Nkosi Johnson born Xolani Nkosi; 4 February 1989 – 1 June 2001 was a South African child with HIV and AIDS who greatly influenced public perceptions of the pandemic and its effects before his death at the age of 12. He was ranked fifth amongst SABC3’s Great South Africans. At the time of his death, he was
Sandra Laing born 26 November 1955 is a South African woman who was classified as Coloured by authorities during the apartheid era, due to her skin colour and hair texture, although she was the child of at least three generations of ancestors who had been regarded as white. At the age of 10, she was
Isabel Jean Jones was an English-born South African consumer journalist, best known for her consumer rights programme Fair Deal. She died in Johannesburg on 11 March 2008, after being admitted to the hospital on 7 March 2008. She had previously been admitted to hospital in December 2007, where she had undergone open heart surgery. Contents 1Biography 2Death 3References 4Other references Biography
John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS 7 April 1884 Blindburn, Northumberland – 2 September 1972 London was an English botanist, taxonomist and author. Contents 1Life and career 2Awards 3Personal life 4First Southern Africa trip August 1928 – April 1929 5Second African trip June 1930 – September 1930 6List of selected publications 6.1Books 6.2Articles 7See also 8References
Emily Hobhouse 9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926 was a British welfare campaigner, feminist, and pacifist. She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer civilians during the Second Boer War. Contents 1Early life 2Second Boer War 3Conditions in
Ncoza Dlova is a South African dermatologist. In 2019, she helped discover a new gene that is a major cause of permanent hair loss amongst women of African descent. She is currently the dean and the first African woman to head University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Clinical Medicine. Contents 1Early years and education 2Career 3Works 4Recognitions 5References
Denise Darvall 27 February 1942 – 3 December 1967 was the donor in the world’s first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard. Injuries Denise Darvall was seriously injured in a car accident on Main Road in Observatory, Cape Town. She and her family were visiting friends for afternoon tea and went shopping
Nozipho Bhengu 1974 – 19 May 2006 was a South African woman whose death from an AIDS-related illness intensified the controversy about how AIDS is treated in South Africa. Nozipho was well known in South Africa for her openness about her illness as well as her refusal to take conventional medical treatment for AIDS in favour of
Chief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima 26 December 1918 in Qamata – 10 November 2000 was a leader of the Transkei bantustan in South Africa, a young brother of Kaiser Matanzima and a nephew of Nelson Mandela. He and his brother, Kaiser co-founded and led the Transkei National Independence Party. George Matanzima was appointed as Prime Minister of Transkei after his
Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope 27 December 1923 – 18 January 2018 was the leader of the Bantustan (homeland) of Bophuthatswana. The territory he ruled over was distributed between the Orange Free State – what is now Free State (province) – and North West Province. He was also the founder and leader of the United Christian Democratic Party, a political party based in the North West of South