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Brodie, Robert

  • Pessoa
  • 21st century

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

Groenink, Evelyn

  • Pessoa
  • 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)

Matshikiza, John Anthony

  • Pessoa
  • 1954-2008

John Matshikiza, 1954-2008, was a creative artist who not only worked and wrote as a journalist but composed music and poetry, wrote many plays for the stage, screen TV and radio, was a working actor, director and producer. He spoke several languages, including fluent French and spent considerable time in different parts of the African continent as well as the USA, UK and Europe.

John Anthony Matshikiza was born in South Africa in 1954 to Esme and Todd Tozama Matshikiza. With the family going into exile in 1961, John grew up in London in Zambia. John was schooled in both countries and attended university in Lusaka. He later moved to the UK where he studied acting / drama and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Compay, performing many roles and also working in television and film. In the 1970s he helped form Mayibuye, a cultural group of the African National Congress. He also lived in the US, Amsterdam and various African countries including Senegal, where he was culture director of the Goree Institute.

On his return to South Africa in the early 1990s he became involved in theatre, mainly the Market Theatre, television, drama as well as factual, event production and public speaking.

John Matshikiza died in 2008.

Errol Vawda

  • Pessoa

Dr Errol Vawda was born in Newcastle in 1929. After completing his high school education at Sastri College in Durban he enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand, where some of the progressive lecturers influenced the development of his political and social ideas. During his studies at Wits he became increasingly aware of discriminatory practices, not only at the University, but also in the wider South African society. When Vawda graduated as medical doctor (as a specialist radiologist), he was employed at McCord's Hospital in Durban. After a few years he went back to his hometown of Newcastle and later opened a private practice in the small town of Brits, where he was only black doctor in town. He moved to Durban, where he settled permanently. He became active in non-racial sports administration. Vawda was involved with non-racial South African Soccer Federation and was leading as a president for a number of years the South African Table Tennis Board, the only internationally recognized non-racial sporting code during the apartheid years. He was elected Deputy President for Table Tennis in Africa and represented both South Africa and Africa at many international table tennis forums. Errol Vawda held other executive positions in the South African Council of Sport (SACOS), which at the time led the way in boycotting all South African sporting activities at international level until there was a free and liberated South Africa. He also played an important role among medical practitioners in Durban, arguing that health of individuals and communities are fundamentally determined by political and economic circumstances, which inevitably requires political and policy interventions. While leaving and working in Durban, Vawda was involved with the independent non-racial trade union movement in the 1980's in their struggle to secure healthy working conditions for their members, and often performed X-ray diagnoses at his own expense. Dr Errol Vawda died in October 1993.

Moumbaris, Alexandre

  • Pessoa
  • 20th century

Alexandre (Alex) Moumbaris, born in Egypt to Greek parents, began his political life in England as a member of the British Communist Party and later the South African Communist Party. He also joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), and together with his wife Marie-José became part of what is now known as the internationalist underground group ‘London Recruits’, for which they received the South African National Order “Sabotage Campaign Medal” in 2012.
Alex and Marie-José Moumbaris were arrested on the 19 July 1972 while trying to cross the border from Botswana to South Africa during an MK operation, together with other members of MK. They were secretly detained for 4 months, before ‘Alexandre Moumbaris and 5 Others’ were charged under the Terrorism Act in January 1973. Marie-José, who was pregnant at the time with their first child, had been released through international pressure and deported to France in September 1972. Alex Moumbaris was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on the 20 June 1973, which he started serving in the Pretoria Local Prison.
On the 11 December 1979 Alex Moumbaris and two other prisoners, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, made a daring escape from Pretoria Central Prison. After a dangerous and exhausting journey they eventually arrived in Lusaka, where they were received by OR Tambo, and for the first time appeared publicly about their escape during a press conference on the 14 January 1980. He then joined his wife Marie-José and their son Boris in Paris. Their daughter Chloé was born on the 11 December 1982, the third anniversary of his escape from prison.
Alex Moumbaris continued his political work as part of the French national and the wider international South African liberation movement, as a communist, internationalist and humanist. The Government of the Republic of South Africa awarded him with the Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo in Silver in 2014, which is awarded “to those who have actively promoted the interests and aspirations of South Africa through outstanding cooperation, solidarity and support”.

Hunt, Donald Rolfe

  • Pessoa
  • 20th century

Sub-Native Commissioner, Northern Transvaal, Native Affairs Department of the Republic of South Africa, in the early 20th century.

Paddock, Billy

  • ZA-COM-00638
  • Pessoa

Weinberg, Paul

  • ZA-COM-02542
  • Pessoa

Herd, Richard Jeffrey

  • Pessoa
  • 20th century

Richard Jeffrey Herd was the Chief Fire Officer in Benoni, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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