Good morning Boa, I confess to be having trouble with 8 & 9, though I feel I should know both. I thought 9 might be Frederick Russell Burnham, the American who was really the inspiration and source of skills that led to the Scout Movement,as well as being something of a hero in the Boer War. He certainly looks American with his cap and rifle.
I will tell you (and everyone else!) that 8 is quite a difficult one!
Number 2 is Haile Selassie I, Number 4 is Paul Kruger. I know more, but I will leave that for others to guess.
Christopher
I don’t think any of them are too difficult – except perhaps number 8 – so thanks for giving others a chance!
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2. Haile Selassie (1892-1975) (Power of Trinity) was the last Emperor (1930–1936; 1941–1974) of Ethiopia, and is a religious symbol in the Rastafarian movement. He was born in the town-village of Ejersa Goro, Ethiopia, as Tafari Makonnen His father was Ras Makonnen, the governor of Harar and his mother was Wezero (lady) Yeshimebet Ali. He didn’t remember his mother, who died in 1894. He inherited his Imperial blood through his paternal grandmother, Tenagnework Sahle Selassie, who was an aunt of Emperor Menelik II and a claimed direct descendant of Makeda, Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of ancient Israel. In 1916, an assembly of nobles with the agreement of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church deposed Emperor Lij Iyasu (Iyasu V), the grandson and heir of Emperor Menelik II, for suspected conversion to Islam. In his place they crowned Menelik’s daughter Zauditu as Empress of Ethiopia and her cousin Ras (Duke) Tafari Makonnen as Crown Prince and Regent. As Ras Tafari (Amharic Fearsome), he ruled Ethiopia as regent and crown prince (1916–1928) for his cousin the empress Zauditu, and as king (negus) (1928–1930), assuming the title of Emperor upon Zauditu’s death (April 2, 1930). He was crowned emperor on November 2, 1930, taking the full title His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God, King of Kings of Ethiopia.
4. Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was born in 1825 at Bulhoek, his grandfather’s farm in the Steynsburg district . He grew up on the farm Vaalbank. His school was the veld and he had only three months’ formal education. His father, Casper Kruger, joined the trek party of Hendrik Potgieter when the Great Trek started in 1836. The trekkers crossed the Vaal River in 1838 and at first stayed in the area that is known today as Potchefstroom. Kruger’s father later decided to settle in the district now known as Rustenburg. At the age of 16, Paul Kruger was entitled to choose a farm for himself at the foot of the Magaliesberg where he settled in 1841. Kruger started as a fieldcornet in the commandos and eventually became Commandant-General of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He was appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad (Republican Parliament) that was to draw up a constitution.
In 1874, he was elected to the Executive Council and shortly after that became Vice-President of the Transvaal. After the annexation of the Transvaal by Britain in 1877, Kruger became the leader of the resistance movement. The first War of Independence started in 1880 and the British forces were defeated in the decisive battle at Majuba in 1881. Paul Kruger played an important role in the negotiations with the British, which led to the restoration of the Transvaal’s independence under British sovereignty. At the age of 57, Kruger was elected President of the Transvaal. He left for England in 1883 to revise the Pretoria Convention of 1881, an agreement which was reached between the Boers and the British that ended the first Anglo Boer War. Paul Kruger acquired many allies in Europe during this time. In Germany, he attended an imperial banquet at which he was presented to the Emperor, Wilhelm I, and spoke at length with the renowned Bismarck. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal, changed the political climate of the Witwatersrand. Many goldseekers from around the globe flocked to Africa. The Transvaal Republic regarded gold seekers as ‘uitlanders’ (foreigners). On 11 October 1899, the Anglo-Boer War broke out. On 7 May 1900, Kruger attended the last session of the Volksraad and on 29 May, he left Pretoria as Lord Roberts advanced on the boer’s capital.
Eventually, Kruger moved to Clarens in Switzerland where he stayed for the last six months of his life. He died on 14 July 1904 and his remains were temporarily interred at the Hague and were brought to Cape Town from Rotterdam in the Dutch ship De Batavier VI. His body was then taken to Pretoria by train and he was buried on 16 December 1904 in the Church Street cemetery.
