Feetham was appointed deputy town clerk of Johannesburg in October 1902; he served under the town clerk, Lionel Curtis, who was a friend from his New College days. In April 1903 Feetham became the town clerk when Curtis was made Assistant Colonial Secretary. Two years later, in April 1905, Feetham resigned from the Town Council and was appointed to the South African Bar; he acted as legal adviser to the High Commissioner of South Africa from 1907-1910, and again from 1912-1923. In 1907 Feetham began his political career as a member of the Transvaal Legislative Council (1907-1910). In 1915 he was elected to the Union House Assembly as a Unionist for the Parktown constituency in Johannesburg; he later became a member of the South African Party. During World War I, Feetham gained a commission in the South African Cape Corps and served in East Africa and briefly in Egypt (1916-1918). Feetham resigned from Parliament in 1923 to take silk, and was appointed to the bench of the Transvaal Division of the Supreme Court. In 1930 he was appointed Judge President of the Natal Provincial Division, and in 1939 became Judge of Appeal in Bloemfontein. In 1938, Feetham was elected vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and became its chancellor in 1949. He was also appointed chairman of various commissions both in South Africa and abroad including the Southborough Committee on Constitutional Reform in India (1918-1919), the Irish Boundary Commission (1924-1925), the Kenya Local Government Commission (1926), the Shanghai Municipal Council Commission (1930-1931), the Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Commission (1932-1935), and the Witwatersrand Land Titles Commission (1946-1949).

Leibl Feldman 1896-1975

He was born on 8 June 1896 in Skopiskis, northern Lithuania. He was the second son of Joseph and Minnie Feldman. He came to South Africa in 1910 at the age of 14. His education took place at the Jewish Government School, Johannesburg. Leibl went into partnership, in a small shop trading under the name of Feldman & Stein. After a year Stein sold out to Leibl. The firm then became L. Feldman and survived under this name for 40 years.

Trade did not occupy all his interest and energy. He was a man of wide interests and a strong social conscience. After the World War I he became involved with the Jewish War Victims Relief Fund. In November 1918 he was instrumental in founding a branch of the Socialist-Zionist Poalei Zion Party in Johannesburg. In the late 1920s he became involved in the Organisation for Rehabilitation and Training (ORT). The aim of the body was to reconstruct the nature of Jewish life all over the world. In 1929 he joined the Jewish Workers Club which was anti- Zionist. In 1932 he married Shura Miller. They had one son and two daughters.

When World War II broke out he became involved in the South African Jewish war appeal. In 1946 he volunteered to join the South African Jewish Board of Deputies which visited the Displaced Persons camp in (?).

Richard Feldman was born on September 15, 1897, the son of Joseph and Minnie Feldman, in Lithuania and came to South Africa at the age of 13. His education took place at the Jewish Government School, Johannesburg. He joined the family firm of L. Feldman and Tobacco & General Supplies Ltd., where he rose to be a director. In 1931 he married Freda Ginsburg and had one son and one daughter. He died on 14th February, 1968, after a long illness.

He was a man of wide interests and with a strong social conscience. After the first world war he became Chairman of the Doornfontein Branch of the Jewish War Victims Fund. His sympathy for the underdog led him to join the South African Labour Party and he was secretary of the Party's Organizing Committee before being elected to the Transvaal Provincial Council in 1943, a position he held for 11 years. He was a member of the Central Rand School Board and his interest in education, both European and non-European, showed itself in many ways.

For several years he was an executor of the Morris Isaacson Education Fund, which grants bursaries to deserving African students. This fund had its origin in the Peretz School for Africans, which Feldman established earlier and which was incorporated into the Isaacson Fund.

The South African Ort. Oze was another body which benefited from Feldman's enthusiasm and he played a vital role in developing Ort (Society for the Promotion of handicrafts and of industrial and agricultural work among the Jews) in South Africa.

All his life Feldman was a writer and was a contributor of articles to the daily press on a wide variety of subjects. His abiding love was for the Yiddish language which he had learnt as a boy. In 1935 he had published in Warsaw a volume of short stories in Yiddish entitled Schwartz un Weiss.

These stories had as their theme the difficulties of living experienced by the non-Europeans in South Africa. After the second World War a second and enlarged edition of his work was brought out.

Fiona Macleod is an award-winning journalist, who worked as the Environmental reporter working for the newspaper Mail & Guardian, South Africa. She also published and edited various environmental magazines.

Abram ("Bram") Fischer was a leading Afrikaner advocate, defence lawyer in the 1956 Treason trial and the 1964 Rivonia trial, a member of the South African Communist Party and the Congress of Democrats.

House of Assembly, Cape Town

Dr Ephraim L. Fisher, The United Party's chief spokesman on health and M. P. for Rosettenville, born in Johannesburg in 1906, educated at King Edward VII College and received his medical training at Witwatersrand University and St. Bartholomews Hospital, London. He has lived and worked in the southern suburbs since then. He was a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council from 1949-1958 and became chief whip of the U. P. Caucus. He won the Rosettenville parliamentary seat in 1958 and since then has always championed the under-privileged.

His special political interests include hospitalization and mine worker education. In the economic sphere he has always arrived at the banishment of fear of oppression and injustice in the minds of all South African citizens.

He has frequently called for a revision of the public health services and advocated the incorporation of a new scheme for pensions for the aged and infirm. One of his most significant contributions in politics was getting a select committee on hospitalization in the Transvaal.

Through his efforts too that Provincial Council agreed to a Select Committee on horse-racing.

In his younger days he played cricket and football for his university and hospital. He married Miss Anne Misell and had a daughter, Mary.

The all-white South African Football Association, later known as Football Association of South Africa (FASA), was formed in 1892. SAFA was admitted to the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) in 1952. Later in 1956 SAFA changed its name to FASA, deleting the race exclusion clause from its Constitution. That and FASA's affiliation with the South African Bantu Football Association (SABFA) in 1958 would allow FIFA to officially recognise FASA as the sole governing body of soccer in South Africa. But in 1960 the Confederation of African Football (CAF) expels South Africa, which was followed by FIFA's suspension of FASA in 1964. The FIFA Congress in Montreal in 1976 finally decided on the total expulsion of FASA, after South Africa had already been expelled from the Olympic movement in 1970.

FASA together with other National Football bodies in South Africa unified in 1991 to become the South African Football Association (SAFA), allowing South Africa to join FIFA and international soccer again in 1992.

The Foundation for Human Rights was established in 1996 through a cooperation agreement between the European Union and the South African Government by signing the European Union Human Rights Programme. The aim of the Foundation is to address the historical legacy of Apartheid, support the transformation of South Africa and to build a human rights culture using the Constitution of South Africa as a tool. It receives funds primarily from the European Union as well as other donors such as DCI, Mott Foundation and Care International. The members of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation are all prominent South Africans, and include representatives of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and the European Union.

The first EU-founded programme covered the period between 1996 and 2000 and the second between 2001 and 2007. During the second programme the Foundation has made a few significant changes. The first was a name change from the European Union Foundation for Human Rights to the Foundation for Human Rights- reflecting that Foundation is an indigenous organization. It was also agreed that the Foundation would expand its funding base. The second major change was the recognition that the organization should be lead by a South African - Yasmin Sooka.