He and his brother led walks in the Kruger Park, produced explanatory material about the Vredefort Dome for visitors to Parys and published a guidebook to the Barberton region. Ivor Powell BA Hons was a Kimberley-born art history and philosophy graduate who defied the restrictions of a single profession.
In he completed his BA honours and while tutoring at the university, he met artist and former lecturer in the Wits fine art department Robert Hodgins, who had a great influence on him. Their output was experimental anti-theatre. In he won a prestigious national journalism award for a piece of criticism published in Art South Africa. Increasingly he became more interested in political stories and morphed into a general investigative journalist.
He helped the paper break important stories on the notorious Vlakplaas death squads. He moved to other publications such as The Star and the Vrye Weekblad. A version of this was leaked and it made him a target of various forces in intelligence circles. The experience changed him. In his remaining years he preferred the company of his family, cooking, and watching cricket and soccer. Some people see a contradiction in those three careers. I think on the contrary that they were deeply linked.
Throughout his life he remained intellectually curious and moved effortlessly across disciplines as linguist, educator, composer and humanist.
He was born on a farm owned by the Salvation Army to a deeply religious family in the Vryheid district of KwaZulu-Natal on 20 June His parents nurtured his spirituality and love for western vocal music as well as traditional African music.
He was the eldest in the family of seven children, surrounded by siblings who all learned to play musical instruments. He studied music through the Royal School graded lessons and examinations.
We watched our parents battle to make ends meet on a meagre church salary. However, in hindsight, those were the best times of our lives as a family. We enjoyed many evenings of song, laughter and breaking bread. Given the realities of apartheid South Africa, Khumalo directed his ambitions towards becoming a teacher. In he attained his PhD from Wits, with his postgraduate research and writing concerned with tonology, an aspect of linguistics that focuses on the interplay between intonation and meaning in spoken language.
He joined the Department of African Languages at Wits as a tutor in , serving a long stint as professor of African Languages and head of the department.
In these positions he made major contributions to the development and academic standing of the study of African languages. He retired from the University in but remained Emeritus Professor as an acknowledged authority in African Languages literature. Professor Khumalo was particularly revered for his achievements in South African music as an award- winning composer, conductor and the mentor of generations of singers and musicians in the field of choral music. Other works for voice and choir such as Five African Songs included a setting of the traditional melody, Bawo Thixo Somandla, further arranged for orchestra by Peter Louis van Dijk.
It was the first Zulu language opera. His wife of 63 years, Rose, died two days after him. They are survived by their four children and grandchildren. He matriculated at St Francis College mission school in Mariannhill, outside Durban, and taught Latin there for two years before graduating as a doctor at the University of Natal medical school in Durban in He was active in student politics and became vice-president of the National Union of South African Students Nusas , working with Steve Biko, who was active in Nusas at the time.
He obtained a medical degree from the University of Natal in He furthermore received a master's degree of Family Medicine M Prax Med from Natal Medical School in and received a postgraduate diploma in economics from the University of London in While practising as a doctor he joined the Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement and in became a member of its central committee.
In he was elected to represent the Enseleni district in the KwaZulu-Natal legislative assembly. He was active in the South African Red Cross from and represented it at international congresses in the s. He was praised for his role during the devastating KwaZulu-Natal floods and received a citation from the Red Cross.
In Ngubane was appointed Minister of Health in the KwaZulu government, a post he held until In he was appointed Ambassador to Japan until He was appointed SABC chair in and a parliamentary inquiry heard that he acted like an executive chair, taking decisions without board approval and bowed to ministerial dictates. In he was twice called to testify before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry in his capacities as, first, former SABC board chairperson, then, secondly, as the former chairman of Eskom.
He is survived by his wife Sheila and their children and grandchildren. Singh was born on 14 November in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal and started his career at South Deep Gold Mine in as strata control officer, progressing to the position of chief rock engineer.
He returned to South Africa in to take up the position of research manager for rock engineering at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR and subsequently that of programme manager for mining. He served as time as new technology manager at Gold Fields Ltd, then moved to the Mine Health and Safety Council as chief research and operations officer, remaining in that position for the next six years.
Singh returned to the CSIR in as manager for mining research and development. He was involved in establishing the Mandela Mining Precinct in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology and the-then Chamber of Mines and became the co-director of the precinct for the period to Singh served as a director on Coaltech Research Association between and also of the Mining Equipment Manufacturers of South Africa — He was diagnosed with cancer a year before.