3. Nelson Mandella
OMG
3. Nelson Mandela (bn 1918) spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country’s first black president. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa’s white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. The government outlawed the ANC in 1960. Mandela was caught and jailed in 1962, and in 1964 he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. He began serving the sentence on Robben Island, near Cape Town, but instead of disappearing from view, Mandela became a prison-bound martyr and worldwide symbol of resistance to racism. South African President F.W. de Klerk finally lifted the ban on the ANC and released Mandela in 1990. Mandela used his stature to help dismantle apartheid and form a new multi-racial democracy, and he and de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela was elected the country’s president in 1994. He served until 1999, when he was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki. Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, was published in 1994.
10. Christian Barnaard.
Don’t worry Boa, I’m content with these two, I’ll leave the others I know to the rest of the gang. 🙂
Mornin’ Boadicea – is 7 Gadaffi, Libyan dictator? And I think 10 is Christiaan Barnard who did the world’s first heart transplant.
OZ
OMG
Thanks!
10. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922 –2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant. Barnard grew up in Beaufort West, Cape Province, Union of South Africa. His father, Adam Barnard, was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. One of his four brothers, Abraham, died of a heart problem at the age of five. Barnard matriculated from the Beaufort West High School in 1940, and went to study medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he obtained his MB ChB in 1945.
He worked first as a general practitioner and in 1951 he returned to Cape Town where he worked at the City Hospital as a Senior Resident Medical Officer, and in the Department of Medicine at the Groote Schuur Hospital as a registrar. He completed his Masters degree, receiving Master of Medicine in 1953 from the University of Cape Town. In the same year he obtained a doctorate in medicine (MD) from the same university for a dissertation entitled “The treatment of tuberculous meningitis”. In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States. It was during this time that Barnard first became acquainted with Norman Shumway, who did much of the pioneering research leading to the first human heart transplant.
Following the first successful kidney transplant in 1953, in the United States, Barnard performed the first kidney transplant in South Africa in October 1967. Barnard experimented for several years with animal heart transplants. He performed the world’s first human heart transplant operation on 3 December 1967, in an operation assisted by his brother, Marius Barnard; the operation lasted nine hours and used a team of thirty people.
OZ
It is – ‘fraid OMG pipped you with Barnard!
7. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (born 1942) was born in a Bedouin family near Sirt. As a teenager, Gaddafi was an admirer of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his Arab socialist and nationalist ideology. Gaddafi took a part in anti-Israel demonstrations during the 1956 Suez Crisis. An early conspirator, he began his first plan to overthrow the monarchy while in military college. He received further military training in the United Kingdom. On 1 September 1969, a small group of junior military officers led by Gaddafi staged a bloodless coup d’état against King Idris, while he was in Turkey for medical treatment. His nephew, the Crown Prince Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, had been formally deposed by the revolutionary army officers and put under house arrest; they abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the new Libyan Arab Republic. The slim 27-year-old Gaddafi, with a taste for safari suits and sunglasses, then sought to become the new “Che Guevara of the age”. To accomplish this Gaddafi turned Libya into a haven for anti-Western radicals, where any group, supposedly, could receive weapons and financial assistance, provided they claimed to be fighting imperialism.
A Revolutionary Command Council was formed to rule the country, with Gaddafi as chairman. He added the title of prime minister in 1970, but gave up this title in 1972. Unlike some other military revolutionaries, Gaddafi did not promote himself to the rank of general upon seizing power, but rather accepted a ceremonial promotion from captain to colonel and has remained at this rank since then. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders and he is one of the longest serving rulers in history. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Libya, then Tripoli, became an Ottoman province in 1551.
OMG – Smartass! 😀 Go back to bed!
OZ
Cecil Rhodes has to be in there somewhere. I’ll go for #9
OZ
OZ
Right!
9. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) was the son of a vicar. Due to his poor health he was sent to Natal to join with his brother. After failing to grow cotton there, together they attempted to make their fortune in the Diamond mines. Cecil saw alternative methods for making money by providing services to the other miners. He quickly realised the potential for riches by creating a monopoly. At first this was done with water, but he then applied this principal to acquiring diamond concessions. His efforts at amalgamating paid off with an enormous personal fortune and the creation of the De Beers consolidated Mines Company in 1888 and the creation of Consolidated Goldfields. Unfortunately for Rhodes he missed much of the opportunity to create a foothold in the newly discovered goldfields of the Transvaal. His ruthlessness for business was curtailed by the personal distress at losing one of his closest aides and confidants.
