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BiographyDumile Feni
… from 1952 to 1967, and was the first African winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in waging a non-violent campaign …
BiographySydney Brenner
… H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work on 'genetic … Scientist and recipient of the…
The Final Prize - Chapter 19
… The Final Prize - Chapter 19 …
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
… has been criticised for saying she will not attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in December 2010. The award was given to … anti-apartheid activists…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… in 1966. After Chief Albert Luthuli was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (thus becoming Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) in 1960, Benson travelled to …
EventTwo South Africans are awarded the Unesco Peace Prize
… de Klerk were awarded the Unesco Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for 1991. They received the prize on 3 February in Paris, France. … Two South Africans are…
ArchiveState President FW de Klerk - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo, Norway – 10 December 1993
… Former President FW de Klerk Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech … State President FW de Klerk - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo, Norway – 10…
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… Luthuli , a close friend of Rubin’s, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and he invited Rubin to accompany him to Sweden to …
ArchiveLuthuli dressed as Zulu chief, gets his prize: South Africa as a threat to world peace....
… discusses the awarding of Albert Luthuli with the Nobel Prize for Peace. … Luthuli dressed as Zulu chief, gets his prize: South Africa as a threat to world…
Lenin prize awarded to Bram Fischer
… Lenin prize awarded to Bram Fischer …
Zulu of King’s race a prize orator
… Zulu of King’s race a prize orator …
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… 2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson …
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
… state of Katanga, Moïse-Kapenda Tshombe. End notes: [1]Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970, Editor Frederick W. … 1972 ↵ [2]style: Dag Hammarskjöld – Facts…
President Sam Nujoma and his governing party are declared winners of Namibia’s first post-independence election.
… President Sam Nujoma and his governing party are declared winners of Namibia’s first post-independence election. …
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African … upon his return to South Africa…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… lectures and interviews. He was proposed for the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine but did not win the award. He was …
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… Asmal met African National Congress (ANC) President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Chief Albert Luthuli while still at school. … in Ireland, and a laureate of…
Nobel-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer in 1987
… Nobel-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer in 1987 …
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate is born.
… Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate is born. …
President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are awarded the Unesco Peace Prize. They received the prize on 3 February.
… de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are awarded the Unesco Peace Prize. They received the prize on 3 February. …
BiographyMandla Langa
… introductions for many books, including South Africa’s Nobel Laureates: Peace, Literature and Science (2004), Moving … In 2009, he received the Commonwealth…
South African author J.M. Coetzee wins England’s prestige book prize, the Booker prize for fiction, for the second time, this t
… African author J.M. Coetzee wins England’s prestige book prize, the Booker prize for fiction, for the second time, this t …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… African poet, painter and activist, received the Hertzog Prize for his two Afrikaans poetry volumes, an elegy … was held at the University of Pretoria. The…
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
… the rest of his life to date. Tobias was nominated for a Nobel Prize three times. He was the recipient of many awards and …
ArchiveDunlop worker wins history workshop prize for his writing
… Dunlop worker wins history workshop prize for his writing …
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
… in 1991 and announced as the winner of the Booker Prize on 22 October 1991. The book addresses the co-existence … Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… make clear is the extent to which, in his view, the ‘final prize’ of the title (taken from a poem by Denis Brutus) was … The Final Prize by Norman Levy book…
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu to retire from public eye (video)
… Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu to retire from public eye …
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
… in 1994. In 2000 he was awarded the Charles Herman Bosman Prize for My voice is under control now. Professor Horn was … Control now) 2000 he was awarded the…
BiographyMarlene van Niekerk
… Book in 2004, and won the CNA Literary Award, the M-Net Prize in South Africa and the prestigious Noma Award. Triomf was the first Afrikaans novel to win…