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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 97. Chapters: Ad Kaland, Alfred H. Noble, Angus Houston, Anne Vondeling, Arthur Deane Nesbitt, Arthur Young (police officer), Bas de Gaay Fortman, Bill Rowling, Charles Eaton (RAAF officer), Colin Maud, Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich, David de Wied, Desmond Tutu, Dick Berlijn, Donald Bailey (civil engineer), Ed van Thijn, Elco Brinkman, Enneus Heerma, Eric Miller (industrialist), Frederick Rosier, Frits Bolkestein, Gerald C. Thomas, Gerard Helders, Gerard Veringa, Gerrit Zalm, Granville Conway, Hannie van Leeuwen, Hans van Mierlo, Hans Wiegel, Henk Hofstra, Henk van den Breemen, Jan de Quay, Jan Terlouw, Jan van den Brink, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Jean Jacques Rambonnet, Johannes Brun (officer), Johan Witteveen, John Hammond (physiologist), Joop den Uyl, Joop Haex, Kenneth Cross, Marcel van Dam, Mart de Kruif, Merrill B. Twining, Michael E. Ryan, Niels Christian Ditleff, Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen, Oliver P. Smith, Patrick Jameson, Peter van Uhm, Petrus Josephus Johannus Sophia Marie van der Does de Willebois, Pieter Bogaers, Ralph Francis Stearley, Relus ter Beek, Roderic L. O'Connor, Roelof Nelissen, Rogelio Pfirter, Schelto Patijn, Sergej Ingr, Simon Wiesenthal, Stanis aw Maczek, Stephan Tschudi-Madsen, Thomas "Loel" Guinness, Willem Drees, Jr., Wim Duisenberg. Excerpt: Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu has been active in the defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings. Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal, the second of the three children of Zacheriah Zililo Tutu and his wife, Aletta, and the only son. Tutu's family moved to Johannesburg when he was twelve. His father was a teacher and his mother was a cleaner and cook at a school for the blind. Here he met Trevor Huddleston who was a parish priest in the black slum of Sophiatown. "One day," said Tutu, "I was standing in the street with my mother when a white man in a priest's clothing walked past. As he passed us he took off his hat to my mother. I couldn't believe my eyes a white man who greeted a black working class woman in school!" Although Tutu wanted to become a physician, his family could not afford the training, and he followed his father's footsteps into teaching. Tutu studied at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College from 1951 to 1953, and went on to teach at Johannesburg Bantu High School and at Munsienville High School in Mogale City. However, he resigned following the passage of the Bantu Education Act, in protest of the poor educational prospects for black South Africans. He continued his studies, t