Rhodes used much of his personal fortune in the field of politics. Despite earlier support for Irish Home Rule, Rhodes quickly became a spokesman and activist for imperial expansion. His most famous ambition was to create a railway along a continuous pink strip of land from the Cape Colony to Cairo. He used his political skills and money to become the premier of the Cape Colony in 1890 and espouse his imperial ambitions on a much grander scale. He lobbied hard for the annexation of Bechuanaland and later, when he was becoming disappointed at the lack of political will at the Colonial Office, he even formed his own company to claim land in the interior of Africa. The British South Africa Company achieved a Royal Charter in 1889 and proceeded to negotiate and trick its way into the lands of the Mashona, Matabele and beyond, under the wily auspices of his right hand man Dr. Jameson. Later, their ambition would be their political and economic undoing when Dr. Jameson attempted to invade Transvaal in order to support an abortive coup. The political fall out from this adventure forced Cecil to resign his premiership of the Cape Colony.
Cecil Rhodes never lost his passion for his imperial dreams and spent much time planning and organising the colonies that were to bear his name; Rhodesia. When the Africans in these colonies rose up in rebellion to his company’s rule, he personally conducted negotiations with the leaders of the Matabele tribes. During the Boer war, he helped to organise and fund the defences of Kimberley in the siege.
Rhodes was a very complex and contradictory individual. His true feelings and ideology have never fully been understood by historians and biographers. What is clear is that Rhodes was a very personable leader who had the ability to inspire others and attract attention to his causes and ideas. On the flipside, he was a ruthless businessman who could often be accused of being little more than a bully. His treatment of Africans was equally contradictory, he often talked about them in a highly derogatory manner and virtually pioneered the ‘Apartheid’ system of separating the Africans working in his mines from the outside world. Yet, he also seems to have taken an uncommon interest in their cultures and language and had a respect and understanding for Africans that would have seemed remarkably liberal for his era.
Rhodes left a will that was to create one of the most successful educational endowments of all time; The Rhodes Scholarships. These were open to any of the Teutonic peoples; Britons, Germans and Americans. And had the express purpose of enabling the academic elites of these countries to mingle and understand one another better in an attempt to create an Anglo-Saxon empire across the world. Even in his death, Rhodes’ dreams were bigger and more comprehensive than most other peoples’.
Sorry Oz, only got up for a pee, back to kip also.
OMG – Me too. It’s a bugger getting old, innit?
OZ
1 King Shaka
No 1 Cetewayo?
Peter
This is the only known picture of Shaka
1. Shaka (1787-1828) (Tshaka, Tchaka or Chaka; sometimes referred to as Shaka Zulu; was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom. He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the large portion of southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu rivers, and his statesmanship and vigour marked him as one of the greatest Zulu chieftains. He has been called a military genius for his reforms and innovations, and condemned for the brutality of his reign. Other historians debate about Shaka’s role as a uniter versus a usurper of traditional Zulu ruling prerogatives, and the notion of the Zulu state as a unique construction, divorced from the localised culture and the previous systems built by his predecessor Dingiswayo. Research continues into the character, methods and influence of the Zulu king, who continues to cast a long shadow over the history of southern Africa.
Oz. It’s one of the most educational pees I’ve had for a long time.
Forgive me, I cannot resist the temptation. Or don’t forgive me, I’ve missed so many “Who Am I” competitions that naming three in one match won’t make me feel guilty! Number 5 is Jan van Riebeeck.
Christopher
For a variety of reasons – but mainly because I can put the quizzes up when I’m around, I’ll be putting the Who Am I? series up on a Saturday or Sunday UK morning. Hope that helps!
5. Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck (1619-1677) was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands. He became an administrator for the Dutch East India Company (DEIC) and spent some time in Malaysia as part of his profession. He also served as an assistant surgeon in the East Indies. In March 1647 the Nieuw-Haerlem, a ship of the Dutch East Company’s fleet, ran aground in Table Bay at the Cape. The stranded crew built a temporary fort, grew vegetables in the fertile soil, and made contact with the local Khoikhoi. After the survivors were picked up the following year, the Lords XVII of the DEIC asked two merchants, Leendert Jansz and Mathys Proot, to write a report on their experiences at the Cape. The Remonstrantie that they submitted in 1649 contained recommendations that impressed the Amsterdam Chamber of the DEIC. At the time there was increasing tension between the Netherlands and England, and they saw the far-flung Cape Peninsula on the sea route to the Indies as a practical, healthy and strategic area to take ownership of. The Lords XVII approved their proposal to establish a meeting place and fortress at the Cape. In June 1651, Jan van Riebeeck was appointed the first commander of the Cape. He was to establish a station at the southern end of Africa to provide passing ships with fresh food and water. A fleet of five ships set out and the flagship Drommedaris, the Reijger, and the Goede Hoope, reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. The Walvis and the Oliphant arrived late, having had 130 burials at sea.
Boadicea: yes, the new timing is a lot better. I have to be in classes most days of the week so by the time I get to my computer the quiz is either finishes or everyone I know of is already selected!
Good – it’s easier for me, too. A couple of honest posters e-mailed me to say that they had, inadvertently, found the pictures for the scheduled quizzes and didn’t think that it was right that they should enter. There was nothing I could do about that since the pictures have to go in the Library before the post goes up.
9 Cecil Rhodes. Blush. I have never seen that picture before.
Sipu
I do try to find ‘different’ pictures of very well-known people! 🙂
6) Kevin Pietersen?
FEEG
I’m amazed no one got him before!
6. Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE (born 1980) is a South African-born English cricketer. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 1997 before moving to England after voicing his displeasure at the racial quota system in place in South Africa. His English mother gave Pietersen eligibility to play for England, and after serving a qualifying period of four years playing at county level, he was called up almost immediately into the national side. He made his international debut in the One Day International match against Zimbabwe in 2004, and his Test match debut in the 2005 Ashes series against Australia the following year. The England team’s subsequent reliance on Pietersen since his debut has resulted in only one first-class appearance for Hampshire since 2005, which resulted in Pietersen looking to leave the club in 2010. He subsequently joined Surrey on loan for the remainder on the 2010 English county cricket season after being dropped by England due to a poor run of form, soon before joining the club permanently from the 2011 season onwards.
8 Koo Ras
No Pseu not Koo Ras – whoever s/he is!
Al Bowley
A singer songwriter…
No 8 – Roger Whittaker
Darn! Zen – I was sure you’d know.
No 8
Brilliant John – I was just beginning to wonder whether Bearsy and I were the only people to have heard of the man. 🙂
8. John Godfrey Owen Roberts (Paddy Roberts) (1910 – 1975) was born in Durban, South Africa. He was a popular songwriter and singer, having previously been a lawyer and a pilot (serving with the RAF in World War II). Roberts enjoyed success with a number of songs in the 1950s and 1960s and wrote songs for several films. He released several LPs and EPs of his own material, often featuring what were, for the time, slightly risqué lyrics. Roberts was twice the winner of an Ivor Novello Award, and he co-wrote the UK chart-topper, “Softly, Softly”, as sung by Ruby Murray.
I had no idea he was of SA extraction.
Interesting set of photographs, Boadicea.
Boadicea, please help me. I would like to join your group but can’t see how. I have managed to set up my own blog on WordPress but don’t see a way to blog here.
Hello JulieT, you’re in, well done and welcome 🙂
You can now comment as much as you like, Boa will no doubt arrange ‘Author status’ (the ability to write a post) for you shortly.
Howzit Boadicea, what a super post, I’ve been offline the last week or so so missed it, I got 8/10 🙂 that makes a change!
Would never have got Paddy Roberts or Rhodes.
Just phoned my dad, we’re both convinced that there was a Paddy Roberts at our M.O.T.H. club during the late 60’s, must do a bit of research, unfortunately most of the old timers from that era have passed on, nevertheless I’m going to give it a go!
Welcome Julie!