His poems were prayerful and joyous. They reflected deeply about apartheid, nature, God and death. His poems appeared in a wide range of journals, textbooks and anthologies in South Africa and abroad.
After a few years as a teacher in Swaziland, he taught at Rhodes University in the late s. It was at this time that he married his wife Julia Skeen.
In , he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Durban-Westville in recognition of his literary accomplishments and many years of community-based work in the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Owing to his quiet personality, workers at The Valley Trust nicknamed him Zithulele, the quiet one. In , he was appointed Honorary Professor of Poetry at Rhodes University, primarily in recognition of his poetry but also for his founding, inspirational work in Wordfest, a national multilingual festival of South African languages and literatures.
Whoever loved until they'd trusted enough to bleed? And who understood until they'd shivered in terror at their ignorance? Makhubo was born in Soweto on February and become involved in politics as a teenager, joining the Congress of South African Students Cosas and served as the chairperson of the African National Congress Youth League.
He later completed a management advancement programme at Wits Business School in He also earned a certificate for leadership in local governance from the University of Cape Town. At the time of his election to mayor, he was studying for a master's degree at Wits. He was the regional treasurer before he became the regional leader in July Appointed as the caucus leader of the ANC in the city council after the resignation of Parks Tau in May , he was nominated mayor following Herman Mashaba's resignation.
In December he faced allegations that his company, Molelwane Consulting, may have earned as much as R30 million in fees from a controversial contract Gupta linked firm Regiments Capital won to look after the City of Johannesburg's "sinking fund", a fund of billions of rand set aside to meet the city's future debt payments. Makhubo leaves his wife Dikeledi and two daughters. Sources: Sunday Times and Wikipedia.
Legh was born in Johannesburg and matriculated from St Stithians College in He enrolled at Wits on a De Beers scholarship where he was the manager of a punk rock band called Snappy Canaries.
He joined Bowmans in and became a partner in He was a multi-faceted lawyer having initially practised in various fields: commercial property, labour, general litigation, and eventually competition and mining.
It is internationally recognised as one of the leading competition practices on the African continent. He worked on a number of high-profile cases over the years in relation to hostile mergers, abuse of dominance and cartel cases. He contributed to the first South African book on competition law.
Most recently he will be remembered as having worked during the pandemic to ensure workers without wages received help during the lockdown. For him the journey was always more important than the destination. From clinician to researcher, administrator to programme manager, he fulfilled many roles aimed at improving health services for the most disadvantaged people in South Africa. The work he did for former mineworkers is legend.
He kept the system of medical benefit examinations for former mineworkers going in the Lowveld for many, many years in the face of managerial indifference. Securing benefits for disabled mine workers and their widows that materially improved their and their families' lives. Beyond his professional life, he also served his community through Rotary International and by his involvement with various charities including Hospice and Books-in-Homes in White River. At Wits he met his wife and soulmate who matched and supported his ideals.
Mike was a dedicated father and family man, sharing his interest in the world and curiosity about nature, science and geography with his children. He used each family holiday as an excuse to explore all the corners of the country. These interests are also shared by his five grandchildren who are especially happy spending time in the Kruger National Park with their grandparents.
He loved intellectual debate, reading and challenging recreational pursuits like Bridge, Scrabble, and solving crosswords. Some of his closest friendships were forged around the Bridge table.
After returning to White River in - to settle ahead of retirement - he had a series of health set-backs. He faced each challenge bravely; and with the constant support of Marieta. He died peacefully at home with Marie by his side on 7 July He will be missed by a large circle of friends and relatives; and the memory of his warmth, wry sense of humour, curiosity and caring nature will endure. He was born and educated in Johannesburg and after graduating from Wits in , he had a stint in the Navy, but was transferred to Johannesburg as their legal advisor for Inland Revenue for four years.
Thereafter he joined Deloitte's where he practiced as a tax lawyer, and held the position of associate director. In , Collins changed careers and moved into the entertainment, leisure and lifestyle sector as the group tax and legal advisor for Interleisure Pty Ltd. Professor Msimanga first joined Wits as a lecturer in science education in , progressing to senior lecturer in the Wits School of Education. Her PhD in science education followed, as did a postgraduate certificate in education.
She also served as the academic head for Postgraduate Studies in the School from to while working as a senior lecturer. Respected by her postgraduate students, Professor Msimanga taught courses to Master of Science and Master of Education students and supervised postgraduate student research at all levels.
