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Govender is a surname of Indian origin, from Gounder, found among Indian South African Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The majority live in and around the city of Durban, making it one of the la ...s. Notable people with the surname include: * Karthy Govender, South African human rights commissioner and academic * Kessie Govender (1942–2002), South African playwright and actor * Maggie Govender, South African politician * Pregs Govender, South African activist * Rogers Govender (born 1960), Church of England dean * Ronnie Govender (1934–2021), South African playwright and writer * Venitia Govender, South African activist {{surname Surnames of Indian origin Tamil-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gounder
Gounder is a title used by various communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It may refer to various communities such as Kongu Vellalar, Vettuva Gounder, Vettuva, Vanniyar, Kurumba Gounder, Kurumba, Thuluva Vellalar, :ta:Urali_Gounder, Urali, Vokkaliga, Tamil Vokkaligas. Etymology There are a number of derivations for the title. One theory derives it from the Tamil language, Tamil word ''Kaamindan'', meaning "noble protector of the country", later modified as ''Kavundan'' or Gounder. According to S. N. Sadasivan, some of these Vellalars branched off from the Vokkaligas and both might have a common origin from the Kuruba, Kurumba. History During the British Raj era, some Gounders migrated to British Malaya, Malayan rubber plantations as kangani system, Kanganis to manage the coolies. References Gounder, Tamil society Surnames of Indian origin Karnataka society Social groups of Tamil Nadu South Indian communities {{India-ethno-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian South African
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The majority live in and around the city of Durban, making it one of the largest ethnically Indian-populated cities outside of India. As a consequence of the policies of apartheid, ''Indian'' (synonymous with ''Asian)'' is regarded as a race group in South Africa. Racial identity During the colonial era, Indians were accorded the same subordinate status in South African society as Blacks were by the white minority, which held the vast majority of political power. During the period of apartheid from 1948 to 1994, Indian South Africans were legally classified as being a separate racial group. During the most intense period of segregation and apartheid, "Indian", "Coloured" and " Malay" group identities controlled numerous aspects of daily life, including where a classified person was permitted to live and stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karthy Govender
Karthy Govender is a commissioner for the South African Human Rights Commission. Karthy Govender, along with Commissioner Jody Kollapen are two Commissioners of minority South African Indian Tamil ancestry. Karthy Govender is also an associate professor in the law faculty at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he teaches Constitutional and Administrative Law. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (branded as Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparati .... He has widely published in literature on Constitutional law. References External linksKarthy Govender Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Govender, Karthy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people South African people of Indian descent South African people of Tamil descent University of Durban-Westv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kessie Govender
Kessie Govender (1942 – 2002) was a pioneering voice in South African protest theatre, a playwright, actor and theatre director, who founded the Stable Theatre, a Durban-based theatre company in 1970 and is best known for his plays, ''Working Class Hero'' (1979) and ''The Shack'' (1979). Early life He was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, his grandfather having come to South Africa as a Tamil indentured laborer from India. His father was a bricklayer upon leaving school and then Kessie also took up this trade. Kessie’s introduction to creative arts happened as a young Shaivite devotee, who participated in local religious tableaus under Guru Subramanian Swamigal the founder of the Saiva Sithanda Sungum in Derby Street Durban. Career Govender started writing plays in the 1970s. Over his 30-year career, he wrote, produced, directed and acted in around 15 of his own stage productions, ''Stable Expense'' and ''Working Class Hero'' being two of his best known pieces. In addition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Govender
Magesvari "Maggie" Govender is a South African politician who represents the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature. A former anti-apartheid activist, she was KwaZulu-Natal's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Human Settlements and Public Works between 2009 and 2011 and she has served as an ordinary Member of the Provincial Legislature since leaving that office. Early life and activism Govender was born in Durban in present-day KwaZulu-Natal (then Natal province) and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old, her family was forcibly resettled to Chatsworth, a township designated for Indians under the apartheid-era Group Areas Act. She matriculated at Chatsworth Secondary School and enrolled in a medical degree at the University of Durban-Westville. In her second year at the university, she transferred to a humanities degree and also became politically active through the student representative council, the Natal Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pregs Govender
Pregaluxmi "Pregs" Govender (born 15 February 1960) is a South African human rights activist, author, and politician. Brought up in a political family she was taking action against apartheid by the age of 14. She became a teacher in Durban joining unions and the ANC. In 1994 she entered the first South African Democratic parliament where she argued for women's rights including the laws permitting abortions. Life Govender was born in 1960 in Durban and she was brought up in a family of five in a two room flat. Her parents were obliged to live there because the Apartheid government was passed laws that made it illegal for people of some races from living in the place of their choice. This was known as urban apartheid. Govender was exposed to many visitors to their home and by the age of fourteen she was an activist against apartheid. She attended university and worked as a teacher in Durban. Democratic South African Parliament (1994-2002) In 1994, Govender was elected as a membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogers Govender
Rogers Morgan Govender MBE (born 29 June 1960) is a South African Anglican priest. Since 2006, he has been Dean of Manchester. He is a sixth generation South African. Early life Govender was born on 29 June 1960 in Durban, Province of Natal, South Africa. He is a sixth generation South African of South Indian ancestry. In 1983, he entered St Paul's College, Grahamstown, an Anglican theological college, to train for ministry in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. Ordained ministry Govender was ordained deacon in 1985 and priest in 1986. He was priest in charge at St Mary's Church, Greyville, Durban from 1988 until 1993 when he was transferred to St Matthew's Hayfields, Pietermaritzburg where he was rector and subsequently St Thomas's Musgrave Road. He graduated from the University of Natal with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree in 1997. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2002 after 15 years of service in the Diocese of Natal. On arrival in England, he was pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Govender
Sathiseelan Gurilingam "Ronnie" Govender (16 May 193429 April 2021) was a South African playwright, theatre director and activist known for his community theatre efforts. He was known as a pioneer of Indian South African theatre in the country. Some of his notable works included ''Black Chin White Chin, Song of the Atman,'' and ''At the Edge and Other Cato Manor Stories''. ''At the Edge'' won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, ''Africa''. Govender received the government of South Africa's Order of Ikhamanga in 2008 for his contributions to democracy, peace and justice in the country through theatre. Early life Sathiseelan Gurilingam Govender was born on 16 May 1934 in Cato Manor, an Indian neighbourhood of Durban. His father was also born in Cato Manor, while his mother was born in Fynnlands, another part of Durban. His grandparents on both sides of the family came from South India. After completing their term of indenture, his grandparents settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venitia Govender
Venitia Govender is a South African social justice and human rights activist. She has been involved in the research, lobbying and advocacy, monitoring and challenging the promotion and protection of rights in the Southern African Region for over 20 years. In the 1980s she graduated from the University of Durban-Westville. In the early nineties, during the height of the violence during the transition in South Africa, she co-ordinated the independent violence monitoring organisation, Peace Action. She was the first coordinator of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) and then a legal advisor to Gauteng's Secretariat of Safety and Security. Venitia spent three years as the National Director of the Human Rights Committee before becoming an independent consultant on human rights, governance and peacebuilding issues, working throughout the Southern African region. During this period she edited quarterly reports on the "state of human rights promotion and protection" in Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surnames Of Indian Origin
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. Compound surn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
