Obituaries with South African Links
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Cyril K. Harris, 68, Chief Rabbi in South Africa, Dies
The Union of Orthodox Synagogues said that he died in Hermanus
Published: September 15, 2005
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Dermot St John Gogarty was born in Cape Town on January 20 1958. He
was educated by the Marist Brothers at St Joseph's College and then
Cape Town University
Published: 02 Dec 2005
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Lillian Browse, who died on December 2 aged 99, was brought up in the
culturally unsophisticated milieu of South Africa but managed by sheer
charm, determination and good judgment to establish herself as a
doyenne of the London art world.
Published: 09 Dec 2005
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Eddie Barlow, who died yesterday aged 65, was a fine all-round
cricketer, and a key member of the great South Africa side of the later
1960s.
Published: 31 Dec 2005
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Denis Lindsay, the South African cricketer who died on Wednesday aged
66, was an excellent wicketkeeper and an upstanding hard-hitting
batsman of mercurial temperament, capable on his day of thrashing the
best bowling in all directions, but liable to disappoint when the mood
was not on him.
Published: 02 Dec 2005
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Roy McLean, who has died aged 77, was an aggressive middle-order
right-hand batsman for South Africa, representing his country in 40 Test
matches in the 1950s and 1960s.
Published: 28 Aug 2007
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Anton Rupert, a South African industrialist and philanthropist who
opposed apartheid's inhumanities and financed environmental and
educational projects, died in his sleep Wednesday night at his home at
Stellenbosch, near Cape Town. He was 89.
Published: January 20, 2006
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Anton Rupert is one of the most successful businessmen this country
has ever seen. But his real passion is nature
Published: 21 December 2004
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HUBERTE Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, died in Stellenbosch
on Friday, on the same day that her youngest son, Anthonij, was killed in
a car accident four years ago.
Published: 2005/10/30
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Norman E. Shumway, 83, Who Made the Heart Transplant a Standard
Operation, Dies
" Dr. Barnard had learned Dr. Shumway's technique when the two
trained together at the University of Minnesota".
Published: February 11, 2006
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Jockey Shabalala, a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, South Africa's
most famous a cappella ensemble, died on Saturday at his home in
Ladysmith. He was 62.
Published: February 15, 2006
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Ellen Kuzwayo, the lone woman and the least flashy of the founders of
the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and a quiet moral force
throughout the rise of the African National Congress from outlaw
movement to governing party, died Wednesday in Johannesburg. She
was 91.
Published: April 22, 2006
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Chris Heunis was a giant in the National Party for more than a decade
and played a critical role
in the early reform efforts of the PW Botha government. He was a
powerful cabinet minister, key
ideologue and a prominent figure in Afrikaner nationalism in the Cape.
Published: February 2, 2006.
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SCHOEMAN ELLA 31 December 1945 - 14 February 2006 Our good friend
and associate passed away suddenly at Primrose, Germiston. She gave
loyal service to Invincible Valves, Knights from 1984. She was respected
by all who knew her. Deepest sympathy to daughter, Penny, and her
family. From ALL at Invincible Valves.
The Venerable Richard Bird died on June 2 aged 77
He was Rector of Tzaneen, Duiwelksloof and Phalaborwa in the Transvaal
Published: 01 Aug 2010
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Reginald Levy - was the British captain of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707
that was hijacked by Palestinian Black September terrorists in 1972.
After the hijacking, Levy and his family received numerous threatening
phone calls and were thought to be at some risk; thus he was
transferred to fly the airline’s routes from Johannesburg.
Published: 06 Aug 2010
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Felix Kok was born in Brakpan, a mining town near Johannesburg in
South Africa on August 1 1924. His father, a farmer-turned-miner, had a
lovely baritone voice, while his mother was an accomplished violinist
and pianist.
Published: 15 Aug 2010
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Group Captain Dennis Lyster, who has died aged 99.
In February 1948, he took a Spitfire from Fayid in Egypt to the South
African Air Force base at Waterkloof near Johannesburg, a flight which
involved 10 refuelling stops. He then demonstrated the aircraft at
airfields in South Africa and in Northern and Southern Rhodesia.
Published:15 Aug 2010
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Norman Walsh was born in South Africa's Eastern Cape province to a
family with a long air force tradition. After leaving the Queen's College in
Queenstown, South Africa, he moved to the neighbouring British colony
of Southern Rhodesia to enrol in the air force officers' cadet force,
which had been established with the help of the Royal Air Force.
Published: 22 Aug 2010
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By September, a year into the war, some 3,500 children had been taken
by sea to safety in Canada, the United States, South Africa, Australia and
New Zealand under an overseas evacuation scheme run by the British
government
Ellerman line's swift and elegant City of Benares
when the crew learned that City of Benares had been carrying children,
many had broken down in tears
Published: 19 Aug 2010
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Expecting the arrival of some men to help him move house, he blithely
handed the 50 cardboard boxes containing his library of 2,500 books,
including many rare volumes, to the two burly types who knocked on his
door. The entire collection was duly lost to the compressor of the
municipal dustcart.
Published: 18 Aug 2010
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Christiaan Barnard, who has died aged 78, performed the world's
first successful heart transplant, an achievement that brought him fame
and fortune; he used his new-found celebrity to transform himself into
an international playboy.
Published: 03 Sep 2001
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Fanie Botha, who has died in Pretoria at the age of 88, was a senior
government minister who broke the power of the white labour unions
and played a key role in South Africa's nuclear weapons programme.
Published: Sep 12, 2010 12:00 AM - By Chris Barron
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