Leon Louw, the Glossary
Leon Louw is a South African intellectual, author, speaker and policy advisor.[1]
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72 relations: Activism, Affirmative action, Afrikaner nationalism, Alan Paton, Anton Rupert, Apartheid, Atlanta, Ayn Rand, Azanian People's Organisation, Chamber of commerce, Ciskei, Classical music, Communism, Coretta Scott King, Donald Symons, Economic freedom, Executive director, F. W. de Klerk, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, Free Market Foundation, Friedrich Hayek, Georgia (U.S. state), Govan Mbeki, Gqeberha, Harry Oppenheimer, Helen Suzman, Hoover Institution, Inkatha Freedom Party, Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa, Israel Kirzner, Jacob Zuma, James M. Buchanan, Johannesburg, King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Krugersdorp, Lawyer, London, Ludwig von Mises, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Luther King Jr., Marxism, Matt Ridley, Milton Friedman, Mont Pelerin Society, Montessori education, Murray Rothbard, National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa), Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa, Nelson Mandela, ... Expand index (22 more) »
- South African male non-fiction writers
Activism
Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.
Affirmative action
Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies) refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit marginalized groups.
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Afrikaner nationalism
Afrikaner nationalism (Afrikanernasionalisme) is a nationalistic political ideology created by Afrikaners residing in Southern Africa during the Victorian era.
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Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. Leon Louw and Alan Paton are south African male novelists.
Anton Rupert
Anthony Edward Rupert OMSG (4 October 1916 – 18 January 2006) was a South African businessman and conservationist.
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Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American author and philosopher.
Azanian People's Organisation
The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is a South African liberation movement and political party.
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Chamber of commerce
A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network.
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Ciskei
Ciskei (meaning on this side of the river Kei), officially the Republic of Ciskei (iRiphabliki yeCiskei), was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, located in the southeast of South Africa.
Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death.
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Donald Symons
Donald Symons (born 1942) was an American anthropologist best known as one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, and for pioneering the study of human sexuality from an evolutionary perspective.
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Economic freedom
Economic freedom, or economic liberty, refers to the agency of people to make economic decisions.
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Executive director
Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer (CEO) of a company, non-profit organization, government agency or international organization.
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F. W. de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.
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Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
Frederik van Zyl Slabbert GCOB (2 March 1940 – 14 May 2010) was a South African political analyst, businessman and politician.
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Free Market Foundation
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) refers to itself as a classical liberal think tank located in Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-British academic, who contributed to economics, political philosophy, psychology, and intellectual history.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Govan Mbeki
Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki (9 July 1910 – 30 August 2001) was a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, at its inception in 1961.
Gqeberha
Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Harry Oppenheimer
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer OMSG (28 October 1908 – 19 August 2000) was a prominent South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist.
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Helen Suzman
Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE (née Gavronsky; 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.
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Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government.
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Inkatha Freedom Party
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP; IQembu leNkatha yeNkululeko) is a conservative political party in South Africa, which is a part of the current South African government of national unity together with the African National Congress (ANC).
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Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa
The Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA) later known as the Institute for Democracy in South Africa was a South African-based think-tank organisation that was formed in 1986 by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine.
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Israel Kirzner
Israel Meir Kirzner (also Yisroel Mayer Kirzner; born February 13, 1930) is a British-born American economist, historian, rabbi, and Talmudist closely identified with the Austrian School.
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Jacob Zuma
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. Leon Louw and Jacob Zuma are south African activists.
James M. Buchanan
James McGill Buchanan Jr. (October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962.
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.
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The Martin Luther King Jr.
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Krugersdorp
Krugersdorp (Afrikaans for Kruger's Town) is a mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius and Abner Cohen.
Lawyer
A lawyer is a person who practices law.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian–American Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist.
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (27 August 1928 – 9 September 2023) was a South African politician and Zulu prince who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023. Leon Louw and Mangosuthu Buthelezi are south African non-fiction writers.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
Matt Ridley
Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, (born 7 February 1958), is a British science writer, journalist and businessman.
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.
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Mont Pelerin Society
The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), founded in 1947, is an international organization of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals and business leaders.
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Montessori education
The Montessori method of education is a type of educational method that involves children's natural interests and activities rather than formal teaching methods.
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Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School,Ronald Hamowy, ed., 2008,, Cato Institute, Sage,, p. 62: "a leading economist of the Austrian school"; pp.
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National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a mainly mining industry related trade union, an organisation of workers with common goals through organised labour, in South Africa.
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Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993.
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
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Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
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Nthato Motlana
Dr.
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Objectivism
Objectivism is a philosophical system named and developed by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand.
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, often shortened to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), is a South African pan-Africanist national liberation movement that is now a political party.
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Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom, colloquially known as Potch, is an academic city in the North West Province of South Africa.
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Pro bono
Pro bono publico ('for the public good'), usually shortened to pro bono, is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment.
Putting-out system
The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work, like a tailor.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Soweto
Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south.
Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served as the 2nd democratic president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC).
Think tank
A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social philosopher, and political commentator.
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Transvaal (province)
The Province of the Transvaal (Provinsie van Transvaal), commonly referred to as the Transvaal, was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994, when a new constitution subdivided it following the end of apartheid.
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Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Unie van Suid-Afrika) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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University of South Africa
The University of South Africa (UNISA) is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment.
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University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Walter E. Williams
Walter Edward Williams (March 31, 1936December 1, 2020) was an American economist, commentator, and academic.
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Walter Sisulu
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC).
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Zoleka Mandela
Zoleka Zobuhle Mandela (9 April 1980 – 25 September 2023) was Nelson Mandela's granddaughter and a writer and activist in South Africa. Leon Louw and Zoleka Mandela are south African activists.
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See also
South African male non-fiction writers
- Desmond Tutu
- Gideon Joubert
- Greg Hamerton
- Ivan Vladislavic
- Lawrence Anthony
- Leon Louw
- Letlhokwa George Mpedi
- Mbulelo Mzamane
- Michael Tellinger
- Molefe Pheto
- Ronald Suresh Roberts
- Sarat Maharaj
- Stephen Gray (writer)
- Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
- Willem Steenkamp
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Louw
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