What a shame you missed this, Soutie! Good luck with your research – keep us informed.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Good morning Boa, I confess to be having trouble with 8 & 9, though I feel I should know both. I thought 9 might be Frederick Russell Burnham, the American who was really the inspiration and source of skills that led to the Scout Movement,as well as being something of a hero in the Boer War. He certainly looks American with his cap and rifle.
I will tell you (and everyone else!) that 8 is quite a difficult one!
Number 2 is Haile Selassie I, Number 4 is Paul Kruger. I know more, but I will leave that for others to guess.
Christopher
I don’t think any of them are too difficult – except perhaps number 8 – so thanks for giving others a chance!
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2. Haile Selassie (1892-1975) (Power of Trinity) was the last Emperor (1930–1936; 1941–1974) of Ethiopia, and is a religious symbol in the Rastafarian movement. He was born in the town-village of Ejersa Goro, Ethiopia, as Tafari Makonnen His father was Ras Makonnen, the governor of Harar and his mother was Wezero (lady) Yeshimebet Ali. He didn’t remember his mother, who died in 1894. He inherited his Imperial blood through his paternal grandmother, Tenagnework Sahle Selassie, who was an aunt of Emperor Menelik II and a claimed direct descendant of Makeda, Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of ancient Israel. In 1916, an assembly of nobles with the agreement of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church deposed Emperor Lij Iyasu (Iyasu V), the grandson and heir of Emperor Menelik II, for suspected conversion to Islam. In his place they crowned Menelik’s daughter Zauditu as Empress of Ethiopia and her cousin Ras (Duke) Tafari Makonnen as Crown Prince and Regent. As Ras Tafari (Amharic Fearsome), he ruled Ethiopia as regent and crown prince (1916–1928) for his cousin the empress Zauditu, and as king (negus) (1928–1930), assuming the title of Emperor upon Zauditu’s death (April 2, 1930). He was crowned emperor on November 2, 1930, taking the full title His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God, King of Kings of Ethiopia.
4. Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was born in 1825 at Bulhoek, his grandfather’s farm in the Steynsburg district . He grew up on the farm Vaalbank. His school was the veld and he had only three months’ formal education. His father, Casper Kruger, joined the trek party of Hendrik Potgieter when the Great Trek started in 1836. The trekkers crossed the Vaal River in 1838 and at first stayed in the area that is known today as Potchefstroom. Kruger’s father later decided to settle in the district now known as Rustenburg. At the age of 16, Paul Kruger was entitled to choose a farm for himself at the foot of the Magaliesberg where he settled in 1841. Kruger started as a fieldcornet in the commandos and eventually became Commandant-General of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He was appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad (Republican Parliament) that was to draw up a constitution.
In 1874, he was elected to the Executive Council and shortly after that became Vice-President of the Transvaal. After the annexation of the Transvaal by Britain in 1877, Kruger became the leader of the resistance movement. The first War of Independence started in 1880 and the British forces were defeated in the decisive battle at Majuba in 1881. Paul Kruger played an important role in the negotiations with the British, which led to the restoration of the Transvaal’s independence under British sovereignty. At the age of 57, Kruger was elected President of the Transvaal. He left for England in 1883 to revise the Pretoria Convention of 1881, an agreement which was reached between the Boers and the British that ended the first Anglo Boer War. Paul Kruger acquired many allies in Europe during this time. In Germany, he attended an imperial banquet at which he was presented to the Emperor, Wilhelm I, and spoke at length with the renowned Bismarck. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal, changed the political climate of the Witwatersrand. Many goldseekers from around the globe flocked to Africa. The Transvaal Republic regarded gold seekers as ‘uitlanders’ (foreigners). On 11 October 1899, the Anglo-Boer War broke out. On 7 May 1900, Kruger attended the last session of the Volksraad and on 29 May, he left Pretoria as Lord Roberts advanced on the boer’s capital.
Eventually, Kruger moved to Clarens in Switzerland where he stayed for the last six months of his life. He died on 14 July 1904 and his remains were temporarily interred at the Hague and were brought to Cape Town from Rotterdam in the Dutch ship De Batavier VI. His body was then taken to Pretoria by train and he was buried on 16 December 1904 in the Church Street cemetery.