Her own research focused on the curriculum-pedagogy interface, with the goal of understanding how science can best be taught locally in contexts of teacher and learner diversity and multilingualism. She was widely published in local and international journals and well represented at local and international conferences.
She served as a curator of ornithology at the Natural History Museum in Zimbabwe for several years and taught for five and three years at the University of Botswana and Solusi University, respectively.
She also spent six years as an educator in two high schools. Professor Msimanga served on several research and academic bodies, including as the associate editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. She firmly believed that education is a great equaliser and that a good education can open doors and provide the skills and competencies for employment or entrepreneurship.
She encouraged her students to never stop learning. He went on to make impressive strides from a local teacher to an education professor. He was a very skillful and intelligent player before going into academia and retiring as a professor at the University of South Africa. He strongly believed that a coaching programme had to be devised, developed and implemented with the South African experience. He conceptualised and designed a prototype of coaching modern football," said Greg Mashilo, president of SA Football Coaches Association.
Brian Goodall BA , chair of the Lewis Foundation, and former leader of the opposition in the Gauteng legislature passed away at the age of 78 on 27 June Goodall was born on 27 March He matriculated from Jeppe High School for Boys with a first-class pass.
His leadership skills were already apparent as head prefect, captain of the rowing, house athletics and cricket teams and recipient of a basket of leadership and academic prizes. Goodall joined Standard Bank in , he moved from there to ESE Financial Services and in , he and two colleagues formed their own economics and financial consultancy company. Five years later they sold out to join Syfrets Trust.
His charm and people skills, combined with an intense aversion to the apartheid regime resulted in him winning the Edenvale Parliamentary seat for the Progressive Federal Party in He resigned from Syfrets to pursue a full-time political career and held the seat till He retook the seat in and held it until he was elected to the provincial parliament of Gauteng as Leader of the DA Caucus and spokesperson on economic affairs. He loved wildlife and in he joined the Lewis Foundation as a Trustee and took the helm as chair in He was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in and began his professional career as a technician at the Bilharzia and Malaria Research Laboratory, working on epidemiological field surveys of malaria and schistosomiasis.
He was deeply committed to his work as a disease vector biologist, geneticist and public health professional, and dedicated more than 60 years of his life to research and policy-making in this field. This extraordinary contribution includes his pioneering work in mosquito taxonomy using cytogenetic and enzyme electrophoresis methods, and he was a major contributor to the body of work that unraveled the taxonomic conundrum of the Anopheles gambiae species complex and the An.
This work provided the foundation for later PCR-based methods of species identification in these taxa, which now underpin malaria vector operational research and control interventions in Africa. During his career he visited most African countries at least once, and developed a particularly keen ability to find Anopheles mosquitoes using deep experience and insight.
This enabled the gathering of critical surveillance information for many malaria vector control programmes, both governmental and commercial. Professor Hunt was also a pioneer in the establishment of Anopheles mosquito laboratory colonies from wild-collected material. This is a particularly refined and laborious process that involves tireless field work followed by long hours in the insectary, and requires deep insight into mosquito ecology and behavior. Many of these studies have in turn provided critical information for malaria vector control, and have enabled the tabling of control policies based on sound evidence.
An important feature of these studies has and continues to be the characterization of insecticide resistance mechanisms in vector species, and he contributed to many of these. Professor Hunt will be fondly remembered for his deep insight, energy, enthusiasm, innovative ideas, attention to detail, dedication to his work and to his insistence on excellence.
Well-known and respected physics lecturer John Lawrence Crawford BSc died in his home on 17 June , just short of his 84th birthday. Many benefited from his guidance, delivered in a calm, patient and influential manner even after his official retirement. He succumbed to the cancer which manifested almost 10 years ago.
He was treated at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital Oncology Unit and was always full of praise for the care he received there. His teaching career followed in the footsteps of his grandfather Professor Lawrence Crawford, born in Glasgow and educated there and at Cambridge, who came to South Africa as professor of mathematics at the South African College from until when it became the University of Cape Town, where he continued until retiring in He joined the Wits staffing complement as a graduate assistant in March until and was offered a temporary lecturer position until According to the Physics Department, Crawford had compiled over 6 first year tutorial and laboratory-based questions and solutions on a main frame computer which have since been converted to an editable version for usage by academics in the School of Physics.
