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Thandi (name)
Thandi is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Thandi Brewer, South African television actress * Thandi Klaasen (1931–2017), South African jazz singer *Thandi Modise (born 1959), South African politician * Thandi Ndlovu (c. 1954–2019), South African medical doctor and businesswoman * Thandi Orleyn (born 1956), South African lawyer *Thandi Phoenix (born 1993), Australian singer-songwriter * Thandi Sibisi (born 1986), South African art gallery owner and former model * Thandi Shongwe (born 1962), South African politician * Thandi Tshabalala (born 1984), South African cricketer Surname *Karman Thandi Karman Kaur Thandi (born 16 June 1998) is an Indian professional tennis player. She has been a previous Indian number one in singles. Thandi has career-high WTA rankings of 196 in singles, as of 20 August 2018, and No. 180 in doubles, as of 1 ... (born 1998), Indian tennis player See also * Thandi (rhinoceros) * Thandie, a given name * Thandiwe, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Brewer
Thandi Brewer (died 12 June 2019) was a South African showrunner, screenwriter, film producer, director, and script editor. Early life and family Brewer was born in South Africa and lived in Lower Houghton, Johannesburg, before relocating to the rural Hennops River region. She came from a family that worked in the South African entertainment industry. Her grandfather was Jimmy Hunter, a stand-up comic and producer of ''Jimmy Hunter's Brighton Follies''. Her father, Bill Brewer, was a cartoonist, actor, musician, composer, writer, and critic for the ''Sunday Times'' (South Africa). Her mother, British-born actress and writer Fiona Fraser, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Naledi Theatre Awards in 2005. Brewer began performing as a child, appearing in a diaper commercial at six months old. Her early acting credits include the films '' Majuba'' and ''Escape Route Cape Town'', and at age 5, she starred in the radio show ''Thandi Time.'' Career Theatre and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Klaasen
Thandi Klaasen (born Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani, 27 September 1931 – 15 January 2017) was a jazz musician from Sophiatown, Gauteng. She was the mother of singer Lorraine Klaasen. Biography Thandiwe Nelly Mpambani grew up in Sophiatown, the daughter of a shoemaker and a domestic worker.Thandi Klaasen profile When she was a teenager, she was attacked with an acid bomb and her face was permanently scarred.Kagiso Msimango, "Warrior Goddess: Thandi Klaasen" The Goddess Academy, 20 May 2006. Her career as a singer and dancer began in the mid-1950s. Klaasen performed with |
Thandi Modise
Thandi Ruth Modise (born 25 December 1959) is a South African politician who served as the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans from 2021 to 2024. She was previously the Premier of the North West from 2010 to 2014, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces from 2014 to 2019, and Speaker of the National Assembly from 2019 to 2021. Modise has been a member of the African National Congress (ANC) since the 1976 Soweto uprising, when she dropped out of high school to join uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the ANC's armed wing, in exile. In 1978 she returned to South Africa as a trained guerrilla operative for MK and from 1980 to 1988 she was imprisoned under the Terrorism Act for her anti-apartheid activism. She was elected to the South African Parliament in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. After ten years in the National Assembly, she served as the Speaker of the North West Provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2009 before becoming Premier in 2010. She next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Ndlovu
Thandi Ndlovu (1953/1954 - August 24, 2019) was a South African medical doctor and businesswoman who was best known as the founder of the Motheo Construction Group. Early life and education Ndlovu was born in Soweto, South Africa where she attended Orlando High School. In 1976, whilst a student at the University of Fort Hare, Ndlovu entered into exile in order to escape the attention of apartheid security services. Between 1977 and 1984, Ndlovu joined African National Congress as an Umkhonto we Sizwe member operating outside of South Africa, moving from Mozambique to Zambia, and then onto southern Angola, where she received training; afterward, she attended a school for the Young Communist League in Moscow, USSR. In 1984 she enrolled at the University of Zambia to study medicine, after which she returned to South Africa and interned at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Business career Whilst practicing medicine in South Africa, Ndlovu noticed that many of the ailments among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Orleyn
Noluthando Dorian Bahedile "Thandi" Orleyn (born 13 January 1956) is a South African lawyer and businesswoman who is currently the chairperson of Impala Platinum and BP Southern Africa. She rose to prominence in the business world as a co-founder and executive director of Peotona Holdings, a prominent black economic empowerment (BEE) investment vehicle. Before that, she was director of the public Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and a practicing lawyer. Early life and education Orleyn was born in New Brighton, a township outside Port Elizabeth in the former Cape Province. She matriculated at Inanda Seminary School in 1974 and went on to study law at the University of Fort Hare and University of South Africa. She became involved in anti-apartheid activism as a teenager in the Cape Province and remained so after moving to Katlehong, where Bertha Gxowa became her political mentor. Legal career Orleyn spent the first decade of her career in legal prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Phoenix
