90 Notable alumni of
University of Pretoria
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The University of Pretoria is 595th in the world, 11th in Africa, and 3rd in South Africa by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 90 notable alumni from the University of Pretoria sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Elon Musk
- Occupations
- entrepreneurprogrammerbusinesspersoninvestorengineer
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Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect, and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, chairman, and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring Company and xAI; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation. He is the second wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$232 billion as of December 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $182.6 billion according to Forbes, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
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Maye Musk
- Occupations
- dietitianmodel
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Maye Musk is a model and dietitian. She has been a model for 50 years, appearing on the covers of magazines, including a Time magazine health edition, Women's Day, international editions of Vogue, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She is the mother of Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. She holds Canadian, South African, and American citizenship. She is a registered dietitian.
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Caster Semenya
- Occupations
- middle-distance runner
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Mokgadi Caster Semenya OIB is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 World Championships, where she also won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres. After the doping disqualification of Mariya Savinova, she was also awarded gold medals for the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.
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Motsi Mabuse
- Occupations
- choreographerdancertelevision presenter
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Motshegetsi "Motsi" Mabuse is a South African-German dancer. She is known for appearing on the German dance competition Let's Dance, originally as a professional dancer, and later as a judge on the show, a position she has held since 2011. Since 2019, she has served as a judge on the British version, Strictly Come Dancing.
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Joost van der Westhuizen
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Joost van der Westhuizen was a South African professional rugby union player who made 89 appearances in test matches for the national team, scoring 38 tries. He mostly played as a scrum-half and participated in three Rugby World Cups, most notably in the 1995 tournament, which was won by South Africa. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest scrumhalves of all time.
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Handré Pollard
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Handré Pollard is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the South Africa national team and Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby. His regular playing positions are fly-half, where he started for South Africa in their 2019 Rugby World Cup Final win, and inside-centre. He has previously played for the Bulls and Blue Bulls in his native South Africa, Osaka Red Hurricanes in Japan and Montpellier in France. He is one of 43 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions, 24 of whom are South Africans.
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Duhan van der Merwe
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Duhan van der Merwe is a rugby union player who currently plays for Edinburgh Rugby in the United Rugby Championship. Born in South Africa, he represents Scotland at international level.
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CJ Stander
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Christiaan Johan Stander is a South African-born Irish former rugby union player. Stander's career began in his native South Africa, where he played for the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup between 2010 and 2012 and for the Bulls in Super Rugby in 2012. He moved to Irish province Munster in 2012 and, after qualifying via residency in 2015, made his debut for Ireland in 2016, going on to earn 51 caps for his adopted country, as well as 1 cap for the British & Irish Lions in 2017, before retiring in 2021.
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Victor Matfield
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Victor Matfield is a South African former professional rugby union player. He played for and captained the South Africa national team (Springboks) as well as the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup and the Bulls franchise in Super Rugby. He is generally considered one of the best locks to have ever played for South Africa and had a long successful partnership with Springbok and Blue Bulls teammate Bakkies Botha.
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Pik Botha
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a liberal within the party, Botha served to present a friendly, conciliatory face on the regime, while criticised internally. He was a leading contender for the leadership of the National Party upon John Vorster's resignation in 1978, but was ultimately not chosen. Staying in the government after the first non-racial general election in 1994, he served under Mandela as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs from 1994 to 1996.
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Constand Viljoen
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
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General Constand Laubscher Viljoen was a South African military commander and politician. He co-founded the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front) and later founded the Freedom Front (which in turn merged into the Freedom Front Plus before the 2004 election). He is partly credited with having prevented the outbreak of armed violence by disaffected white South Africans prior to post-apartheid general elections.
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Herman Mashaba
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Herman Samtseu Philip Mashaba is a South African politician, entrepreneur and the current president of ActionSA, a party he launched on 29 August 2020. He served as the Mayor of Johannesburg from 2016 to 2019. He is the founder of the hair product company Black Like Me. He is famous in South Africa for his background: he grew up struggling against poverty, and claims to have struggled against the apartheid government, to open his own hair business, which became the biggest hair brand in South Africa, making him a millionaire. He publicly backed Mmusi Maimane in the Democratic Alliance leadership race. He wrote the autobiography Black Like You and his campaign manager, Michael Beaumont, recently published a biography called "The Accidental Mayor". Mashaba refers to himself as a libertarian and "capitalist crusader" whose highest value is "individual freedom."
