Niel Barnard
Lukas Daniel Barnard( born 1949), known as Niël Barnard, is a former head of South Africa's National Intelligence Service and was notable for his behind- the- scenes role in preparing Nelson Mandela and South African presidents P.W. Botha and F. W. de Klerk for Mandela's eventual and, as he saw it, inevitable, release from prison and rise to political power.
Derek Keys
Derek Lyle Keys( 30 August 1931 – 29 April 2018) was a South African politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to September 1994, in the cabinets of F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.
Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent( born Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente; July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) was an American film director.
Though he directed many television movies, his best known feature- length works were arguably the theatrical releases:
Burt Reynolds action movie" White Lightning", Gregory Peck biopic" MacArthur", and horror anthology" Nightmares".
His most popular feature film was subway thriller" The Taking of Pelham One Two Three".
Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career.
He is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent.
John Meyer (artist)
John Meyer( born 1942) is a South African painter.
He has exhibited extensively in South African and abroad specialising in landscapes and portraits( including portraits of Nobel laureates Nelson Mandela and FW De Klerk and concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz) in a photo- realist style.
More recently he describes his work as falling into what he terms a" narrative genre" where paintings are often part of a series( usually three to six) of chronological scenes.
Mandela and de Klerk
Mandela and de Klerk is a 1997 made- for- television drama film written by Richard Wesley and directed by Joseph Sargent.
The film stars Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine.
The film documents the negotiations between F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela to end South African apartheid, and was nominated for numerous awards in 1997 and 1998.
It originally premiered on Showtime on February 16, 1997.
The Bride Came C.O.D.
The Bride Came C.O.D. is a 1941 Warner Bros. screwball romantic comedy starring James Cagney as an aeroplane pilot and Bette Davis as a runaway heiress, and directed by William Keighley.
Although the film was publicized as the first screen pairing of Warner Bros.' two biggest stars, they had actually made" Jimmy the Gent" together in 1934, and had wanted to find another opportunity to work together.
The screenplay was written by Kenneth Earl, M. M. Musselman, and twins Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.
The basic plot owes much to" It Happened One Night", in which an heiress seeks to marry a playboy of whom her father disapproves, only to end up with a charming working man.
William Keighley
William Jackson Keighley( August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director.
After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23.
By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway.
With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood.
He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres.
He was the initial director of" The Adventures of Robin Hood", starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz.
During World War II, he supervised the First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Forces.
He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin.
In retirement he became an award- winning, renowned still photographer.
He died of a stroke.
Marike de Klerk
Marike de Klerk( 29 March 1937 – 3 December 2001) was the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of State President Frederik Willem de Klerk, from 1989- 1994.
She was also a politician of the former governing National Party in her own right.
De Klerk was murdered in her Cape Town home in 2001.
F. W. de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk( born 18 March 1936) is a South African politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996.
As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white- minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage.
Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997.
Born in Johannesburg, British Dominion of South Africa, to an influential Afrikaner family, de Klerk studied at Potchefstroom University before pursuing a career in law.
Joining the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white- minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts.
As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged white South Africans.
After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President.
Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defence of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy.
He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war.
Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between Xhosa and Zulu, although de Klerk later denied sanctioning such actions.
He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalised a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela.
He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program.
De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage.
In 1993, he publicly apologised for apartheid's harmful effects, although not for apartheid itself.
He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress( ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote.
After the election, de Klerk became a Deputy President in Mandela's ANC- led coalition, the Government of National Unity.
In this position, he supported the government's liberal economic policies.
De Klerk had desired a total amnesty for political crimes committed under apartheid and opposed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to investigate past human rights abuses by both pro and anti-apartheid groups.
His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he later spoke fondly of him.
In May 1996, after the National Party objected to the new constitution, de Klerk withdrew it from the coalition government; the party disbanded the following year and reformed as the New National Party.
In 1997, he retired from active politics and since then has lectured internationally.
De Klerk is a controversial figure.
The recipient of a wide range of awards —including the Nobel Peace Prize—he was widely praised for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa.
Conversely, anti-apartheid activists criticised him for offering only a qualified apology for apartheid and for ignoring the human rights abuses carried out by his state security forces, while South Africa's white right- wing claimed that by abandoning apartheid he had betrayed the interests of the country's white minority.
Veronica de Klerk
Veronica Cecilia de Klerk( born 26 November 1947) is a Namibian women's rights activist.
Veronica Cecilia
De Klerk is a former television news presenter and actuality radio programme presenter with the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation in Namibia, and was educated in Germany in the" Promotion of Women's Self- help programmes in developing countries".
During 1996, Veronica De Klerk was appointed the first Executive Director of the Women's Action for Development( WAD) – a prominent non-partisan, non-profit- making women's movement in Namibia, which is widely recognised as a visible, vocal, and a fast- moving NGO in Namibia.
Under her leadership, WAD has established" Community Voice" programmes in all regions of the country, which consists of 107 Community Voice members, and who act as Trainers and Fieldworkers for WAD, to act and speak out on behalf of rural communities on their numerous social challenges.
The Community Voices assist in identifying and solving their social challenges in partnership with decision- makers in the regions.
Moreover, WAD has training centres in the regions of Omusati( north), Karas( far south) and Hardap( south), where skills training is offered to the most marginalised.
