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Flag of South Africa. This is a list of notable and famous South ... television program listing the 100 greatest South Africans as voted for by viewers; List of South ...
Great South Africans was a South African television series that aired on SABC3 and hosted by Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu and Denis Beckett. In September 2004, thousands of South Africans took part in an informal nationwide poll to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" of all time.
This is a list of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This is an alphabetical list of notable South African actors. Born in the 1900s. Siegfried Mynhardt (1906–1996) [1] Born in the 1910s. Donald Gray (1914 ...
The first South African nominee for the Nobel Prize was a certain P. B. de Ville who was unsuccessfully recommended twice (in 1930 and 1932) by South African Minister of Health and Social Welfare Karl Bremer (1885–1953). [18] Since then, other South African influential figures and organizations started receiving nominations as well.
There are eleven official names of South Africa, [1] one in each of its 12 official languages.The number is surpassed only by India. These languages include English, Afrikaans, the Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Swazi), the Sotho-Tswana languages (Tswana, Sotho, and Pedi), Venda, and Tsonga.
Duma Kumalo, South African human rights activist and one of the Sharpeville Six; Dumisani Kumalo, South African politician; Ellen Kuzwayo, political activist; Anton Lembede, political activist; Chief Albert Luthuli, President of the African National Congress and first South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Bessie Head (1937–1986), born in South Africa, mainly in Botswana; Cat Hellisen (born 1977) Manu Herbstein (born 1936) Christopher Hope (born 1944) Emma Huismans (born 1947) Robin Hyde (1906–1939), born in South Africa, living in New Zealand writer; Mhlobo Jadezweni (born 1954) Karen Jennings (author) (born 1982) Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965)