With cartoons by Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro)25/9/24
This is a strange collections of people connected to South African, so well known others never heard of .
Chris Barnard 1922 to 2004 he was the first to do a heart transplant at Groot Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The first patient Blaaiberg only lasted 5 days after the transplant. The second Washkansky survived 3 weeks but died of pneumonia . These were people who knew that they would die without surgery. Suddenly Barnard became the most famous surgeon in the world , the team did not realize the enormity of their achievement. A later patient lived 23 years after the drug immunosuppressant Cyclosporine was brought into use. This did not have the side effects of the earlier medicines to stop rejection. Barnard later divorced his wife with 2 children and had 2 more marriages each with 2 children.
Chris Hani 1946 to 1977 He set up the black consciousness movement got got the world black substituted for native, bantu etc. He was the only black leader around when Mandela and others were in jail or exile. He was a well educated academic and the police basically decided to kill him. 20 years later 5 police at the Truth and Reconciliation admitted this. Helen Zilla exposed the coverup and Donald Woods wrote the book Biko which became the move Cry Freedom. Donald Woods had to go into exile.
Margaret Calvert 1936 born in Durban and moved to England aged 14. First in Britain an later all over the world her standard signage took over, she worked with Jock Kineir . The typeface called Calvert was used and signs for roads , railways airports all used her standard. The pictures of children crossing the road or men at work.
Winston Churchill 1864 to 1965 The book mentions that his SA Boer War experience made him. The people who organized his escape saw the sentre and remained behind. He was due to be released in any case as he was not a combatant but he never mentioned that.
Johnny Clegg 1953 to 2019 Created black music that became known world wide he saw himself as a white Zulu. singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist. He had a Jewish mother and lived in Yoeville where he got a black worker to teach him their music.
JM Coetzee 1940 Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003. His novel Disgrace is the most important book on post apartheid SA.
Alan Cormack1924 to1988 Inventor of the CAT scan.
Basil d Olivier1931to 2011 SA top cricket player who had to live in Britain because he was colored and became an embarrassment to the apartheid government.
Ernie Else 1969 Top Golf player and philanthropist.
Brenda Fassie 1964 to 2004 Queen of Kwela and Madonna of the township African top class singer entertainer.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 to 1948 He learned his craft of passive resistance to colonialism in 19 years in S. Africa.
Herschelle Gibbs1974 Top SA cricketer.
John Heschel 1792 to 1871 In the Cape set up the SA Astronomical Observatory and documented the southern sky from there.
Waddy Jones 1974 Singer , entertainer.
Nishingwayo Khuza 1810 to 1883 He beat Lord Chelmsford at the Battle of Islandwana 1879 at the very beginning of the Zulu wars.
Simeon Khambula 1800s Xhosa fighter who helped the British in the Battle of Roukes Drift
Chad le Clos 1962 Gold medal Olympic swimmer in 2812
Albert Luthuli 1898 to1967 He tried to peacefully bring about a normal South Africa, Led the ANC and received Nobel peace prize.
Winnie Mandela 1936 to 2018 Wife of Mandela. While he was in jail she was powerful and represented him but afterwards she was a trouble maker and he divorced her in 1996.
Miriam Makeba 1932 to 2008 She reach the top of the world music scene as the voice of African music but lived in exile most of her working career.
Sailor Malan 1910 to 1963 Leading pilot and legend in Second World War in Britain.
Nelson Mandela 1918 to 2013 Died aged 95 First President of post apartheid South Africa between 1994 to 1999.
Thaba Mbeki 1942 President that followed Mandela 1999 to 2008. He is also in the 50 people who stuffed up South Africa.
Eric Merrifield 1914to 1982 and Aubrey Kruger 1935 They were harbour engineers that deisigned the dolos a large concrete shape that you drops a few hundred togehter and they act as a wave break, now used worldwide.
King Moshoeshoe 1 1822 to 1870 He build up the Sotho Nation by giving shelter to all who fled the Shaka or other tribes and the Boers to the mountains of Thaba Bosiga. Then asked the British to make it a protectorate of Basutoland.
Elon Musk 1971 High tech billionaire was born in S. Africa
Mama Nthatisi 1781 to1836 Founded the Tlokwa tribe in the Caledon lands of the OFS but were know as the Manthtisi .
François Pienaar 1967 The Captain of the Springbok Rugby team who Mandela gave full encouragement to win the World Cup Rugby when it took place in South Africa in 1995. Mandela saw this as a means to unite all the races in South Africa.
Oscar Pistorius 1986 The blade runner. He was a successful legless sportman but became notorious as he murdered his wife. Known as the blade runner.
Sol Plaatje 1876 to 1932 Polyglot and founder of the ANC and wrote the Nkisi sekelele Africa.
Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela
Lucas Radebe 1969 Leading soccer player for S.A. and also played in Leeds United.
Cyril Ramaphosa 1952 President of SA since 2018
Sixto Rodriguez 1942 to 2023 Unknown American pop singer who sold in South Africa and so finally became famous 30 years later. Set the music of the SA protest movement.
Ampie Roux 1914 to 1985 South Africa's leading physicist.
Ryan Sandes 1982 Sports runner of marathons'
Jody Scheckter 1950 Formula One Ferrari winner and businessman
Caster Semenya 1991 She won 800 meter race in Athletics world Championship
Shaka1789 to 1828 unified tribes into the Zulu nation. He was known as the Black Napoleon and conquered all the tribes around him.
Mark Shuttleworth 1973 the youngest billionaire and paid $ 20 million to go into space.
Walter1912to2003 and Albertina Sisula1918 to 2011 She was a nurse and he had a white father. The shared the freedom struggle together. She works for women's rights. She mothered her own children and those of Mandela's first marriage whle their husbands were in jail. The were considered South Africa's greatest love story.
Jordy Smith1988 Surfing king.
Jan Smuts 1870 to 1950 Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa between 1919 and 1924 and between 1939 and 1948, before apartheid.
Irma Stern 1894 to 1966 An S. African artist whose painting fetch the highest prices on world market. Leading portrait painter.
Max Theiler 1899 to 1972 a medical man who discovered the cause of malaria.
Charlize Theron 1972 Afrikaans speaker who became a leading Hollywood actress. She mastered an American accent.
Desmond Tutu 1931 to 2021 Became secretary of the SA Council of Churches in 1973 Awarded Nobel prize in 1984. After the association of Chris Hani in 1993 helped keep the calm when he talked about the Rainbow nation of Africa. Mandela appointed him to head the Truth and Conciliation Commission.
Pieter Dirk Uys.1945 Entertainer.
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