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	List of South Africans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In September 2004, thousands of South Africans took part in an informal nationwide poll to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" of all time.
		Votes were cast by telephone, SMS, and the website of the state-run South African Broadcasting Corporation television channel, SABC 3, which aired a series of profiles and documentaries in the weeks leading up to the announcement of the top 100.
		In South Africa, the list was headed by Nelson Mandela, a predictable and highly-popular choice, given his global stature as a statesman and symbol of post-Apartheid liberation and reconciliation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_South_Africans (991 words)

	YFM - VOTE NOW FOR THE GREATEST SOUTH AFRICAN OF ALL TIME
		The hunt is now on for the greatest South African of all time and the public, the media and opinion makers are asked to nominate their Greatest South African, which will culminate in a 10-part TV series on SABC3 and the announcement of this country’s favourite son or daughter.
		The South African campaign kicks off during the month of June when the public, media and opinion makers are encouraged to debate the subject and nominate their greatest South Africans.
		I believe that by excluding the majority of South Africans from participating in their own (making or reflection of) history, the public broadcaster is not fulfilling its mandate and missing a great opportunity to do so.
	www.yfm.co.za /pebble.asp?relid=724 (1185 words)

	Tuis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Following a public outcry over its representivity, in which the 100 greatest South Africans ever - according to viewers - were named to great fanfare by the public broadcaster, SABC group chief executive Peter Matlare announced on Wednesday that the programme was to be reviewed.
		One of the common threads in the debate is concern that the initiative does not properly represent the views of the South African nation.
		Great South Africans co-presenter Denis Beckett said he was not aware that the programme was under review.
	www.hansieslim.co.uk /GreatSouthAfricans.htm (415 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Racists on list of 'Great South Africans'
		South Africa's official broadcaster was forced to scrap its Great South Africans series yesterday after viewers chose white supremacists, convicted fraudsters and cheating sportsmen for the top 100 places.
		Painful memories of South African history ensure that, 10 years after the end of apartheid, figures from the past remain as intensely controversial as ever.
		The choice of heroes among South Africans divides largely according to race, and one man's pantheon of glory is a rogues' gallery for another.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml;sessionid=TVWN24FSHYUOXQFIQMFSM5OAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2004/10/19/wsaf19.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=54744 (906 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life (2004)
		A legacy that South Africa now has to grapple with is an income distribution that is among the most unequal in the world and that more than half of the South African people, mostly fl, live in conditions of poverty, with 11.5 percent in conditions of extreme poverty (United Nations Development Programme, 2002).
		Careful analysis of the available cause of death information suggests that the South African population is undergoing a health transition with the coexistence of both poverty-related diseases, such as tuberculosis (TB) and diarrhea, with the emerging chronic diseases associated with a Western lifestyle.
		Studying the African diaspora is invaluable for evaluating changing environmental and social effects on the expression of the disease in the African population.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309092116/html/703.html (6015 words)

	Videovision Entertainment produces ''great South Africans''
		The show, which has South Africans looking for their greatest achievers, is modeled on the much acclaimed BBC television series 'Great Britons'.
		In the interim, the public, media and opinion makers are encouraged to debate the issue and nominate their Greatest South African until 30 June when nominations close.
		South Africans are urged to make their nominations by 30 June when the voting lines close.
	www.biz-community.com /Article/196/17/3903.html (451 words)

	THE PARTICIPATION OF NON-SOUTH AFRICANS IN STREET TRADING
		In 1996, the SAIRR estimated that 16% of South Africa's economically active population is employed in the informal sector (de Vletter, 1996).
		The CASE (1995) study in Johannesburg found that non-South African respondents were more highly educated than South African respondents, 16% of their sample had matric (compared to 9% of South Africans), and only 4% had no education compared to 16% of the South Africans interviewed.
		South Africans interviewed for this study displayed largely positive attitudes to both immigration and immigrant street traders.
	www.queensu.ca /samp/transform/Peberdy1.htm (6667 words)

	100 Greatest Britons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time.
		Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and South Africa all produced similar shows locally.
		Due to the nature of the poll used to select and rank the Britons, the results are of dubious statistical quality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/100_Greatest_Britons (406 words)

	Gary Player - Read News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The Top 100 list was formulated after collating votes from members of the South African public who voted by phone, text message and the web – and was announced on September 27 in a 90-minute program broadcast on SABC3.
		The South African public has been given the chance to vote one more time for the person they believe should take the number two spot and sit atop the list with Mandela.
		Fellow South African golfers Ernie Els and Papwa Sewgolum were also recognized, being ranked 37th and 85th in the top 100 respectively.
	www.garyplayer.com /newsloader.asp?NewsId=170&cid=3 (248 words)

	SKILLED SOUTH AFRICANS LEAVE TO FIND FORTUNE
		Young South Africans in this overseas branch of their home country’s fast food franchise debate whether making a return to the poolside lifestyle they have left behind is better than slogging it out under the low skies of London.
		A University of South Africa (Unisa) study estimates that 39,000 South Africans left the country in 1999 to join the 1.6m already living abroad.
		Rand salaries make South Africans cheap to hire, while sharp falls in the value of the currency have increased white middle class anxiety about their future spending power relative to their European and US cousins.
	www.queensu.ca /samp/sampresources/samppublications/pressarticles/2002/fortune.htm (789 words)

	Biographies of Special South Africans - Emily Hobhouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		South Africa was a country totally unknown to her; she could not speak a word of Afrikaans.
		She retired to the mountains of Savoy in the south of France to recuperate and and it was there that she heard news that the Peace of Vereeniging had been signed and that the Boers had lost their independence.
		The love and esteem bestowed on her by the South African nation remained a sweet drop in her cup of bitterness up to the end of her life.
	www.zar.co.za /emily.htm (2822 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		South Africa received votes from the Caribbean soccer confederation Concacaf (three), the South American soccer body Comdebol (three) and Europe (four) as well as single votes from Japan's Junji Ogura, Russia's Dr Viacheslav Koloskov, Tonga's Ahongalu Fusimalohi and Thailand's Worawi Makudi.
		Ian Riley, a member of the South African bid committee, said it was the release last week of Fifa's technical report which had put this country at the head of the race.
		Manuel added that every effort should be made to ensure that all South Africans had the chance to watch matches, and that tickets were not beyond the reach of ordinary people.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /2004/05/16/news/news01.asp (1582 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The South African version of the BBC television format ‘The Greats’ has resulted in Mahatma Gandhi being listed as one of the ten greatest South Africans of all time.
		In Great South Africans, based on the BBC’s Great Britons, public service broadcaster SABC 3 asked the South African public to vote for the country’s greatest men and women.
		In a surprise departure from the original BBC format, Nelson Mandela was declared the Greatest South African of all and the public is now being asked to vote for a winner from the other 9 Great South Africans.
	www.indiainfoline.com /bize/gavo.html (297 words)

	Greatest South Africans profiled
		The South African project is modeled on the acclaimed and successful BBC production Great Britons when the British public voted Sir Winston Churchill the Greatest Briton of all time.
		Great South Africans will be produced for SABC3 by film and television production company, Videovision Entertainment, headed by well-known film producer, Anant Singh, who says: "This project has certainly caught the imagination of the public.
		We were overwhelmed with the reaction from South Africans from around the country and from all walks of life.
	www.bizcommunity.com /Article/196/66/4534.html (635 words)

	List of South Africans -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		In September 2004, thousands of (A native or inhabitant of South Africa) South Africans took part in an informal nationwide poll to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" of all time.
		In South Africa, the list was headed by (South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)) Nelson Mandela, a predictable and highly-popular choice, given his global stature as a statesman and symbol of post-Apartheid liberation and reconciliation.
		(South African novelist and short-story writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923)) Nadine Gordimer, 1991 (An annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace) Nobel Prize -winning author (1923 -)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/List_of_South_Africans.htm (3117 words)

	entertainment.iafrica.com \| news '100 Greatest' exposes divisions
		It was intended as a rousing offering of patriotic entertainment in celebration of a decade of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa, but the SABC's 'Great South Africans' has instead exposed the volatile racial divisions that still exist here 10 years after the end of apartheid.
		The broadcaster had to ensure that the voting process was as inclusive of all South Africans, said Tleane.
		The '100 Greatest' TV concept, a brainchild of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which has sold it to several countries, is not new to controversy.
	entertainment.iafrica.com /news/370128.htm (735 words)

	The Great South Africans Fiasco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Upon hearing the list of the “100 Greatest South Africans&rdquo;, many South Africans were both perplexed and shocked.
		A large number of the nominees were controversial to say the least – entertainment icons recording more votes than national heroes, disgraced sports stars outscoring nation-builders and apartheid architects ranking higher than struggle stalwarts - surely not a true representation of our unique and varied nation.
		It is not the process that is at fault, but rather the platform that provided the opportunity for public opinion.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/great-safricans/sabc-fiasco.htm (173 words)

	John 6 v 1
		Practically speaking, tens of millions of the people living in the new South Africa today owe so much to this man. To most South Africans, Tutu is not only a big icon of the anti-apartheid struggle but he remains a big source of inspiration in the building of the new South Africa.
		He was then elected the first fl Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches in the height of apartheid days, in 1978.
		As I write today, I have no doubt that not only is Tutu regarded as one of the greatest South Africans ever, but also as one of the greatest sons of Africa.
	www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/fortune11.11861.html (1431 words)

	SA's greatest: Surprises await
		Shocking answers are expected this evening when SABC 3 reveals the greatest 100 South Africans as nominated and voted for by the public.
		South Africans'; true feelings about Terre'Blanche will be revealed, with his name said to be close on the list to that of anti-apartheid Afrikaner activist Beyers Naude, who died recently.
		The voting for the greatest South African of all closes at the end of the show on December 9.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-1225-1242_1595151,00.html (505 words)