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Cameron van der Burgh
- Occupations
- swimmer
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Cameron van der Burgh OIS is a retired South African competitive swimmer and hedge fund analyst. He is Africa's first home-trained world record holder and individual male Olympic Champion. He is married to long time partner Nefeli Valakelis.
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Naas Botha
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Hendrik Egnatius 'Naas' Botha is a South African former rugby union player, who played for Northern Transvaal and South Africa (the Springboks).
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Antjie Krog
- Occupations
- journalistpoettranslatorwriter
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Antjie Krog is a South African writer and academic, best known for her Afrikaans poetry, her reporting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and her 1998 book Country of My Skull. In 2004, she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape as Extraordinary Professor.
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Akani Simbine
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
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Akani Simbine is a South African sprinter specialising in the 100 metres event. He was fifth at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 metres and was the 100 metres African record holder with a time of 9.84 seconds set in July 2021 until broken by Ferdinand Omanyala in September 2021.
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Fourie du Preez
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Petrus Fourie du Preez is a South African former professional rugby union player. He played as a scrum half for the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup competition and the Bulls in Super Rugby between 2002 and 2011, and for Japanese Top League side Suntory Sungoliath between 2011 and 2016. He represented South Africa between 2004 and 2015, winning 76 caps, playing in three Rugby World Cup tournaments, and winning the 2007 competition.
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Bongani Khumalo
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Bongani Sandile Khumalo is a South African retired footballer who last played as a centre-back for Bidvest Wits and the South Africa national team.
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Lalela Mswane
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Lalela Lali Mswane is a South African model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Supranational 2022. She was previously crowned Miss South Africa 2021 and participated at the Miss Universe 2021, placing second runner up.
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Pierre Spies
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Pierre Johan Spies is a retired South African rugby union player. He usually played as a Number 8, but could also play as a flanker and at times was deployed on the wing. Between 2005 and 2015, he spent the majority of his career playing Super Rugby for the Bulls and domestic South African rugby for the Blue Bulls, followed by stints in the Japanese and French rugby championships. He represented South Africa internationally between 2006 and 2013.
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Koos Kombuis
- Occupations
- songwriterwritermusiciansinger
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Koos Kombuis is a South African musician, singer, songwriter and writer who became famous as part of a group of anti-establishment maverick Afrikaans musicians, who, under the collective name of Voëlvry (directly translated meaning "Free as a bird"; in Afrikaans "voëlvry" is synonymous to the words "fugitive" and "outlaw"), toured campuses across South Africa in the 1980s, to "liberate Afrikaans from the shackles of its past". Fellow musicians of this movement were Johannes Kerkorrel and Bernoldus Niemand (James Phillips).
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Koos du Plessis
- Occupations
- poetsongwriterwritersinger
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Jacobus Johannes du Plessis (10 May 1945 – 15 January 1984) was a prominent South African singer-songwriter and poet, colloquially known as Koos Doep. Although he received critical acclaim for much of his work, he became best known for the runaway success of a rendition of his song "Kinders van die Wind" ("Children of the Wind") by Laurika Rauch.
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Melinda Bam
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodel
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Melinda Bam is a South African TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 2011, becoming the official representative of her country to Miss Universe 2012. She has a swimwear line called Bambshell, for which she worked with South African swimwear brand.
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Tshilidzi Marwala
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Tshilidzi Marwala is a South African artificial intelligence engineer, a computer scientist, a mechanical engineer and a university administrator. He is currently Rector of the United Nations University and UN Under-Secretary-General. In August 2023 Marwala was appointed to the United Nations scientific advisory council.
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Rohan Janse van Rensburg
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Rohan Janse van Rensburg is a South African professional rugby union player for South African United Rugby Championship side the Sharks. His regular position is inside centre.
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Ummy Mwalimu
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ummy Ally Mwalimu is a Tanzanian politician belonging to the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. She is currently a Member of Parliament for Tanga Constituency and also serves as the Minister of Health, Seniors and Children. She has held various cabinet positions since 2010. She is a third-term Member of Parliament, firstly appointed to a seat reserved for women in the parliament of Tanzania in 2010.
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Natasha Mazzone
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Natasha Wendy Anita Mazzone MP OSI is a South African politician who served as the Chief Whip of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly of South Africa from October 2019 until August 2022. She has been a Member of the National Assembly, representing the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), since 2009. She was the second Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the DA and the party's spokesperson on state capture. Mazzone has previously served as Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises and of Communications.
