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Contirbutions, "Donald Gordon"

Photograph of Donald Gordon. Sir Donald Gordon was a South African - British businessman and philanthropist. He founded Liberty Life Association of Africa in 1957 and Liberty International.

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Contributions, "Abner Cohen"

Abner Cohen was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He was one of the creative architects and a major representative of the Manchester School of social anthropology that came to prominence in the 1950s under Max Gluckmans's leadership.

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Contributions, "Albie Sachs"

Albert Louis Sachs is an activist, lawyer, writer and a former judge appointed by Nelson Mandela to serve on the first Constitutional Court of South Africa. After twice being detained in South Africa for his anti-apartheid activities in the movement led by the African National Congress (ANC), in 1966 he went into exile in England. Later he lived in Mozambique, where on April 7, 1988 he was blown up by a bomb planted in his car by South African security services. He lost his right arm and vision in one eye. In 1990 Sachs returned to South Africa to help write the Constitution of South Africa and later to serve for fifteen years on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

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Contributions, "Barney Barnato"

Photograph of Barney Barnato. Barney Barnato was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered as being a rival of Cecil John Rhodes.

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Contributions, "Basil Hersov"

Photograph of Basil Hersov. Basil Edward Hersov, South African mining executive. Recipient Decoration for Meritorious Service President South Africa, 1981; named honorary colonel South African Air Force, 1985.

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Contributions, "Bertie Lubner and Herbie Rosenberg with Nelson Mandela"

Photograph of Bertie Lubner and Herbie Rosenberg with Nelson Mandela. Bertie Lubner and his brother Ronnie built PG Group into one of South Africa’s most successful companies. However, he will perhaps be remembered most for the extraordinary scope and impact of his charitable work, aimed at improving the lives of under-privileged youngsters in some of the most deprived areas in the country. Herbie Rosenberg is the acting chairman at Afrika Tikkun.

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Contributions, "Chief Rabbi C. K. Harris"

Photograph of Chief Rabbi C. K. Harris. Cyril Kitchener Harris was Chief Rabbi of The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa from 1987 to 2004. Harris was born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his tenure as Chief Rabbi, he was noted for his support of full democracy during South Africa's apartheid years. He spoke at the induction ceremony of President Nelson Mandela in 1994, and also gave a blessing at Mandela's wedding to Graça Machel in 1998. Mandela frequently referred to Harris as "my rabbi."

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Contributions, "Chief Rabbi L. I. Rabinowitz"

Photograph of Chief Rabbi L. I. Rabinowitz. Chief Rabbi Louis Isaac Rabinowitz was an Orthodox rabbi, historian and philologist of the 20th century. In 1945 Rabinowitz accepted a position as chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg and the Federation of Synagogues of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in South Africa. He became a professor of Hebrew at the University of Witwatersrand and headed the Johannesburg beth din. He was a harsh critic of the South African National Party's apartheid policies following the South African general election of 1948.

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