	On Lesotho: 100 Greatest South Africans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		A poll that was recently organised and conducted in South Africa, he says, proves nothing beyond the fact that white South Africans have phones.
		If all South Africans were asked today whether most white farmers' land should be taken away and given to landless fls, my guess is two thirds would say yes.
		It was Moshoeshoe who stabilised South Africa after the tremendous upheavals of the early 1800s, sometimes referred to as the Lifaqane or Mfecane.
	lesotho.blogspot.com /2004/10/100-greatest-south-africans.html (1272 words)

	South Africa Languages and Culture
		South Africans have been referred to as the 'Rainbow Nation' a title which illuminates the..
		South Africans have been referred to as the 'rainbow nation', a title which illuminates the country's cultural diversity.
		The population of South Africa is one of the most complex and diverse in the world.
	www.sa-venues.com /sa_languages_and_culture.htm (406 words)

	Indiantelevision.com > Breaking News > Gandhi voted into top 10 greatest S. Africans of all time
		MUMBAI: The South African version of the BBC television format The Greats has resulted in Mahatma Gandhi being listed as one of the ten greatest South Africans of all time.
		In a surprise departure from the original BBC format, Nelson Mandela was declared the Greatest South African of all and the public is now being asked to vote for a winner from the other nine Great South Africans.
		The top ten Great South Africans as voted for by the South African public includes: Dr Christiaan Barnard, F W De Klerk, Mahatma Gandhi, Nkosi Johnson; Winnie Madikizela Mandela; Nelson Mandela; Thabo Mbeki; Gary Player; Jan Smuts and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
	indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/sep/sep336.htm (317 words)

	SA's greatest inventions on show - SouthAfrica.info
		An exhibition of more than 200 of South Africa's greatest inventions has opened at the MTN ScienCentre in Cape Town in a show designed to highlight innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit.
		Other South African inventions on show are the tellurometer, the first commercial microwave distance-measuring device, used mainly for land surveying, the Scheffel Bogie, an undercarriage for trains, and the Freeplay wind-up radio.
		They'll also be able to blow a vuvuzela horn, the musical trademark of South African soccer that - since the country won the bid to host the 2010 Football World Cup - has become a symbol of South African exuberance.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/conf_expo/inventionsexpo.htm (382 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| South Africans mourn top pop diva
		South Africans are grieving after the death of one of the country's most popular singers, Brenda Fassie, 39.
		When she sang at a concert marking the handover of power from former president Mandela to Thabo Mbeki, the cheers for Fassie were reported to be the loudest.
		Brenda was one of the greatest musicians ever to emerge from the mother continent.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3699055.stm (1553 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| 'Great South Africans' show axed
		Public pressure has forced a South African television show off the air in which viewers were asked to vote for the 100 greatest South Africans.
		The high rating of apartheid leaders alongside former President Nelson Mandela, already voted the greatest South African, caused an outcry.
		Great South Africans is broadcast on SABC3, a channel aimed at affluent English speakers, Reuters news agency reports.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3746400.stm (272 words)

	Mahatma in South Africa top 10 list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		In rankings released by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) after an national campaign, Gandhi figured in the list of 100 for his campaign against apartheid.
		During his stay in South Africa, Gandhi had organised protest marches against racial discrimination; established the Phoenix Settlement in Durban to promote his philosophy of satyagraha and formed the Natal Indian Congress.
		The rankings were arrived at after an intensive nation-wide campaign by SABC in which South Africans were asked to nominate their greatest South Africans of all time by phone, sms or through the SABC 3 website.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/sep/28gandhi.htm (257 words)

	Tonight - Best of the best (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The battle of the South Africans starts on September 26 when SABC3's ambitious Great South Africans project unveils this country's greatest men and women of all time, as voted by the public.
		The results were then collated and audited, and from this came the top 100 that will be counted down in order from 100 to 11 in the Great South Africans launch programme on September 26 at 6.30pm, followed by the announcement of the top 10 in alphabetical order.
		The South African project is modelled on the acclaimed BBC production Great Britons, in which the British public voted Sir Winston Churchill the Greatest Briton of all time.
	www.tonight.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=360&fArticleId=2223260 (518 words)

	A View from the Other Side - Youâda thunk theyâda figgered it outâ¦ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		It isnât that I donât actually care about the greatest 100 South Africans, itâs that I donât think anyone is qualified to create such a list, and popular vote doesnât ensure that those nominated are truly great.
		This whole 100 great south africans thing was a cool idea till someone tried to develop it.
		Well I thought the whole idea of what a great South African is was totally lost on a lot of people.
	www.blog.mweb.co.za /users/sweetviolet/24891.html (722 words)

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