Cape Town in the Cold War

The atlas holds 7 people and 28 moments here, from 1947 to 1990. The most recorded lives are Nelson Mandela, Christiaan Barnard and Desmond Tutu.

Allan MacLeod Cormack
from 1950 to 1957
3 moments here
South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…
Christiaan Barnard
from 1951 to 1983
6 moments here
South African cardiac surgeon who led the team that performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape…
Desmond Tutu
from 1986 to 1990
5 moments here
South African Anglican bishop, theologian, anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop of Cape Town, and chair of South Africa’s…
Elizabeth II
in 1947
2 moments here
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death.…
F. W. de Klerk
in 1990
1 moment here
South African lawyer and National Party politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994…
Nelson Mandela
from 1955 to 1990
9 moments here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Steve Biko
from 1971 to 1977
2 moments here
Bantu Stephen Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist and a leading theorist and organizer of the Black Consciousness Movement.…