development aid and plunder by African oligarchs.
Evelyn Groenink has published three books on South Africa through Atlas Publishers in the Netherlands (in Dutch): Wonderland, 1996; Dulcie, 2001; and ‘Bij de Blanken is het Beter’ (It’s Better where the Whites are), 2013. “Incorruptible” is her first book in English translation.
She is married to Ivan Pillay and the couple have two daughters, Devi and Vani.
(From the website of Evelyn Groenink: https://evelyngroenink.com)

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