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Flag of South Africa. This is a list of notable and famous South Africans ... survey by Media24 in 1999 about 100 most influential South Africans (and people ...
He moved to South Africa at the age of two and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town. Tshilidzi Marwala (born 1971), South African scientist and inventor. Thebe Medupe (born 1973), South African astrophysicist and founding director of Astronomy Africa. Azwinndini Muronga, professor of physics and dean of ...
This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets , novelists , children's writers , essayists , and scholars , listed by country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Yasuke, a 16th-century African man who traveled to Japan in the service of Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano. Given to Oda Nobunaga, Yasuke became a confident of the daimyō and given official status as a trusted retainer. York (1770–before 1832), an African-American man enslaved by William Clark, who was part of the Lewis and Clark ...
Two African laureates, Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1978 and F.W. de Klerk of South Africa in 1993, were presidents of their countries at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize. Sadat was honored along with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin for their efforts to reach a peace agreement between their two countries.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ m æ n ˈ d ɛ l ə / man-DEL-ə, [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
This is a list of novelists from Africa, ... Central African Republic; Balaraba Ramat Yakubu (born 1959), Nigeria; Z. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (born 1955), Malawi;
Pixley ka Isaka Seme, founder of the African National Congress and first black lawyer in South Africa; Sihle Zikalala, premier of KwaZulu-Natal; S'bu Zikode, co-founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo; Andrew Zondo, former Umkhonto we Sizwe activist; Lindiwe Zulu, South Africa's Minister of Small Business Development