Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys was born on 5 February 1935 in Kroonstad. In 1952 he matriculated at the Hoerskool Voortrekker in Bethlehem and in 1953 he registered as a student at the Learning Gymnasium. There he was selected as a candidate officer and at the end of 1956 he obtained the grade B(Mil) at the University of Pretoria as a Second Lieutenant.
After being an officer-instructor at 1 Special Service Battalion and the SA Training College for seven years, he was appointed on 1 January 1964 as Staff Officer Information at Training Headquarters. At this stage he already held the rank of Major and, among other things, he successfully completed three military courses abroad as well as the staff service course at the SA Military College.
On 1 November 1967 he was promoted to Commandant and in November 1969 to Colonel. Shortly after this he was appointed Senior Staff Officer Operations at Command South West Africa. In this he served until October 1973 when he was appointed Commander of Command South West Africa and was simultaneously promoted to Brigadier. On 1 December 1974 he became Chief of Staff for Intelligence and later Director of Operations, in February 1976 Chief of Staff for Operations with the rank of Major General. In August 1977, he became the Commanding General Command South West Africa, and he held this position until he was appointed as the Head of the SA Army on 7 October 1980 with the rank of General. On 1 November 1985 he was promoted to General as Chief of the SA Armed Forces.
General Geldenhuys had, among others, the Order of the Star of South Africa, the Southern Cross decoration, the SA Police Star for outstanding service, and the Southern Cross medal. He was married to Marie Martins and the couple had four children. He died on the 10 September 2018 in George.

The artist Madelaine Georgette was born in New York in 1947, and lived in South Africa for the first 27 years of her life. The project "A Just Society" was supported in part by public and private grants in the USA.

Babette Kabak was Madelaine Georgette's mother, who lived in Johannesburg for many years. She was an activist and involved in the American Field Service Organisation.

Clive Glaser lectures in History at Witwatersrand University, South Africa. He has published widely on the history of youth politics, youth culture, crime and sexuality in South Africa.

Dr. Henry Gluckman, former Minister of Health and Housing; President of the Timber Trade Federation (1958-1966); Chairman of the South African Wood Council (1964); Director of Hillman Bros; President of the National War Memorial Health Foundation.

Chief Housing Engineer, Johannesburg City Council

Colin Goodman was the Chief Housing Engineer at the Johannesburg City Council.

The daughters of Jewish immigrants, Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 in Springs, a small town on the East Rand of Johannesburg. She went to a Convent school and later studied for a year at the University of the Witwatersrand without taking a degree. In 1948 she moved to Johannesburg, where she lived all of her life.

She began writing at the young age of nine and her first story was published in a South African magazine when she was only fifteen. Her first collection of short stories was published in 1949. "Face to Face" and the first novel "The Lying Days" appeared in 1953. Nadine Gordimer is an author of fourteen novels, thirteen story collections, five non-fiction collections, several volumes of essays, four film scripts derived from her fiction, and three documentary film scripts. She achieved lasting international recognition for her works and her awards include fifteen honorary doctorates , 11 literary awards and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Her novels and short stories have been published in 40 different languages.

Concerned about racial and economic inequality in South Africa from an early age, Nadine Gordimer joined, and became an active member of the African National Congress. During the Apartheid era she regularly took part in anti-Apartheid demonstrations in South Africa, and while travelling internationally spoke out against Apartheid, discrimination and political discrimination. She also resisted censorship and state control by serving on the Steering Committee of the Anti-Censorship Action Group.

In the post-Apartheid era, Nadine Gordimer continued to write about the effects of Apartheid and life in South Africa after 1994, and was active in the HIV/AIDS movement.

Nadine Gordimer died on the 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg.

Historical note relating to Radio ANC, as remembered by Lionel S. Gray. Being a member of the South African Communist Party since 1962, and a Lecturer of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, he was approached by the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) to develop a radio transmitter. One of his radio transmitters was found at Liliesleaf Farm during the raid in 1963 and subsequently became an exhibit in the Rivonia Trial 1964.

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)