During the s there was a lack of suitable textbooks and Crawford was able to innovate by adapting physics materials for health and biological science courses.
His passion for teaching was evident as he was awarded a gold medal for his outstanding service to the Faculty of Health Sciences at their 75th Anniversary in He also acted as a moderator for the Matriculation Examination Board for physical sciences. Early in his career, he enjoyed sabbatical leave at prestigious universities including the University of Virginia, where he worked with NASA technical monitors, the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and at Cologne University in Germany.
During his time at Wits he served on undergraduate committees of the Faculty of Health Sciences and was a member of the Physics Faculty Board. Crawford lived in Parkwood and commuted to Wits by bus. He was a familiar sight on the route to Rosebank, where he walked to do his shopping.
He was a great book lover and a long-term member of the Friends of the Rosebank Library. He served on the committee from its formation until his death, regularly participating as volunteer, salesperson and customer. He was an avid birdwatcher and loved wildlife, spending many holidays camping in Mozambique, in the Kruger National Park, or walking in national parks around Cape Town.
He played a huge role as a beloved uncle to the children and grandchildren of his sister, Ann Myles of Cape Town. Please feel free to share your memories here. He started his career at Wits as a junior lecturer in , and progressed to full professor from to Professor Peterson was an award-winning film writer and producer; a leading practitioner of working-class theatre; a literary critic and a public intellectual. He was also known for being a generous mentor to numerous young people in various spheres of the arts and academia.
He easily crossed between academia and the creative arts producing high impact creative works such as feature films Fools and Zulu Love Letter and feature documentaries Born into Struggle , Zwelidumile , The Battle for Johannesburg and Miners Shot Down , many of which won local and international awards.
A National Research Foundation B-rated scholar, he was acknowledged for attaining considerable international recognition for the high quality and impact of his research output. He also participated in the Mellon Postgraduate Mentoring Scheme for several years. For similar reasons, he was repelled by social media with its speed and superficiality, its dialogue of the deaf. He, by contrast, was an exceptional listener.
For anyone who ever had a serious conversation with him, one will always remember the deep sense of being heard, seen and understood. Mabuza was born on 4 February in Waterval Boven, Mpumalanga. His family was later forcibly resettled in White River and he lived with an aunt in Daveyton on the East Rand of Johannesburg. While in secondary school he was expelled for participating in the student uprising. He matriculated from Ohlange missionary school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal and later worked as a court clerk.
In he began driving taxis to raise funds for a law degree at University of the North, which he did not complete. Over the years, as Mabuza navigated through the worlds of business, advocacy and leadership, he distinguished himself as a man of conviction with a deep sense of commitment to South Africa.
He started as a taxi driver and built a successful taxi business in Daveyton, championing recognition for township income generators and was a founding member of the Foundation for African Business and Consumer Services Fabcos in , becoming CEO in This culminated in the company backing black business leaders to obtain licences for casinos in South Africa. He was on the board of Sun International and chair when he died. He spent more than nine years on the board of South African Tourism, which he chaired for six years.
Mabuza's high-profile leadership roles for the country were at Telkom and Eskom. He played a key role in the restructuring and turnaround of Telkom as its chair from , serving two terms and creating a successful example of a public-private partnership, alongside CEO Sipho Maseko. President Cyril Ramaphosa turned to Mabuza in January , appealing to him to intervene in the long-simmering crisis at Eskom.
He resigned from the board in January , having served a year longer than he had committed to. At the height of the FeesMustFall crisis in , a group of business, academic and civil society leaders met for a weekend of talks on the higher education funding dilemma. The convener of the meeting, former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke asked Mabuza to provide the institutional and logistics support for the meeting.
His role across the business and social sectors was intersectional and multidimensional. He served as the president of Business Unity South Africa and chair of Business Leadership South Africa, and was an important ambassador for the country at global investment gatherings such as the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos. Mabuza received a number of accolades and awards during his lifetime.
He was the recipient of the Impumelelo, Top Empowerment Awards as the Top Black Business Personality of the Year, nominated by the Black Business Council for his contribution to transformation, job creation, and the economy and as a role model for Black Economic Empowerment. In , Mabuza was the recipient of the Onkgopotse Tiro Excellence Award in Business, in recognition of his leadership and excellence in business.
During his address to faculty of engineering graduates he said: I learnt way back that winners play the cards they are dealt. They do not waste time decrying the unfortunate deck they received. I also want you to always remember that every single citizen has a sphere of influence.