3. Nelson Mandella
OMG
3. Nelson Mandela (bn 1918) spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country’s first black president. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa’s white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. The government outlawed the ANC in 1960. Mandela was caught and jailed in 1962, and in 1964 he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. He began serving the sentence on Robben Island, near Cape Town, but instead of disappearing from view, Mandela became a prison-bound martyr and worldwide symbol of resistance to racism. South African President F.W. de Klerk finally lifted the ban on the ANC and released Mandela in 1990. Mandela used his stature to help dismantle apartheid and form a new multi-racial democracy, and he and de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela was elected the country’s president in 1994. He served until 1999, when he was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki. Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, was published in 1994.
10. Christian Barnaard.
Don’t worry Boa, I’m content with these two, I’ll leave the others I know to the rest of the gang. 🙂
Mornin’ Boadicea – is 7 Gadaffi, Libyan dictator? And I think 10 is Christiaan Barnard who did the world’s first heart transplant.
OZ
OMG
Thanks!
10. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922 –2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant. Barnard grew up in Beaufort West, Cape Province, Union of South Africa. His father, Adam Barnard, was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. One of his four brothers, Abraham, died of a heart problem at the age of five. Barnard matriculated from the Beaufort West High School in 1940, and went to study medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he obtained his MB ChB in 1945.
He worked first as a general practitioner and in 1951 he returned to Cape Town where he worked at the City Hospital as a Senior Resident Medical Officer, and in the Department of Medicine at the Groote Schuur Hospital as a registrar. He completed his Masters degree, receiving Master of Medicine in 1953 from the University of Cape Town. In the same year he obtained a doctorate in medicine (MD) from the same university for a dissertation entitled “The treatment of tuberculous meningitis”. In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States. It was during this time that Barnard first became acquainted with Norman Shumway, who did much of the pioneering research leading to the first human heart transplant.
Following the first successful kidney transplant in 1953, in the United States, Barnard performed the first kidney transplant in South Africa in October 1967. Barnard experimented for several years with animal heart transplants. He performed the world’s first human heart transplant operation on 3 December 1967, in an operation assisted by his brother, Marius Barnard; the operation lasted nine hours and used a team of thirty people.
OZ
It is – ‘fraid OMG pipped you with Barnard!
7. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (born 1942) was born in a Bedouin family near Sirt. As a teenager, Gaddafi was an admirer of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his Arab socialist and nationalist ideology. Gaddafi took a part in anti-Israel demonstrations during the 1956 Suez Crisis. An early conspirator, he began his first plan to overthrow the monarchy while in military college. He received further military training in the United Kingdom. On 1 September 1969, a small group of junior military officers led by Gaddafi staged a bloodless coup d’état against King Idris, while he was in Turkey for medical treatment. His nephew, the Crown Prince Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, had been formally deposed by the revolutionary army officers and put under house arrest; they abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the new Libyan Arab Republic. The slim 27-year-old Gaddafi, with a taste for safari suits and sunglasses, then sought to become the new “Che Guevara of the age”. To accomplish this Gaddafi turned Libya into a haven for anti-Western radicals, where any group, supposedly, could receive weapons and financial assistance, provided they claimed to be fighting imperialism.
A Revolutionary Command Council was formed to rule the country, with Gaddafi as chairman. He added the title of prime minister in 1970, but gave up this title in 1972. Unlike some other military revolutionaries, Gaddafi did not promote himself to the rank of general upon seizing power, but rather accepted a ceremonial promotion from captain to colonel and has remained at this rank since then. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders and he is one of the longest serving rulers in history. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Libya, then Tripoli, became an Ottoman province in 1551.
OMG – Smartass! 😀 Go back to bed!
OZ
Cecil Rhodes has to be in there somewhere. I’ll go for #9
OZ
OZ
Right!
9. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) was the son of a vicar. Due to his poor health he was sent to Natal to join with his brother. After failing to grow cotton there, together they attempted to make their fortune in the Diamond mines. Cecil saw alternative methods for making money by providing services to the other miners. He quickly realised the potential for riches by creating a monopoly. At first this was done with water, but he then applied this principal to acquiring diamond concessions. His efforts at amalgamating paid off with an enormous personal fortune and the creation of the De Beers consolidated Mines Company in 1888 and the creation of Consolidated Goldfields. Unfortunately for Rhodes he missed much of the opportunity to create a foothold in the newly discovered goldfields of the Transvaal. His ruthlessness for business was curtailed by the personal distress at losing one of his closest aides and confidants.
