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

* 1983 – Will South, British musician ( Thirteen Senses )

* 1982 – Dihan Slabbert, South African singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( Hi-5 )

* 1989 – Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean singer-songwriter, musician, and actor ( CN Blue )

* 1954 – Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( New South )

* 1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Housemartins and Beautiful South )

** Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician ( d. 2007 )

* April 4 – Hugh Masakela, South African musician

* August 28 – Joseph Shabalala, South African musician ( Ladysmith Black Mambazo )

* December 16 – Duncan Faure, South African musician

** Manfred Mann ( Manfred Lubowitz ), South African rock musician

** Dave Matthews, South African – born musician

** Johnny Clegg, South African zulu musician

* May 9 – Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya the mystic saint composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called " sankIrtanas " in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala.

* Seong-jun Gil ( 길성준, born 1977 ), South Korean musician

McQuarrie was born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South with director Bryan Singer, actor Ethan Hawke and musician James Murphy.

* Dolly Rathebe ( 1928 – 2004 ), South African musician and actress

Edwin McCain ( born January 20, 1970 in Greenville, South Carolina ) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

Tshidino is not just a musician but also a prominent film producer who is more popular in the Vendawood film industry in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.

* Zola Shuman, South African musician

South Carolina-born Piedmont blues musician Rev.

This was evident when he was later banned from Radio Ceylon after refusing to audition for Indian musician Ratanjankar, whom the corporation had brought from South India to oversee the direction of music on their stations.

Matthew Richard " Matt " Stone ( born May 26, 1971 ) is an American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, musician, best known for being the co-creator of South Park along with his creative partner and best friend, Trey Parker.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo released their first album the following year, Amabutho, which received gold status and was the first album by a black musician or group in South Africa to do so.

Bella Bellow is Togo's best-known musician, and is often compared with South Africa's Miriam Makeba.