Who were they?: April 2016

Sunday, April 24, 2016

People in Ancient History

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Here is a very good list of people in Ancient History.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/basics101/tp/061308famouspeople.htm

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Francois Pienaar

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The 1994 World Cup rugby victory helped unify the different people of South Africa at a critical Juncture

100 People (99)

Pixley Seme

Pixley Seme (1881 - 1951)

100 People (100)

The founder of the ANC.

100 on the STAR "people who made SA" list

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Robert NOZICK It’s Not Fair if the Rules Aren’t Fair This idea translates into “equality of opportunity.” Harvard philosopher, Robert Nozick, in Anarchy, State, and Utopia, (1974) argues that the rules must be fair and must respect two principles: • The state must enforce laws that establish and protect private property. • Private property may be transferred from one person to another only by voluntary exchange. -->

Robert Nozick November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher.^[2] He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice(1971). His other work involved decision theory and epistemology.

Friday, April 8, 2016

Harry Smith

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maria de la quellerie

Maria van Riebeeck (née de la Queillerie; 28 October 1629 – 2 November 1664) was the first wife of Jan van Riebeeck, the Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the settlement at the Cape.

She was the daughter of Abraham de la Queillerie (1589–1630) from Tournaiand Maria du Bois (born 1593) from France. She married Van Riebeeck on 28 March 1649 in Schiedam, Netherlands. The couple had eight children, of whom most died young. The couple arrived to the later Cape Town in South Africa in 1652.^{[citation needed]}

The first period, they lived in a tent. Maria acted as the hostess to guests, is said to have entertained with a clavicord, and was described as diplomatically gifted in the company of foreigners. She was from 1658 active as a money lender to the colonists, and used a slave girl as an interpreter to communicate with the native population.^{[citation needed]}-->

Margaret Thatcher

http://www.aei.org/publication/how-margaret-thatcher-turned-around-great-britain-in-one-chart/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pethokoukisthatcherchart -->

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Joshua Oupa Gqozo

? Joshua Oupa Gqozo (1952 - ) was the military ruler of the former homeland of Ciskei in South Africa. He was born in Kroonstad on March 10th 1952, and is the son of a Christian minister. Early in his life, Gqozo joined the South African Defence Force (SADF) and worked as a soldier. In 1972, Ciskei was declared self-governing under the rule of Lennox Sebe. But in 1990, Gqozo replaced Sebe and ruled as a dictator of Ciskei. On September 7th 1992, the Ciskei Defence Force demanded the removal of Gqozo. Twenty-eight people were killed and hundreds injured when they fired into a crowd of African National Congress members in what is known as the Bisho massacre. On March 22 1994, Gqozo resigned as leader of Ciskei