Rhodes used much of his personal fortune in the field of politics. Despite earlier support for Irish Home Rule, Rhodes quickly became a spokesman and activist for imperial expansion. His most famous ambition was to create a railway along a continuous pink strip of land from the Cape Colony to Cairo. He used his political skills and money to become the premier of the Cape Colony in 1890 and espouse his imperial ambitions on a much grander scale. He lobbied hard for the annexation of Bechuanaland and later, when he was becoming disappointed at the lack of political will at the Colonial Office, he even formed his own company to claim land in the interior of Africa. The British South Africa Company achieved a Royal Charter in 1889 and proceeded to negotiate and trick its way into the lands of the Mashona, Matabele and beyond, under the wily auspices of his right hand man Dr. Jameson. Later, their ambition would be their political and economic undoing when Dr. Jameson attempted to invade Transvaal in order to support an abortive coup. The political fall out from this adventure forced Cecil to resign his premiership of the Cape Colony.
Cecil Rhodes never lost his passion for his imperial dreams and spent much time planning and organising the colonies that were to bear his name; Rhodesia. When the Africans in these colonies rose up in rebellion to his company’s rule, he personally conducted negotiations with the leaders of the Matabele tribes. During the Boer war, he helped to organise and fund the defences of Kimberley in the siege.
Rhodes was a very complex and contradictory individual. His true feelings and ideology have never fully been understood by historians and biographers. What is clear is that Rhodes was a very personable leader who had the ability to inspire others and attract attention to his causes and ideas. On the flipside, he was a ruthless businessman who could often be accused of being little more than a bully. His treatment of Africans was equally contradictory, he often talked about them in a highly derogatory manner and virtually pioneered the ‘Apartheid’ system of separating the Africans working in his mines from the outside world. Yet, he also seems to have taken an uncommon interest in their cultures and language and had a respect and understanding for Africans that would have seemed remarkably liberal for his era.
Rhodes left a will that was to create one of the most successful educational endowments of all time; The Rhodes Scholarships. These were open to any of the Teutonic peoples; Britons, Germans and Americans. And had the express purpose of enabling the academic elites of these countries to mingle and understand one another better in an attempt to create an Anglo-Saxon empire across the world. Even in his death, Rhodes’ dreams were bigger and more comprehensive than most other peoples’.
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/biography/rhodes.htm
Sorry Oz, only got up for a pee, back to kip also.
OMG – Me too. It’s a bugger getting old, innit?
OZ
1 King Shaka
No 1 Cetewayo?
Peter
This is the only known picture of Shaka
1. Shaka (1787-1828) (Tshaka, Tchaka or Chaka; sometimes referred to as Shaka Zulu; was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom. He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the large portion of southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu rivers, and his statesmanship and vigour marked him as one of the greatest Zulu chieftains. He has been called a military genius for his reforms and innovations, and condemned for the brutality of his reign. Other historians debate about Shaka’s role as a uniter versus a usurper of traditional Zulu ruling prerogatives, and the notion of the Zulu state as a unique construction, divorced from the localised culture and the previous systems built by his predecessor Dingiswayo. Research continues into the character, methods and influence of the Zulu king, who continues to cast a long shadow over the history of southern Africa.
Oz. It’s one of the most educational pees I’ve had for a long time.
Forgive me, I cannot resist the temptation. Or don’t forgive me, I’ve missed so many “Who Am I” competitions that naming three in one match won’t make me feel guilty! Number 5 is Jan van Riebeeck.
Christopher
For a variety of reasons – but mainly because I can put the quizzes up when I’m around, I’ll be putting the Who Am I? series up on a Saturday or Sunday UK morning. Hope that helps!
5. Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck (1619-1677) was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands. He became an administrator for the Dutch East India Company (DEIC) and spent some time in Malaysia as part of his profession. He also served as an assistant surgeon in the East Indies. In March 1647 the Nieuw-Haerlem, a ship of the Dutch East Company’s fleet, ran aground in Table Bay at the Cape. The stranded crew built a temporary fort, grew vegetables in the fertile soil, and made contact with the local Khoikhoi. After the survivors were picked up the following year, the Lords XVII of the DEIC asked two merchants, Leendert Jansz and Mathys Proot, to write a report on their experiences at the Cape. The Remonstrantie that they submitted in 1649 contained recommendations that impressed the Amsterdam Chamber of the DEIC. At the time there was increasing tension between the Netherlands and England, and they saw the far-flung Cape Peninsula on the sea route to the Indies as a practical, healthy and strategic area to take ownership of. The Lords XVII approved their proposal to establish a meeting place and fortress at the Cape. In June 1651, Jan van Riebeeck was appointed the first commander of the Cape. He was to establish a station at the southern end of Africa to provide passing ships with fresh food and water. A fleet of five ships set out and the flagship Drommedaris, the Reijger, and the Goede Hoope, reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. The Walvis and the Oliphant arrived late, having had 130 burials at sea.
Boadicea: yes, the new timing is a lot better. I have to be in classes most days of the week so by the time I get to my computer the quiz is either finishes or everyone I know of is already selected!
Good – it’s easier for me, too. A couple of honest posters e-mailed me to say that they had, inadvertently, found the pictures for the scheduled quizzes and didn’t think that it was right that they should enter. There was nothing I could do about that since the pictures have to go in the Library before the post goes up.
9 Cecil Rhodes. Blush. I have never seen that picture before.
Sipu
I do try to find ‘different’ pictures of very well-known people! 🙂
6) Kevin Pietersen?
FEEG
I’m amazed no one got him before!
6. Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE (born 1980) is a South African-born English cricketer. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 1997 before moving to England after voicing his displeasure at the racial quota system in place in South Africa. His English mother gave Pietersen eligibility to play for England, and after serving a qualifying period of four years playing at county level, he was called up almost immediately into the national side. He made his international debut in the One Day International match against Zimbabwe in 2004, and his Test match debut in the 2005 Ashes series against Australia the following year. The England team’s subsequent reliance on Pietersen since his debut has resulted in only one first-class appearance for Hampshire since 2005, which resulted in Pietersen looking to leave the club in 2010. He subsequently joined Surrey on loan for the remainder on the 2010 English county cricket season after being dropped by England due to a poor run of form, soon before joining the club permanently from the 2011 season onwards.
8 Koo Ras
No Pseu not Koo Ras – whoever s/he is!
Al Bowley
A singer songwriter…
No 8 – Roger Whittaker
Darn! Zen – I was sure you’d know.
No 8
Brilliant John – I was just beginning to wonder whether Bearsy and I were the only people to have heard of the man. 🙂
8. John Godfrey Owen Roberts (Paddy Roberts) (1910 – 1975) was born in Durban, South Africa. He was a popular songwriter and singer, having previously been a lawyer and a pilot (serving with the RAF in World War II). Roberts enjoyed success with a number of songs in the 1950s and 1960s and wrote songs for several films. He released several LPs and EPs of his own material, often featuring what were, for the time, slightly risqué lyrics. Roberts was twice the winner of an Ivor Novello Award, and he co-wrote the UK chart-topper, “Softly, Softly”, as sung by Ruby Murray.
I had no idea he was of SA extraction.
Interesting set of photographs, Boadicea.
Boadicea, please help me. I would like to join your group but can’t see how. I have managed to set up my own blog on WordPress but don’t see a way to blog here.
Hello JulieT, you’re in, well done and welcome 🙂
You can now comment as much as you like, Boa will no doubt arrange ‘Author status’ (the ability to write a post) for you shortly.
Howzit Boadicea, what a super post, I’ve been offline the last week or so so missed it, I got 8/10 🙂 that makes a change!
Would never have got Paddy Roberts or Rhodes.
Just phoned my dad, we’re both convinced that there was a Paddy Roberts at our M.O.T.H. club during the late 60’s, must do a bit of research, unfortunately most of the old timers from that era have passed on, nevertheless I’m going to give it a go!
Welcome Julie!
What a shame you missed this, Soutie! Good luck with your research – keep us informed.