This is what active citizenry is made of. When we abandon our active citizenry, we get trampled. I honed my life skills, my business acumen, and my entrepreneurial edge on the job.
I learnt that in business, as is in life, it is all about people. People have aspirations, have fears, have desires but more importantly people have resources — talents.
Be authentic. Be genuine. Be yourself. But above all be engaged and be relevant. Care about people. And make your impact on our country and the world a positive one. After high school she specialised in sociolinguistics, semantics, modern and traditional languages. Manana married Bhekisizwe Daniel Manana in An avid Christian, she enjoyed travelling and public speaking. She will be remembered for her verve for life, saying "I don't need a billion rand to live my best life, I'm my own Oprah!
Previously attached to Wits as a lecturer at the Faculty of Education from till , he also served in several initiatives, such as the Governance Task Team of the National Commission on Higher Education, and the Technical Committee on Norms and Standards for Educators.
He assisted with the quality assurance of postgraduate programmes in Tanzania and Mozambique, and played an important role in programmes of the Association for African Universities, and in the development of the Rwanda Higher Education Sector Strategic Plan. He amassed an impressive publication record and he coordinated first-rate postgraduate programmes throughout his academic career. Professor Cross played a key role in post education policy development in South Africa, which he regarded as his civic duty.
Integrating his intellectual skills with programmatic interventions, he systematically worked towards the promotion of education. Watching him hurry down a corridor, all energy and youthful drive.
He belonged to a rare breed of physician-scientists who had a lasting impact on clinical practice, medical education, academic discourse, the lives of students and patients and medical leadership.
He died of a perforated ulcer during the last week of May At an early age, he was recognised as a brilliant student. He graduated with first class honours from Jeppe High School at the age of 15 in After, he enrolled at Wits in and began the more-thanyear career at the university.
Over time he obtained all the degrees available in his branch of the medical field. His studies at undergraduate level were distinguished by many awards, culminating in winning the Bronze Medal of the Southern Transvaal Branch of the Medical Association of South Africa for the most distinguished graduate in Medicine. He began work as a physician, later becoming a principal physician and senior lecturer , a consultant hepatologist , professor of medicine and senior physician and physician in charge of the Liver Unit , as well as a member of the SA Medical Research Council Professor Kew's initial academic and research studies were on a broad spectrum of liver diseases including viral hepatitis, drug-induced liver disease, portal hypertension, haemosiderosis, heatstroke and hepatocellular carcinoma HCC.
In a series of studies, Professor Kew mapped out the close association of HCC with chronic hepatitis B virus HBV infection, the integration of HBV DNA into the tumour cells, the contributing factors of age, sex, iron status and environmental factors in the progression of HCC, thereby establishing himself as the foremost authority on this significant tumour.
Colleagues attest that he was an epidemiologist, pathologist, cell biologist and clinician on HCC. He participated in the WHO expert committee, given the task of recommending the final steps needed for the total eradication of the smallpox virus. Among the group of physicians who took care of former president Nelson Mandela, he was the first clinical scientist in South Africa to achieve a National Research Foundation A1 rating.
He was an accomplished cyclist and played squash at provincial level. He was an avid reader with a special interest in grammar and also single-handedly constructed an extra bathroom in his home. Walker retired from Wits in April One of her lasting contributions to the University is the electronic classroom and the Library Education and Training Unit that currently plays a key role in the transition to digital teaching and learning.
In her retirement she took up a role as an Honorary Research Fellow, enabling her to write a history of the Wits libraries.
Clare was approachable and kind despite the exterior appearance of being somewhat formidable. She was a highly intelligent person who had a wonderful, broad grasp of what a University library should be. She aspired to make the Wits library system the best possible. Clare wanted to open up the books and find out what was inside.
Her knowledge of books was wide and she was always curious. She was often irreverent and had a great sense of fun. She had a quick brain and was dismissive of those above her in the hierarchy and those below her who she felt did not meet her own high standards, but she also grew younger staff into confident professionals. She was a good teacher of librarianship and wanted to pass on her knowledge and skills.
