Richard (Rick) Turner was a South African academic, educationist and theorist, who was murdered by the South African security forces in 1978. His killing was part of the public hearings at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), where members of the former security cluster were forced to testify.

The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) was founded on 24 October 1987, as a merger of Municipal Workers' Union of South Africa , Cape Town Municipal Workers' Association (CTMWA), the Municipal workers' sections of General Workers' Union of South Africa, South African Allied Workers' Union and Transport and General Workers' Union. These unions were once individual affiliates of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, to which SAMWU also affiliated. Later SAMWU also incorporated other Municipal Workers Unions from Durban and Johannesburg.

Ronald Edwin Press was born on the 28 August 1929 in Johannesburg. He went to school at the Marist Brother Observatory school, where he matriculated in 1946. He then went to further his education at the University of the Witwatersrand. He graduated in 1951 with a BSc (Chem.Eng.) Cum Laude and in 1952 completed his PhD.

It was in the same year 1952 when he became interested in South African politics, and soon got involved in various political activities. He joined the underground South African Communist Party in 1955, became the Secretary of the South African Textile Workers Union in 1956, and was arrested for Treason in 1956, together with the other 156 trialists.

His political involvement and subsequent arrest led to his dismissal from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1955, where he had held a lecture post in Chemical Engineering. After being banned twice in 1957, he finally left South Africa in 1962 with a one way exit permit.

He settled in the UK with his wife and daughter.

Ron Press became actively involved in the ANCs underground and MK structures. He provided scientific and technical expertise and support, as well as the development of electronic communication systems and services. These activities culminated in the Operation Vula in 1988.

His wife Sybil died in 1989. His daughter's family still live in the UK.

Dr Ronald Press died on the 28 October 2009, he was buried in London on the 5 November 2009.

The National Progressive Primary Health Care Network (NPPHCN) is a national non-government organisation founded in 1987, to advocate for the implementation of a national health system for South Africa based on the principles of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach. It consists of a group of health and development projects, health worker organisations and individuals who are committed to an idea of Progressive Primary Health Care or P.P.H.C.

Grace Dieu was an Anglican training college for native school teachers under the supervision of the Diocese of Pretoria of the Church of the Province of South Africa. It existed from 1906-1958 and went through the stages of being a small missionary settlement, mission school, industrial and domestic science school and teachers training institution. It was founded in 1906 on the farm Jakhalsfontein, 18 miles by road from Pietersburg, by Archdeacon (later Bishop) Fuller as a centre for missionary work in the Transvaal. Inspector W.E.C. Clarke of the Transvaal Education Department suggested a school be started and by 1907 the first principal and students had arrived. The main function of Grace Dieu was to train native teachers to staff the many Anglican mission schools in the Transvaal, as it was the onlyAnglican training college in the dioceses of Johannesburg and Pretoria. It did, however, receive students from all parts of South Africa, the Protectorates and Southern Rhodesia. Chief Leabua Jonathan of Lesotho is e former pupil of this college. The effects of the Bantu Education Act of 1953 were such that the teachers training department was closed in 1955 but Grace Dieu continued as a secondary school, extended to standard 10, and an industrial school from 1956-1958. The Anglican church withdrew because of financial difficulties and because the church felt unable to accept the conditions laid down by the authorities for the registration of the school. The buildings were bought over by the Education Department, The first two principals were C. O'Dell, 1906-1909 and W. B.J. Banks 1909-1912. From 1912-1924 the principal was the Rev. W.A. Palmer (later Dean of Johannesburg), under whom there was considerable development. Succeeding principals were S.P. Woodfield, 1924-1938 and 1953-1957, C.M. Jones 1938-1949, H.W. Hosken 1949-1953 and R.M. Jeffery 1957-1958, all of whom contributed to the development of Grace Dieu, Important occasions in the history of the college were the opening of the 3 halls by the Governor General Lord Buxton in 1916, the dedication the new chapel in 1917, the Hickson Healing Mission of 1922 under the Rev. J. M. Hickson, the inspection of the college Pathfinders by the Prince of Wales 1925, the dedication of the Bell Tower and visit of Princess Alice 1925 and the visit of the Governor General and his wife, Earl and Countess Clarendon in 1932, In addition to training teachers, Grace Dieu had a strong practical function. The carpenter's shop made furniture for the college and the carving department carried out orders for crucifixes, prayer-desks, statues etc., from all over South Africa and overseas, The girls under the sisters of the Community of the Resurrection were trained in all branches of housewifery. Extra-mural activities also played an important part in college 1ife: sporting competitions between the various houses took place, The Pathfinder(Scout) movement had its origin at Grace Dieu in 1922 and later the equivalent girls movement, the Wayfarers, was added.

Zoologist and writer on the historical aspects of science

Jacob Dlamini is a South African historian, author and journalist. He grew up under apartheid in a township outside Johannesburg. He is the author of various books and winner of the Alan Paton Award. He is presently Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University in the United States, and was previously political editor of the newspaper Business Day in South Africa.

Alan MABIN (PhD Simon Fraser, MA Wits, MSAPI) is Emeritus Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, which he directed from 2005 to 2010. He worked in a variety of departments and schools at Wits from 1981 till 2013. Alan has research experience in Brasil, France, Tanzania and South Africa as well as NGO, post apartheid government, and consulting experience. He was a co-founder in 1985 of Planact (NGO) with which he remains associated, played roles in local government negotiations in the early 1990s, was a member and deputy chairperson of the PWV [Gauteng] Demarcation Board 1995-97, and a member and Deputy Chairperson of the Development and Planning Commission 1997-2001. His papers relate mostly to these activities.