After matric Ruda Landman entered the Civil Defense College in George, where she undertook voluntary military service for a year in one of the first women’s army camps in South Africa.

Before joining Carte Blanche and becoming one of SA’s best known investigative reporters, she worked as an arts and entertainment journalist from 1977 to 1985 for Die Burger and Sarie.

Hugh Masekela was given his first trumpet in 1954 by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston and later played in the Huddleston Jazz Band, led by the famous anti-apartheid crusader.

In 1968 Masekela became one of the first African artists to find success in America’s pop music world when his song “Grazing in the Grass” topped Billboard’s single’s chart for two weeks.

His sister Barbara Masekela who was part of the ANC’s National Executive Committee in 1991; was later appointed official Ambassador to UNESCO in 1995 and Ambassador to France in 1995.

His full name is Hendrik Egnatius Botha.

Naas Botha is the only rugby player to have a rose named after him called the Rosa Naas Botha.

Nicknamed “Nasty Booter” by the British press, this South African rugby player was the highest points scorer in springbok rugby history, until July 2004

At the height of the band’s success in 1988, Michael Jackson had to cancel his show in Lyon, France, as he attracted a smaller audience than Johnny Clegg and Savuka. A newspaper headline in France read “white man singing black music out sells black man singing white music.”

Clegg was born in Lancashire an English father and Rhodesian mother. He had a secular Jewish upbringing living in the UK, Israel, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), Zambia, and then South Africa.

His love of Zulu street music led to his participation in traditional Zulu dance competitions and the study of anthropology, a subject which he also taught for a while at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg,

In 1991 Radebe was shot while walking down the street. The motive for the shooting never became clear, but Radebe himself believes that someone had been hired to shoot him in order to prevent him from moving to another club.

Radebe born in Diepkloof Soweto is one of eleven children.

He became a star player for Leeds United and was nicknamed “The Chief” by its fans.

He was also given the freedom of the city by Leeds.

According to a poll of 1000 Leeds United supporters – Radebe was ranked 3^rd as the greatest Leeds player ever after Eric Cantona 1^st and Billy Bremner 2^nd.

The rock band Kaiser Chiefs originally formed in 1997, under the name ‘Parva’ changed their name to The Kaiser Chiefs in 2003. Several members of the band are huge Leeds United football club fans, and renamed the band after Captain Lucas Radebe’s South African team.

Miriam Makeba ‘s mother, a domestic worker, was imprisoned for six months for illegally brewing beer to help make ends meet, and Miriam went to prison with her as she was just 18 days old.

She was the first black musician to leave South Africa on account of apartheid, and over the years many others would follow her.

In 1963, she testified about apartheid at the United Nations and her South African citizenship was taken away from her.

In 1966, she won a Grammy award for An Evening with Harry Belafonte in 1965. She was also the first black woman to have a Top-Ten worldwide hit with Pata Pata in 1967

Probably her most famous song, Qogothwane (The “Click” Song) was also recorded in the US.

The city of Berkeley proclaimed the 16 June to be Miriam Makeba Day and she received a number of honorary degrees and decorations including the Presidential Award bestowed on her by Nelson Mandela in 1991.