The organisation has further trained thousands of unemployed rural people to acquire various skills, which enabled them to successfully enter the labour market, while having assisted others to establish various income- generating ventures, country- wide.
Furthermore, WAD has under her leadership, trained and graduated 170 members of the Defence Force and 200 members of the Police Force in various skills, such as computer literacy; office administration, English statements and report- writing, to improve their work performance.
Moreover, WAD has trained and graduated Prisoners and Wardens in various skills, as well as Commercial Sex Workers to acquire skills to take up more honourable employment in the labour market.
During 1997, Veronica De Klerk was appointed to the Namibian President's Economic Advisory Council.
During 2004, De Klerk was acknowledged in the publication:" Guide to Namibian Politics" as heading the most prominent women's movement and one of the most successful NGO's in the country and acknowledged as one of 109 Namibian key- players that influences political direction in the country.
During 2005, De Klerk was nominated by the Namibian media as the" Spokesperson of the Year for the Public and NGO sectors".
During 2005, De Klerk was nominated by the" French Association of Friendship and Solidarity with African Peoples" as one of 52 African women" Who make Africa Move"!
During 2006, Veronica De Klerk was, together with the President of the Council of Churches in Namibia and retired Bishop, Dr. Zephania Kameeta, nominated by the" Global Call to Action Against Poverty"( GCAP), as" Goodwill Ambassador" for Namibia, in honour of her exemplary work performed in the reduction of poverty in Namibia".
During 2006, under her leadership, WAD commissioned a two- year research project, to determine the root causes of violence against women and girls, together with the University of Namibia and the Ministry of Safety and Security, while interviewing 200 convicted perpetrators in most prisons country- wide.
Alcohol abuse was found to be the main cause of violence against women, among many other causes.
De Klerk further contributed towards the publications:" Women and Custom – Cultural practices versus Gender Equality", as well as" Children's Rights in Namibia" together with the Law Faculty of the University of Namibia.
During 2006, De Klerk commissioned and directed a nationwide educational anti-corruption television programme in Namibia, in which thousands of viewers participated.
During this project, 50 000 anti-corruption messages were received and channelled through to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
During 2007, the Namibian Minister of Works, Transport and Communication conferred Veronica De Klerk as “ Goodwill Ambassador for Road Safety in Namibia ”.
During 2009, under her leadership, WAD co-hosted, in partnership with the Anti-Corruption Commission of Namibia, the awareness- raising" Great Walk against Corruption" in which thousands of people from all sectors of society participated in the capital.
During 2011, under her leadership, WAD formed a Tri-partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Law Faculty of the University of Namibia to penetrate all Junior and Senior Secondary Schools country- wide, to train 800 School Counsellors and Life Skills Teachers in the causes and consequences of Gender Based Violence, with the view to sensitise and educate 67 552 learners, with the aim of training learners to value and respect women and girls and to dramatically reduce violent behaviour in the Namibian society.
During 2011, WAD and its main donor as implementing agents, together with the Ministry of Gender Equality& Child Welfare; the Law Faculty of the University of Namibia; and the Legal Assistance Centre, launched a N $6 Million project:" My Rights as a Woman and Namibian Citizen: Gender and Human Rights Awareness- raising in the Namibian Society", to contribute towards a more gender sensitive Namibian society where human rights are protected and where women enjoy equal opportunities without fear of discrimination, marginalisation or harassment.
9 000 community members; decision- makers and community leaders were trained in the contents of gender- related laws, including the Combating of the Domestic.
Violence Law; the Combating of the Rape Law; the Child Maintenance Law; and the Married Persons' Equality Law, for women and men to know their rights within those laws.
During 2012, the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare appointed Veronica De Klerk as one of 5 Commissioners to serve on the" Namibian Minimum Wage Commission for Domestic Workers" to establish a national minimum wage for Domestic Workers for the country.
During 2013, De Klerk commissioned and directed a nationwide anti Gender Based Violence television programme as an educational national awareness- raising television campaign to stop the spate of violence in Namibia.
During 2014, His Excellency, President Dr. Hifikepunye Pohamba appointed Veronica De Klerk, as one of 18 Commissioners to serve on the National Planning Commission, to assist in addressing poverty, unemployment, the lack of skills among poor communities, as well as the evils of Gender Based Violence; Alcohol and Drug abuse, Teenage Pregnancies, etc. During 2012, 2013, and 2014, under her leadership, the" Professional Management Review"( PMR), based in South Africa, presented WAD with one Gold Award and 2 Diamond Awards respectively, for excellent leadership and achievements.
A powerful attribute of De Klerk is her visibility in the mass media of the country, in which she regularly speaks out against various social evils, injustices and inequalities in society, there by improving the status of women in society.
This has made her a powerful agent for social change.
De Klerk serves on various directorships.
She has produced various publications and has presented various papers at local and international conferences on the advancement of women and rural communities.
WAD has trained over 50 000 poor, unemployed, and unskilled women and men country- wide, mostly free of charge, while between 65% and 70% of those trained have found job placements in the labour market or established own income- generating ventures.
De Klerk grew up in Windhoek, the island territory of St. Helena, and in South Africa.
She was a television personality during the 1980s on the South West African Broadcasting Corporation prior to independence in 1990.

Question: Do both films: Mandela And De Klerk and The Bride Came C.O.D. have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes