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Published 28 NOV 2010
in the Johannesburg Sunday
Times
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Retlabusa Mokonyane:
Retlabusa matriculated at Krugersdorp High School in 2005
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Published 28 NOV 2010
in the Johannesburg Sunday
Times
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Moses Qomoyi:
He will be buried on the weekend of December 4 at his farm in Stutterheim, Eastern
Cape (Border)
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Published 29 NOV 2010
in the (London) Telegraph
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John Bulloch, who died on November 18 aged 82, was a leading member of the
Fleet Street "camel corps"
On arriving in Rhodesia in November 1966 he found himself an object of suspicion
to some of the colony's intelligence officers, who noted that he had written books
about the security services and was called "Captain Bulloch" by Hoare.
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Published 27 NOV 2010
in the New York Times
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Robert B. Daugherty, a Nebraska businessman who helped transform the rural
landscape (including that of South Africa) into a patchwork of circular fields by
popularizing a means of irrigation that used a pipe on wheels pivoting around a
central point, died on Wednesday at his home in Omaha. He was 88.
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Published 25 NOV 2010
in the Benoni City Times
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Prominent Benoni resident Lomax Wrensch died last week at the age of 87.
Wrensch joined Rotary (The Rotary Club of Benoni) on May 16, 1972 and remained
an active member to his end.
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Published 26 NOV 2010
in the (London) Telegraph
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The Very Reverend Colin Slee, who died yesterday aged 65, became Dean of
Southwark Cathedral in 1994 and soon proved to be one of the most outspoken and
controversial Church leaders of recent times.
A close friend of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Slee was chairman of the Tutu
Foundation.
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Published 22 NOV 2010
in the (London) Telegraph
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Ron Moulton, who died on October 8 aged 86, was one of the best-known figures in
the world of model aircraft.
By 1943 Moulton was employed servicing aircraft, and was posted to Pietersberg in
South Africa, under the command of Col HJ Martin (later head of the SAAF),
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Published 21 NOV 2010
in the New York Times
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also published 23 NOV 2010
in the (London) Telegraph
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Norris Church Mailer, Artist and Ally, Dies at 61
Norris Church Mailer, a woman bred in the rural poverty of Arkansas who married
Norman Mailer and managed his career and family life over three decades.
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Published 10 NOV 2007
in the New York Times
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Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Dies at 84
His father, Isaac Barnett, known as Barney, was a South African émigré, a snappy
dresser — he sometimes wore spats and carried a walking stick — and a largely
ineffectual businessman.
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Published 02 NOV 2010
in the Telegraph (London)
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The 4th Lord Acton, who died on October 10 aged 69. For more than half a century
he fought for justice in Southern Rhodesia and then Zimbabwe. After his first wife
died in 1973, he married Judith Todd, a glamorously intrepid opponent of Smith and
a daughter of Garfield Todd, a former prime minister of Southern Rhodesia.
A memoir of his time in Iowa, A Brit among the Hawkeyes, was published in 1998.
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Princess Di: The full text of Earl Spencer's funeral address.
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Published 20 OCT 2010
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Bob Guccione, Penthouse Founder, Dies at 79. With Kathy Keeton, a dancer from
South Africa who was his girlfriend, his business partner and later his wife, Mr.
Guccione challenged Playboy
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Published 29 SEP 2007
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Derek Shackleton (cricketer). In the winter of 1966-67 he had enjoyed a winter
abroad in South Africa, playing for Germiston in the Transvaal League, and
coaching in schools there.
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Published 02 NOV 2006
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PW Botha, the former President of South Africa who died on Tuesday aged 90, won
widespread praise during the early 1980s as the architect of a reformed
constitution, framed ostensibly to ease the stranglehold of apartheid.
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Published: 01 Oct 2010
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Christopher Munnion, who suffered from emphysema, died in Johannesburg on
September 28.Chris Munnion, who has died aged 70, was Africa Correspondent of
The Daily Telegraph for 23 tumultuous years, covering innumerable wars and crises
across the continent.
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Published: 17 Sep 2010
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Donald W. Davis, who transformed Stanley Works from a tradition-bound New
England tool manufacturer into an international pioneer in the do-it-yourself
hardware business, died on Sept. 11. He was 89.
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Published: 17 Sep 2010
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Eileen Nearne, who has died aged 89, was a member of the First Aid Nursing
Yeomanry (FANY) and recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE);
parachuted into France, she was captured, then interrogated and tortured by the
Gestapo.
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Published; 28 Feb 2010
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Madeleine van Biljon, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 81, was a prolific
columnist with a razor-sharp tongue and sledgehammer personality.
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Published: 24 Jan 2010
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David Coetzee, who has died in the US at the age of 66, was for a number of years
the most significant source of independent, uncensored information about what was
going on in apartheid South Africa.
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Published: 24 Oct 2009
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Jan S Marais, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 90, was a flamboyant,
maverick businessman with an eye for the gap who changed the face of banking in
South Africa when he founded Trust Bank in 1954.
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Published: 30 May 2010
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Dennis Sehlabane, who has died in Sebokeng in Gauteng at the age of 51, was
known to everyone in South Africa with a TV set as "Makhathini from
Maritzborough", the puny-looking Zulu man in a kilt who beats a hefty Scotsman in
everything from tossing the caber to tug o' war after a bite of Lunch Bar, "the
much-more-munch bar".
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Published: 25 Apr 2010
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Gammy de Beer, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 89, was the chief fire
officer and head of emergency services for greater Johannesburg.
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Published: 04 Jul 2010
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Gordon Mulholland, who has died in East London at the age of 89, was one of
South Africa's most popular, best-loved, and most recognisable actors.
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Published: 12 Sep 2010
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If there was one man who can be said to have truly altered the face of South African
retailing, it was Christakis "Taki" Xenopolous, who died after a long illness a few
weeks ago at the age of 82.
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Published: 12 Sep 2010
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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.
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Published:09 Sep 2010
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Lis Utzon was the wife of Joern Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House.
Throughout their long marriage, she followed him around the world, supporting his
work and also acting as his business manager, keeping an eye on accounts and
trying to preserve his privacy, adept at appearing vague about his whereabouts
when she didn't want him bothered.
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Published: 06 Sep 2010
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Michael Burn, who died on September 3 aged 97, was one of the last survivors of
the naval commando raid on St Nazaire, after which he was captured and
imprisoned at Colditz. A Nazi admirer (who later became a communist), he had met
Adolf Hitler in pre-war Germany.
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Published: 05 Sep 2010
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Lieutenant-Commander Tony Bentley-Buckle: Later, while serving in the battleship
Revenge, he broke his arm and was landed in Durban to recover.
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