We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

Albert John Luthuli, awarded a Nobel prize for his South African integration struggles, has to get permission to fly to collect his honor.

Gary Player, the small, trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.

* Austin Stevens ( born 1950 ), South African photographer

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau served as stop-over points for Cuban troops on their way to Angola to fight UNITA rebels and South African troops.

Angola-South Africa relations are quite strong as the ruling parties in both nations, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

* Atlas Aircraft Corporation, a South African military aircraft manufacturer, formerly known as Atlas Aviation

** Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force

** Atlas Carver, a South African military jet development project that was cancelled in the 1990s

* 1984 – Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1969 – Lucas Radebe, South African footballer

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer ( d. 1993 )

* 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

* Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Niger, Togo, Central African Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Angola, Comoros, Mauritius, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

South African poet Sinclair Beiles also used this technique and co-authored Minutes To Go.

* 1915 – Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet ( d. 2007 )

The poet Roy Campbell called him " the only literary genius that South Africa has produced ".

* 1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer, considered one of the musical trinity of Carnatic music ( d. 1835 )

* 1924 – Dennis Brutus, South African poet

* 1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter

Guests included author E. R. Eddison and South African poet Roy Campbell.

** Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet ( d. 2007 )

* March 10-Omer Tarin, Pakistani / South Asian poet, writer and scholar

* Louis Macneice, poet, lived at 52 Canonbury Park South from 1947 to 1952 and is commemorated with a blue plaque.

The church of St John the Divine, Kennington, which was to be described by the poet John Betjeman as " the most magnificent church in South London ", was designed by George Edmund Street ( architect of the Royal Courts of Justice on Strand, London ), and was built between 1871 and 1874.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

South African Roman Catholic poet Roy Campbell, who enthusiastically supported the Nationalists both during and after the Civil War, later produced acclaimed translations of Lorca's work.

* Dr. Ed Madden, activist, poet, and professor at the University of South Carolina

Dumfries got its nickname ' Queen of the South ' from David Dunbar, a local poet, who in 1857 stood in the general election.

* Archibald Rutledge ( 1883 – 1973 ), South Carolina poet laureate, resided in Spartanburg for about 20 years

Another Swansea poet Vernon Watkins ( 1906 – 67 ) likewise does not belong with the main group of writers of the so-called First Wave from the South Wales mining communities.

The Harz played a special role in the life of the famous regional poet, naturalist and local patriot, undoubtedly not least because his second wife, Lisa Hausmann, came from Barbis in the South Harz.

* Thomas Pringle ( 1789 – 1834 ), Scottish poet and author, and Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society :( re-interred 1970, Eildon Church, Baviaans valley, South Africa )

The poet Henry Vaughan called himself a " Silurist ", by virtue of his roots in South Wales.

The name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns would take over.

For six months during 1907, the South African writer, poet and medical doctor C. Louis Leipoldt was Pulitzer's personal physician aboard his yacht, the Liberty.

South of Vasiliki is Cape Lefkada, where the Greek female poet Sappho allegedly leapt to her death from the 30 m high cliffs.

The story lines drew heavily on, and were influenced by, the works of South Wales poet Dylan Thomas.