Ahmed Hoosen Deedat Gujarati: અહમદ હુસેન દીદત; Urdu: احمد حسین دیدات 1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005 was a South African writer and public speaker of Indian descent. He was best known as a Muslim missionary, who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible. Deedat established the IPCI, an international Islamic missionary
The Reverend Stephanus Jacobus du Toit 9 October 1847 – 29 May 1911 was a controversial South African nationalist, theologian, journalist and failed politician. In his younger years Du Toit did much to promote the Afrikaans language as a symbol of Afrikaner nationalism. Apart from the years 1882-8 when he was Superintendent of Education in the
Helenard Joe Hendrickse 22 October 1927 – 16 March 2005, popularly known as Allan Hendrickse, was a South African politician, Congregationalist minister and teacher. He participated in an act of defiance by swimming at a South African beach reserved for Whites only. He was born in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape and studied at Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape, where he met key
Denis Eugene Hurley 9 November 1915 – 13 February 2004 was the South African Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Natal and Bishop, and later Archbishop of Durban, from 1946 until 1992. He was born in Cape Town and spent his early years on Robben Island, where his father was the lighthouse keeper. In 1951, Hurley
Inkosi Albert John Luthuli very often spelt Lutuli; c. 1898 – 21 July 1967, also known by his Zulu name Mvumbi (English language: continuous rain), was a South African teacher, activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and politician. In 1952, Luthuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), at the time an umbrella organisation leading opposition to the white minority government in South Africa. Luthuli ended up serving until his accidental
Thabo Cecil Makgoba born 15 December 1960 is the South African Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. He had served as bishop of Grahamstown. Contents 1Biography 2Views 3Political statements 4Awards 5Works 6References 7External links Biography Makgoba graduated from Orlando High, Soweto, and took a BSc degree at Wits University before going to St Paul’s College, Grahamstown to study for the Anglican ministry. He married Lungelwa Manona.
Charlotte Makgomo (née Mannya) Maxeke 7 April 1871 – 16 October 1939 was a South African religious leader, social and political activist; she was the first black woman to graduate with a university degree in South Africa with a B.sc from Wilberforce University Ohio in 1901, as well as the first black African woman to
Robert Moffat 21 December 1795 – 9 August 1883 was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa, father of Mary Moffat Livingstone and father-in-law of David Livingstone, and first translator of the Bible into Setswana. Contents 1Life 2Legacy 3Works 4Notes and references 5Further reading 6External links Life Moffat was born of humble parentage in Ormiston, East Lothian.
Smangaliso Mkhatshwa born 1939 is a Catholic priest.[citation needed] He later became a member of the first post-apartheid parliament (1994) and then mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. He was succeeded as mayor in 2005 by Gwen Ramokgopa. History[edit] Mkhatshwa was arrested under the Internal Security Act after the Soweto uprisings (1976) and detained for four months. In 1977 he
Andrew Murray 9 May 1828 – 18 January 1917 was a South African writer, teacher and Christian pastor. Murray considered missions to be “the chief end of the church”. Contents 1Early life and education 2Residence in Utrecht 3Religious work in South Africa 4Death 5Works 6References 7External links Early life and education Andrew Murray was