Isizwe - The People of South Africa Quiz

Answer: Louis Washkansky

Washkansky was suffering from heart failure and opted for the experimental surgery, which was successful. Unfortunately, Washkansky died 18 days later despite the successful heart transplant.
Lucky Dube was a popular SA reggae singer who died in 2007. Louis Luyt was president of the South African Rugby Union in the 1990s. Barry Hilton is a SA comedian.

Answer: Allan Cormack

The CAT scan, was developed at Tufts University in the UK by South African physicist Cormack and Hounsfield.
Dr Barnard is credited for performing the first heart transplant. Lauterbur and Mansfield won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging (they're not South African).

Answer: J C Smuts

Apartheid was the name given to segregation of races and repression of the non-white races. All four answers are names of South African prime ministers who headed the country while the apartheid policy was still in place.

Answer: Mark Shuttleworth

Shuttleworth made his mega-millions in the Information Technology sector at a young age, and at 29 he pursued his dream of going into space as a self-funded "space tourist". While in space, he assisted in research related to AIDS and genome analysis.

Answer: Zola

The genre of music featured prominently on the soundtrack is Kwaito. Its roots may be in the townships of SA but it has become mainstream in the 21st century. Zola first became popular amongst the youth of South Africa as a result of television appearances, one in which he played a gangster. Since those early days, he has established himself as a kwaito artist, appeared in movies and launched his own clothing brand.

Answer: Francois Pienaar & John Smit

The winning of the Rugby World Cup in 1995 and again in 2007 had the dramatic effect of uniting the country through sport. The winning of the 1995 World Cup was especially significant as it marked the return of the South African team following long-term bans on South African participation in sports by overseas countries to protest the policies of apartheid.
Rugby, cricket and soccer are the most popular sports in South Africa.

Answer: Chief Albert Luthuli

Luthuli was the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960.
All four individuals won the Nobel Peace prize for actively opposing apartheid. Tutu received the prize in 1984. Mandela and de Klerk were co-recipients of the Prize in 1993.

Answer: San

The San (politically incorrectly known as the Bushmen) inhabited the Drakensberg mountains in the interior of the country from the Stone Age until the nineteenth century. Their paintings demonstrate their belief-systems, animals in their environment and their daily activities such as hunting.

Answer: Remains of a skeleton found in the Transvaal

Mrs (or Mr) Ples is the name given to a skull that was found in the area now known as the Cradle of Humankind not far from Johannesburg in 1947. The skull has been recognised as falling into the Australopithecus africanus species and is suspected to be similar to be a forebear of the modern human being.
The other options are fictitious.

Answer: Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Tutu used this phrase for post-apartheid South Africa which was subsequently used by Nelson Mandela, and which has become a catch-phrase in South African dialogue.