Thandiwe Phoenix, better known by her stage name Thandi Phoenix, is an Australian musician and singer. Career Thandi Phoenix first broke into the mainstream with the hit single "My Way" in 2018. She has had a string of successful releases and collaborations with big names in dance and pop, including Sigma and Rudimental. In 2021, her collaborations with Mell Hall saw the duo take out longest reigning female lead No. 1 on the Australian ARIA Club chart. Thandi Phoenix has performed at festivals such as Spilt Milk, Splendour in the Grass, and WOMADelaide. She has supported Rudimental, Vera Blue, Jhene Aiko, Tinashe, and Tinie Tempah on their Australian national tours. Thandi performed at the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony in April 2018. In March 2019, Thandi performed on Triple J's Like a Version, and in October 2019, she released her self-titled debut EP. She was a guest performer at the 2019 NRL Grand Final, and in 2020, she performed to a live audience of 75,000 people a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Sibisi
Ithandile Sibisi (born 4 November 1986) is a South African art dealer who owns Sibisi Gallery. She founded Sibisi Gallery in 2012, at the age of 25, making her the first black woman to own an art gallery in South Africa. Sibisi Gallery, also one of the first black female owned galleries in the world becampart of the establishment in the contemporary African art space. Early life and education Sibisi was born on 4 November 1986 in Estcourt, South Africa to Siphiwo Sibisi and Sizeni MaMncube Sibisi. She is the last born of 9 children. Sibisi grew up in Weenen, a small town well known for its political and tribal conflicts. Sibisi and her family lived in a village named KwaMtebhelu, surrounded by faction fighting. Sibisi and her family moved to Ladysmith when she was 7-years-old to escape the conflict in Weenen. Sibisi's parents were subsistence farmers of corn and cattle. Sibisi grew up herding cows and tending to the corn fields with her mother, father and siblings. Sibisi cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Shongwe
Blessing Thandi Shongwe (born 28 February 1962) is a South African politician. She formerly served as Speaker of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature from 2014 until March 2018, when she was first appointed to the Mpumalanga Executive Council as the MEC for Culture, Sport and Recreation. Following the 2019 election, she was moved to the Social Development portfolio before returning as the MEC for Culture, Sport and Recreation in February 2021. She left the provincial legislature in May 2024. She is a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Early life and career Shongwe was born on 28 February 1962 in Barberton in the Transvaal, now part of Mpumalanga province. She trained as a teacher. While working as a teacher and then as a headmaster at primary schools in Mpumalanga, she was active in the ANC's Ehlanzeni regional branch, in the ANC Women's League, and in the South African Democratic Teachers Union. From 2000 to 2006, she was an ANC local councillor in Ehlanzeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi Tshabalala
Thandi Tshabalala (born 19 November 1984) is a South African cricketer who plays first-class cricket for the Eagles as a specialist off spinner. He was first called up to the South African team in February 2006, as he made the squad for their Twenty20 International against Australia, but did not play. In July, he was again selected, this time in a 14-man squad to tour Sri Lanka, but was not picked for the final eleven in the first Test. UCBSA chief of selectors, Haroon Lorgat, said it was "very unlikely that he ouldplay in the first Test." and that he was there to "gain exposure and experience." Tshabalala has won two Man of the Match awards in his 52 official matches for Eagles and Free State, from CricketArchive, retrieved 30 July 2006 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karman Thandi
Karman Kaur Thandi (born 16 June 1998) is an Indian professional tennis player. She has been a previous Indian number one in singles. Thandi has career-high WTA rankings of 196 in singles, as of 20 August 2018, and No. 180 in doubles, as of 14 January 2019. In 2023, Karman Kaur Thandi married Gurjant Singh, an Indian national hockey player. Tennis career She started playing tennis at the age of eight. Thandi is the sixth Indian female tennis player to enter the top 200 of the WTA rankings, after the likes of Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza, Shikha Uberoi, Sunitha Rao, and Ankita Raina. Thandi has won four singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit- the maiden singles title in $25k Hong Kong tournament on 23 June 2018, and the doubles titles in 2017 in Heraklion, and two in 2015 in Gulbarga. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she achieved a career-high ranking of 32 in January 2016. Additionally, she also made it to the semifinals in two other tournaments in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandi (rhinoceros)
Thandi is a female Southern white rhinoceros living in Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. She is the first known rhinoceros to have survived being poached. Background Thandi grew up in Kariega Game Reserve with several other rhinoceroses. After the poaching incident, she was named Thandi, a isiXhosa Xhosa ( , ), formerly spelled ''Xosa'' and also known by its local name ''isiXhosa'', is a Bantu language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language ... word which translates to "courage". Poaching incident On 2 March 2012, Thandi and two other rhinoceroses were poached in Kariega Game Reserve. One died overnight, but Thandi and another rhinoceros were found by wildlife conservationists. With the help of the other conservationists, Dr. William Fowlds treated the rhinoceroses for their injuries. The other rhinoceros was named Themba and survived for another month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandie
Thandie is a given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Thandie Galleta (born 1993), Malawian netball player * Thandiwe Newton (born 1972), English actress formerly credited as Thandie Newton Fictional characters * Thandie Abebe, character on the British medical drama ''Holby City'' See also * Thandi (other) *Thandi (name) Thandi is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Thandi Brewer, South African television actress * Thandi Klaasen (1931–2017), South African jazz singer *Thandi Modise (born 1959), South African politician * Thandi Ndl ..., a given name * Thandiwe, a given name {{given name Given names of Botswana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