She was a leading player for many years in the professional librarianship body. Her steady judgement made her not too impressed by the self-important. She tended to laugh at the over-serious people. Other tributes and access to her memorial service, organised by the Library and Information Association of South Africa, can be found here. His father, Adriaan Uys, was a paediatrician who trained in Holland and his mother, Edna, was an educator. He matriculated with distinction in at Parktown Boys' High, earned his medical degree in and was awarded the Abelheim Prize for obstetrics, as well as the Horace Wells Medal in anaesthetics.
During the holidays, Dr Uys spent time learning nursing skills at Addington Hospital. This was an experience that shaped him to value nursing and nurses. In , Dr Uys left for England with his new bride Midge, a midwife.
He entered private practice in with Dela de la Hunt, and was joined later by Louis Coetzee. In , while working at Marymount Maternity Home, Dr Uys was approached to build a new maternity home. This subsequently gave birth to the construction of the Sandton Clinic in After 25 years of practising in Johannesburg, he semiretired to East London, heading up the maternity unit at Frere Hospital and was appointed honorary senior lecturer.
He is survived by his wife and four children, Amanda, Chris, Gus and Sue, and his five grandchildren. He specialised in botany, zoology and ecology at Wits and completed a diploma in datametrics at the University of South Africa.
After four years at Ntoma Wildlife as a research ecologist, Professor Scholes spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at North Carolina State University before taking up the post of research officer at Wits. He was a systems ecologist, adopting a holistic approach to the study of ecological systems, which he loved for their complexity.
This has been adopted as one of the metrics used globally. Professor Scholes was a lead author on numerous assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC , which provided a clear scientific view about climate change, as well as the likely environmental and socioeconomic impacts to policymakers.
His work on the IPCC assessment processes led to his appointment in as co-chair of a working group which produced the groundbreaking Millennium Ecosystem Assessment MA. He said natural capital showed that the economic benefits which people derived from ecosystems amounted to trillions of dollars worldwide, arguably equal to or greater than the financial capital usually considered as a metric of wellbeing.
His work in the field of ecology, particularly in the areas of climate change, global biodiversity loss and land degradation, garnered considerable international recognition including the NASA Group Achievement Award.
Over the course of his career, he authored and co-authored numerous books and book chapters and his articles appeared in various prestigious journals including Nature and Bioscience.
He was as interested in and very well-informed on a wide variety of topics. He was handy with tools and installed solar panels on his Johannesburg home and took it off the power grid. His studies were interrupted when he joined the South African Artillery in , serving in North Africa and in the Italian campaign. He returned to South Africa to work on a small diamond mine Star Diamonds.
He spent two years on the mine, eventually becoming manager, but a slump in the diamond market led him to return to gold mining, and at the beginning of he joined Free State Geduld Mine in Welkom.
Nisbet became a consulting engineer of the Anglo American Corporation in , and a deputy managing director of the Gold Division in He joined JCI in October , and was appointed an executive director in and chairman and managing director of its Gold and Uranium Division in January In he was appointed to the Council of the Chamber and the Executive Committee.
He was Chairman of the Gold Mine Museum's Operating Committee from its inception until February , and played a major part in the formation of the Museum. He had an extraordinary interest in the outdoors and nature, being a keen birdwatcher, a member of the Mountain Club of South Africa, and interested in photography and astronomy.
In his early professional years he laid the foundations and postulated the theory for the rational design of road pavements. His achievements in the field of transportation engineering include some world firsts, as a former colleague Dr Emil Horak recalls:.
I remember him as one of the friendly faces even during my undergraduate studies as a bursar student, making sure we were well mentored in the darker art of research. The Dehlen Curvature Meter was developed by him to measure the curvature or radius of a portion of a circle directly under a loaded wheel on a flexible pavement. Today, people will go to their voting booths and make their mark in the General Elections by voting for the party that they feel best represents their feelings and will work towards the same goals that they themselves desire.
The past year has been littered with insults and scandals and Twitter arguments and occasional acts of violence but this is still a democracy in its youth — the teething issues are still there. Yesterday, the battle lines were let down.
The opponents packed up their campaigns, they picked up their weapons and sat back to see what would happen. No matter how you may feel about the elections, at least one can admit that this is a far better situation to be in than what we had just over twenty years ago. You could find those things anywhere else on the internet if you wanted them.
Neo does pretty much all of the hardware reviews for the magazine and is a professional overclocker and editor of his own online publication, The Overclocker.
Their son will almost certainly be brought up on a diet of games and books and good music. Sanctions against South Africa meant that technological advancements pretty much slowed to a crawl and interaction with the outside world was even further choked. As reporter on the Samora Machel plane crash, she received several death threats and later had to provide testimony at the TRC hearings on the Helderberg plane crash.
