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Bieber, Owen Frederick
(Encyclopedia) Bieber, Owen Frederick, 1929–2020, American labor leader, b. North Dorr, Mich. Active in the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from 1949, when he became a shop steward, he rose to become…Ashe, Arthur Robert
(Encyclopedia) Ashe, Arthur Robert, 1943–93, American tennis player, b. Richmond, Va. Ashe rose from his hometown's public courts to become the first African-American male to reach prominence in…South Africa Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note South Africa Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-South African Relations PEOPLEUntil 1991, South…bantustan
(Encyclopedia) bantustan, in 20th-century South African history, territory that was set aside under apartheid for black South Africans and slated for eventual independence. Ten bantustans (later…Malan, Daniel François
(Encyclopedia) Malan, Daniel FrançoisMalan, Daniel Françoisdänyĕlˈ fräNswäˈ məlänˈ [key], 1874–1959, South African political leader. A minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, he left the pulpit after…Nujoma, Sam
(Encyclopedia) Nujoma, Sam (Samuel Daniel Shafiishuna Nujoma)Nujoma, Samn&oomacr;yōˈmä [key], 1929–, Namibian political leader. A railway worker in what was then the South African mandate of…Tobias, Philip Valentine
(Encyclopedia) Tobias, Philip Valentine, 1925–2012, South African paleoanthropologist, b. Durban. He graduated from the Univ. of Witwatersrand (Ph.D., 1953) and taught there for five decades. Tobias…Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu received the 1984 Nobel peace prize for his nonviolent work against apartheid, the South African government's policy of racial separateness. Raised in several communities in the…Thabo Mbeki
In honor of South Africa's Freedom Day, a profile of the President by Paul Evenson & Beth Rowen Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1999. Mbeki faces serious…Venda
(Encyclopedia) VendaVendavĕndˈə [key], former black “homeland” and nominal republic, NE South Africa. It comprised two connected areas near the Zimbabwe border in what is now Limpopo prov. Kruger…Trending
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