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Michael R. Licona
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Michael R. "Mike" Licona is an American New Testament scholar, author, and Christian apologist. He is Professor of New Testament Studies at Houston Christian University, Extraordinary Associate Professor of Theology at North-West University and the director of Risen Jesus, Inc. Licona specializes in the resurrection of Jesus, and in the literary analysis of the Gospels as Greco-Roman biographies.
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Mignon du Preez
- Occupations
- cricketer
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Mignon du Preez is a former South African cricketer, who was the women's team captain in all three forms of cricket, Test matches, ODIs and T20Is, from 2007 to 2018. A right-handed batter and occasional wicket-keeper, du Preez made her debut for the South Africa national women's cricket team in January 2007, aged seventeen. Besides being the South African player with most matches as captain in both ODIs and T20Is, she is the highest run-scorer for South Africa women in ODIs and T20Is. In April 2022, du Preez announced her retirement from Test and ODI cricket, allowing her to focus on the shorter format of the game and spend more time with her family. In December 2022, she further announced her retirement from T20Is, but confirmed her continued availability for domestic T20 leagues.
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Frederick Brownell
- Occupations
- heraldistvexillologist
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Frederick Gordon Brownell was a South African herald, vexillologist, and genealogist.
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Gerhard van den Heever
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Gerhard Jacobus van den Heever is a South African-born Japanese rugby union player for the Sunwolves in Super Rugby and Kubota Spears in the Top League. His regular playing position is as a wing.
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Mimi Coertse
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Maria Sophia Coertse, DMS (born 12 June 1932) is a South African soprano.
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Kipchumba Murkomen
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- politician
- Biography
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Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen is a Kenyan lawyer. He is the Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport, and Public Works in Kenya. He served as the senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County from 2013 to 2022.
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Solly Msimanga
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Solly Tshepiso Msimanga is a South African politician serving as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2019. He has been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since February 2019, having previously served from 2014 to 2016. Msimanga was the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality from 2016 to 2019 and the DA Provincial Chairperson from 2014 to 2017. He is currently the Democratic Alliance's Gauteng Premier candidate for the 2024 elections. Msimanga was the party's unsuccessful candidate for the 2019 elections.
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Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
- Occupations
- middle-distance runnerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi OIB was a South African middle distance runner, and the 2009 world champion in the men's 800 metres.
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Johannes Geldenhuys
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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General Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (5 February 1935 – 10 September 2018) was a South African military commander who served as Chief of the South African Defence Force from 1985 to 1990.
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Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi
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- ministerpolitician
- Biography
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Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi is a South African politician who was the Minister of Public Service and Administration from June 1999 to September 2008. Before that, from July 1996 to June 1999, she was Minister of Welfare and Population Development. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2008 and is a former deputy chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP).
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Sindisiwe van Zyl
- Occupations
- physicianbroadcastercolumnist
- Biography
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Sindisiwe van Zyl, was a Zimbabwean-born South African physician, radio DJ, columnist, health activist and researcher known for using social and mainstream media to share HIV-related, mental health, reproductive health, other medical and public health information. She won several awards for her work. Because of her extensive public health advocacy, she was known as "the people's doctor".
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Wynand Olivier
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Wynand Olivier is a former South African professional rugby union player.His usual position was at centre.
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Godfrey Khotso Mokoena
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Godfrey Khotso Mokoena OIB is a South African athlete who specializes in the long jump and triple jump.
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Eugene Cussons
- Occupations
- primatologist
- Biography
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Eugene Cussons was the Managing Director of "Chimpanzee Eden" as well as Rescue Director of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in South Africa. He is also the host of Animal Planet's Escape to Chimp Eden, author of the book Saving Chimpanzees and is the Executive Director and Ambassador of the "Generation Now" movement.
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Carrol Boyes
- Years
- 1954-2019 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Carrol Boyes was a South African artist, businesswoman, and former teacher, best known as the founder of the Carrol Boyes Kitchen and eating utensil design company.
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L. J. van Zyl
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
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Louis Jacobus van Zyl, better known as L. J. van Zyl, is a South African athlete competing in the 400 metre hurdles. He is the South African record holder in the event with a personal best of 47.66 seconds, which he achieved twice, three months apart. His time ranks him in the all-time top 25. He is a three-time African Champion in the event and competed for his country at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Amanda Strydom
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Amanda Strydom is a South African singer and songwriter. Although she is known best for her singing, Strydom has also been active as a playwright and actress, most notably in the fields of cabaret and also in television.
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Gary Botha
- Occupations
- rugby union playerrugby league player
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Gary van Ginkel Botha is a former rugby union player, that professionally played as a hooker between 2002 and 2013. He spent the majority of his career at his home-town team the Blue Bulls and their affiliated Super Rugby team the Bulls, but he also had spells at the Sharks, at English side Harlequins and at French Top 14 side Toulouse. He also played in 12 test matches for South Africa from 2005 to 2007.
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Ernst Roets
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- filmmakerwriterpolitical activist
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Ernst Alex Roets is a writer and filmmaker in South Africa. He is Deputy CEO of AfriForum and the CEO of the film production company Forum Films.
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Christof Heyns
- Years
- 1959-2021 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- university teacherjurist
- Biography
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Christoffel Hendrik Heyns was a Professor of Human Rights Law, Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and a South African member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2010 to 2016. Heyns was a visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2006–2012).
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Stevens Mokgalapa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stevens Mokgalapa is a South African politician who served as the Mayor of Tshwane from 2019 to 2020. A former member of the Democratic Alliance (DA), he served as a Member of the National Assembly from 2009 to 2019. Within the DA's Shadow Cabinet, he served as Shadow Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation from 2009 to 2012, as Shadow Minister of Human Settlements from 2012 to 2014 and as Shadow Minister of International Relations and Co-operation from 2014 to 2019.
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Nana Oye Lithur
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Nana Oye Bampoe Addo was formerly known as Nana Oye Lithur. She is a Ghanaian barrister with over 30 years experience and a politician. She is a renowned Human Rights advocate.
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Sipho Sepamla
- Occupations
- novelistshort story writerpoet
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Sydney Sipho Sepamla was a contemporary South African poet and novelist.
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Anselm van der Linde
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Anselm van der Linde O.Cist. is a Cistercian abbot of the common observance, an Austrian citizen born in South Africa. He was Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau from 2009 to 2018.
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Jacques Cronjé
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Jacques Cronjé is a former South African rugby union footballer who played as a loose forward for the Springboks and for Racing Métro 92 Paris in the French Top 14. He is the brother of Geo Cronjé, who also played for South Africa.
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Joan Hambidge
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Joan Helene Hambidge, is an Afrikaans poet, literary theorist and academic. She is a prolific poet in Afrikaans, controversial as a public figure and critic and notorious for her out-of-the-closet style of writing. Her theoretic contributions deal mainly with Roland Barthes, deconstruction, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and metaphysics.
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Kudzanai Chiurai
- Occupations
- painterprintmakervideo installation artist
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Kudzanai Chiurai is a Zimbabwean artist and activist. His repertoire of art combines the use of mixed media which involves the use of paintings, drawings, videos and photographs to address and tackle social, political and cultural issues in Zimbabwe.
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Hilgard Muller
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
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Hilgard Muller, was a South African politician of the National Party, Mayor of Pretoria in 1953–1955, elected an MP in 1958, appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs after the resignation of Eric Louw in 1964. He relinquished both posts in 1977. Studying at the University of Pretoria, he obtained a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford, earning a doctorate in law. Practicing law in Pretoria, he was elected to Pretoria city council in 1951, becoming Mayor of the city two years later. He relinquished his city council seat in 1957, being elected to House of Assembly the following year for Pretoria East. He chose not to run for his seat again in 1961, instead being appointed South African ambassador in London, but returned to parliament in 1964 immediately to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph OIB is a South African composer, pianist and teacher. She was the first woman in South Africa to obtain a doctorate in composition. She arranged the composition of the South African national anthem and also wrote its final verse.
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Calie Pistorius
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Carl Wilhelm Irene Pistorius (born 9 August 1958) is a South African electrical engineer who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. He announced, on 1 August 2016, that he would be stepping down from this role at the end of January 2017. His successor at Hull was Professor Susan Lea.
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Phiwa Nkambule
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- business executivecomputer scientistInternet entrepreneurchief executive officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Phiwa Nkambule is a technology entrepreneur and technology businessperson. He is the co-founder and CEO of FinanceGPT Labs. He previously founded Riovic and Cybatar, and sat on the board of the Royal Science and Technology Park.
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Charl du Plessis
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Charl Petrus du Plessis is a South African classical and jazz pianist. He is one of five South African Steinway artists and has won two South African Music Awards in 2017 and 2018. For the past 20 years he has been the pianist for South African singer-songwriter Nataniël. He is also the founder and pianist of the Charl du Plessis Trio which includes Werner Spies (bass) and Peter Auret (drums).
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Stefan Swanepoel
- Occupations
- motivational speaker
- Biography
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Stefan J. M. Swanepoel, is an American business executive, author and real estate businessperson. He has served as president of two non-profit organizations and seven companies, including a New York-based global franchise network. He is most known as a business and trends author, having written more than 20 books and reports. His books have been listed on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
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Dire Tladi
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Dire Tladi is a professor of international law at the Department of Public Law and the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria. He is also extraordinary professor at the Public Law Department of the University of Stellenbosch. He has served as the Principal State Law Adviser for International Law for the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation and Legal Counsellor to the South Africa Mission to the United Nations.
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Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi is a South African classical soprano. She first came to public notice as a member of the opera band Amici Forever.
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Amitabh Mitra
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Amitabh Mitra is an Indian-born South African physician, poet and artist, whose paintings depict dramatised stick figures.
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Johan van Heerden
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Johannes Petrus van Heerden is a Romanian rugby union player of South African background. He plays as lock, and occasionally flanker.
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Albert Geyser
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Albertus Stephanus Geyser (10 February 1918 – 13 June 1985) was a South African cleric, scholar and anti-apartheid theologian. Geyser became an outcast in the white Afrikaner community because of his theological opposition to apartheid and to the Broederbond, the secret male Calvinist organisation that covertly steered South African politics during the apartheid era. He obtained master's and doctoral degrees cum laude, specializing in Greek and Latin. At the age of 27 he was appointed lecturer, and a year later, professor in the Theological Faculty of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk at the University of Pretoria. Geyser contributed to the first annotated edition (1953–1958) of the Bible in Afrikaans, founded the Christian Institute, and was the first South African to be elected as a member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
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Clare Akamanzi
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Clare Akamanzi is a Rwandan lawyer, public administrator, businesswoman and politician, who served as the executive director and chief executive officer of the Rwanda Development Board From February 2017 to September 2023. The position is a cabinet-level appointment by the President of Rwanda. She has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer for NBA Africa where she is going to start in 23rd January 2024, following a resignation by the former CEO Victor Williams.
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Carla Gericke
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Carla Gericke is an author, activist, and attorney. Born in South Africa, she immigrated to the United States in the 1990s after winning a green card in the Diversity Visa Lottery. She became a U.S. citizen in 2000. Gericke practiced law in South Africa, and California, working at Apple Computer, Borland, Logitech, and Scient Corporation. Gericke is President Emeritus of the Free State Project. In 2014, she won a landmark First Circuit Court of Appeals case that affirmed the First Amendment right to film police officers. That same year, she was named one of New Hampshire Magazine's "2014 Remarkable Women" In 2016, Gericke ran as a Republican for New Hampshire State Senate in District 20 against Democrat Lou D'Allesandro, garnering 40% of the vote in the general election. In 2018, after a successful recount on a write-in campaign on the Libertarian Party's ballot, she ran as a fusion Republican/Libertarian candidate and received 42% of the vote, up two percentage points in a year when District 20 swung 12–15% left due to the "Blue Wave." In 2020, Gericke ran again against D'Allesandro in District 20 and again lost, this time by a vote tally of 13,548 to 10,479, or approximately 56–44%.
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Paul Bosch
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Paul Bosch is a professional German rugby union player, of South African origin. He usually plays as a centre.
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Burger Lambrechts
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Burger Lambrechts is a South African shot putter.
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Marang Molosiwa
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- entrepreneurfilm directorphilanthropistactorchild actor
- Biography
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Marang Rami Molosiwa is a Botswana actor who was the host to the TV programme "Mantlwaneng". She appeared in MTV Shuga in 2020 as the only actor from Botswana.
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Austin Roberts
- Occupations
- zoologistornithologist
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Austin Roberts was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa, first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the region: his work The mammals of South Africa was published posthumously in 1951. The 7th edition of Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa which appeared in 2005, is the standard work on the region's birds.
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Anton Robert Krueger
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Anton Robert Krueger is a South African playwright, poet and academic. His plays have been staged in South Africa, as well as in England, Wales, Australia, the USA, Monaco, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile. He has published under the pseudonyms of Martin de Porres, Robert Krueger, A.R. Krueger, Perd Booysen (in collaboration with Pravasan Pillay) and Sybrand Baard (in collaboration with Werner Pretorious).
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Christopher Pappas
- Biography
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Christopher "Chris" John Pappas is a South African politician who is the mayor of the uMngeni Local Municipality. A member of the Democratic Alliance, he served as party's deputy provincial leader from 2021 until 2023. Pappas served as a member of the eThekwini city council from 2016 until 2019 and as a DA Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2019 to 2021.