She later joined the e. She is mostly known for producing and anchoring the investigative programme 3 rd Degree and later resigned to become a foreign correspondent for CBS News.
Thuli has become the true icon of South African democracy — as Public Protector and South African advocate who has proven her mirth. She served in both the ANC and UDF but believed that political office would not allow her to make the best contribution to society.
She subsequently declined the position of ANC MP in the first post-apartheid Parliament although she helped draft the final constitution of South Africa during this time. Today we see her name everywhere — Pam Golding is certainly one of the most famous South Africans and leading women in business in Africa. Jennifer Thomson is one of the greatest scientists in South Africa. Her research focusing on the development of maize which is resistant to drought and maize streak virus had seen her receive international accolades.
She subsequently became a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and a professor in genetics at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is an internationally acclaimed speaker and serves on several biotech and microbiology boards. Ingrid Jonker was a prominent South African poet who is known for her work which mirrors that of American poet Sylvia Plath.
Her first collection of poems Na die Somer were written before the age of 13 and at sixteen shed started correspondence with poet D. Labuschagne is also the only female member of the SA Air Forces elite 2 Squadron which pilots single and dual-seat Gripens. She is known in the industry for her work in photo-dynamic therapy for cancer treatment and one of the top three published scientists in South Africa.
She is also lauded for her research in nanotechnology. But Nyokong cites her interest in science as having started in the mountains of Lesotho here she had to take care of sheep — growing up as a barefoot child in impoverished conditions. Embeth Davidtz has followed Charlize as one of the most renowned South African female actresses. She made her acting debut as Juliet in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet and moved on to minor roles in South African Productions.
We look forward to seeing what Nikki does next in her career. The name Jenna Clifford is synonymous with bespoke jewellery, and rightfully so, but Clifford came from humble beginnings. Born to a teen mother and a father who had to quit his job as plasterer due to a skin condition, Clifford always knew that she would have to work hard if she was to make a success in life. She started working behind the scenes as a jeweller in Urdang Jewellers at an early age and after her divorce she opened her own small jewellery business — designing affordable, low-end jewellery.
During these startup years, Clifford worked 18 hours a day to establish the Jenna Clifford brand. Today her world-renowned jewellery is worn by A-list celebrities like Celine Dion and Serena Williams and one of the most prominent brands in South Africa. Believing that ethics is crucial to her business, Clifford uses only conflict-free diamonds, has dedicated an entire range to the Stop Rhino Poaching initiative and outsources much of her business to local workers and manufacturers. She started her cooking career as home economics teacher in Edenvale before continuing her career in Sea Point and Wynberg.
She then decided to start her own cooking school and wrote a book Cook with Ina Paarman for which she could not find a publisher. After funding her book publishing from a loan, her career took off and she eventually established Paarman Foods and today her recipes, spices and condiments can be found throughout South African and international kitchens, while her cooking school has gone from strength to strength.
She then changed direction, switching to financial services and eventually the business sector. Graduating Cum Laude from the University of Johannesburg in , Franks earned an impressive 21 distinctions during her studies. One of her projects during her studies included a Robotic Guide Dog Prototype which could assist blind users with navigating through their environment. The books are written and illustrated by designers, artists, developers and writers who volunteer their services to these projects.
Semenya is undoubtedly not your average South African woman. In addition to being our most famous female sprinter and world champion middle-distance runner, she has had to face a battering of questions, testing and worldwide criticism following gender testing by the IAAF. Though the results were never disclosed, the IAAF cleared her for participation in international competitions as a woman.
Although the world knows Glynis Johns as a Welsh actress, dancer, pianist and singer, she was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Spotted by a model scout in Durban flea market at the age of 15, she soon made it onto international catwalks and appeared in editorials in America, Italy, Britain, Spain, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Korea, China and Mexico. In December , Botha was abducted outside her house and taken to the outskirts of Port Elizabeth where they raped and assaulted her, disembowelled her with more than 30 stab wounds to her stomach and slashed her throat.
She was left for dead but crawled towards the nearest road where she was eventually found by a car. Her survival has been called a medical miracle, but her courage and attitude after her ordeal are the truly laudable parts of this story. Through sharing her story and helping others, she has found meaning in what had happened to her and can help others overcome obstacles in their lives.
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