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Renée Hložek
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 41)
- Enrolled in the University of Pretoria
- 2003-2005 graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- cosmologistastronomerresearch fellow
- Biography
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Renée Hložek is a South African cosmologist, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and an Azrieli Global Scholar within the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. She studies the cosmic microwave background, Type Ia supernova and baryon acoustic oscillations. She is a Sloan Research Fellow in 2020. Hložek identifies as bisexual.
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Saurabh Sinha
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Saurabh Sinha is an influential South African engineer and a Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation at the University of Johannesburg. He was previously the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg. He formerly served as Director of the Carl and Emily Fuchs Institute for Microelectronics at the University of Pretoria, from which he graduated with a Ph.D. in electronic engineering.
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Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf is a Sudanese diplomat and is the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Sudan to the Russian Federation, presenting his credentials to President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on 16 January 2009.
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Attiya Waris
- Occupations
- professorwriter
- Biography
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Attiya Waris is a Kenyan professor at the University of Nairobi and a writer about financing development from diverse perspectives including illicit financial flows and corporate tax reform. She is the current UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights; the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Capabuild Foundation and a Commissioner on the Lancet-O’Neil Commission on Racism and Structural Discrimination in Health.
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Johannes P. Louw
- Occupations
- translator
- Biography
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Johannes Petrus Louw was the editor of the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains (UBS, 1988, with Eugene Nida); he also developed an approach to linguistics which became known as South African Discourse Analysis.
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Lydia Mugambe
- Born in
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Uganda - Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Lydia Mugambe, is a Ugandan lawyer who served as judge at the High Court of Uganda between May 2013 and September 2020. She was appointed to the High Court by President Yoweri Museveni, on 3 May 2013. Lady Justice Mugambe Ssali was subsequently appointed by President Museveni as Inspector General of Government on 18 September 2020
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Bettine van Vuuren
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- zoologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bettine van Vuuren is the Registrar and a Member of the Executive at the University of Johannesburg. She is also a Professor of Zoology and Director of the Centre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation at the University of Johannesburg.
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Xaba Sbusiso
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sbusiso Xaba is the national chairman of Pan Africanist Congress of Azania from 2019. He was elected in PAC Mangaung National Congress and re-elected in 2022 Polokwane Congress.
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Gerhardus Pienaar
- Occupations
- javelin thrower
- Biography
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Gerhardus "Hardus" Pienaar is a South African javelin thrower and former Junior World Champion from South Africa. His personal best throw is 84.50 metres, achieved in October 2003 in Hyderabad. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest javelin throwers in South African history.
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Peter Johan Lor
- Occupations
- librarianuniversity teacherlibrary scientist
- Biography
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Peter Johan Lor was Secretary General of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, first National Librarian and Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of South Africa, a scholar of international librarianship, and a professor of librarianship.
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Éliane Droubry
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Éliane Dohi Droubry is an Ivorian international competition swimmer.
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Dihan Slabbert
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- singercomposer
- Biography
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Dihan Slabbert, is a South African singer, performer, composer, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known as one of the lead vocalists in the South African pop group, Hi-5.
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Danie Faasen
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Daniel Cornelius Faasen is a South African rugby union player.
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Anja Marais
- Occupations
- sculptorartistphotographer
- Biography
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Anja Marais is a South African sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist. She has completed residencies in Japan, Korea, Russia and Florida and completed solo and group shows in Asia, Europe and the US.
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Jacques Coetzer
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Jacques Coetzer is an alt pop artist, based in South Africa. His conceptual approach fuses traditional and new media; social engagement is a key part of his practice and his projects often invite public participation. Over a span of two decades his art has evolved from sculptural object making to an action-based approach. Much of Jacques Coetzer's art employs artistic gesture, musical performance and public intervention, which he documents with photographs and video. Recent work has explored climate change philosophy and our shared relationship with nature and the environment. Coetzer works in East Africa and the United Kingdom, with Cape Town, South Africa being his primary base.
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Junita Kloppers-Lourens
- Born in
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South Africa - Occupations
- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Junita Carolina Kloppers-Lourens is a South African politician and former educationist, a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance (DA). She served as the Shadow Minister of Science & Technology from 2012 to 2014.
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Wim Richter
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Paul Wilhelm Richter was a South African chemist and principal researcher involved in bioceramic research activities. He is most widely known for his development of the bioceramic hydroxyapatite orbital implant.
