• South African Sportsperson of the Year are annual sporting awards given to best South African athletes. "2014 SA Sports Awards: All the winners". www...
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  • Sport—athlete of the year  Slovakia Sportsperson of the Year  Slovenia Slovenian Sportsman of the year  South Africa South African Sportsperson of the Year  Spain...
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  • of the Year Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Laureus Action Sportsperson of the Year The nominees of the Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year...
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  • Mallon, Bill; et al. "List of sportsperson-politicians". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 12 November...
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    Kirsten Neuschäfer (category South African female sailors (sport))
    1982) is a South African sailor specializing in high latitude and high adventure sailing. She is the winner of the 2022 Golden Globe Race, the first woman...
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    January 1984) is a South African/Italian sportsman who plays professional cricket and previously played field hockey for the South Africa men's national field...
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    is a South African former professional cricketer, who played all forms of the game. He was the first black player to play for the South African national...
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  • Tazmin Brits (category South African female javelin throwers)
    Tazmin Brits (born 8 January 1991) is a South African athlete and cricketer. She won gold in the javelin throw at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics...
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    sportsperson of the year, the first time a football player has been awarded the prize. "Cristiano Ronaldo named as the European Sportsperson of the Year". Realmadrid...
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  • BBC Sports Personality of the Year award ceremony. The award is presented to a non-British sportsperson considered to have made the most substantial contribution...
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    Danny Jordaan (category South African sportsperson-politicians)
    is the president of the South African Football Association (SAFA). He is a former lecturer, politician and anti-apartheid activist. He led South Africa's...
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    AB de Villiers (category South African expatriate cricketers in India)
    1984) is a South African former international cricketer, and a current commentator. AB de Villiers was named as the ICC ODI Player of the Year three times...
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    Player of the Year in 2016, and was also New Zealand's age-grade player of the year that year. He was named Taranaki Sportsperson of the Year at the Taranaki...
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  • Stephanie Gilmore (category Sportswomen from New South Wales)
    Fame and won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the year award. Gilmore is currently the top athlete on the ROXY Surf Team. In 2014, Gilmore starred...
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    Oscar Pistorius (category South African people convicted of murder)
    November 1986) is a South African former professional sprinter and convicted murderer. He was first convicted of culpable homicide of his then-girlfriend...
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    Sangram Singh (category Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from January 2024)
    March 2016, by defeating South African wrestler Ananzi, keeping the belt in India. The match was held at Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Sangram Singh intends...
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  • Mpumelelo Mhlongo (category Use South African English from October 2023)
    Programme (OPEX). Sportsman with a Disability of the Year (2019) SA Sports Award (2022) Sportsperson of the Year "Plan comes together as Louzanne Coetzee wins...
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    assumed chairmanship of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), a Pan-African group designed to promote solidarity among African states (an annually rotating...
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    Mike Horn (category South African explorers)
    (born 16 July 1966) is a South African-born Swiss professional explorer and adventurer. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he currently resides in Château...
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  • Brandon Valjalo (category South African skateboarders)
    1998) is a South African professional skateboarder who competed in the men's street event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the men’s street...
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    to a minimum of two different levels of government: central government through SARS or to local government. Prior to 2001 the South African tax system was...
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    George Weah (category African Footballer of the Year winners)
    only African Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner in history, winning both awards in 1995. He won the African footballer of the year 3 times...
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    Kelly Slater (category American people of Syrian descent)
    as the greatest professional surfer of all time, and holds 56 Championship Tour victories. He won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year four-times...
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    LeBron James (redirect from The King of NBA)
    Athlete of the Year (2013, 2016, 2018, 2020) 3× Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year (2012, 2016, 2020) 2012 Sporting News Athlete of the Year 3× Sporting...
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  • Flo Kennedy (bowls) (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    the gold medal in the triples event with Anna Bates and Margaret Mills. This led to her being voted Zimbabwe Sportsperson of the Year in 1982. In 1973...
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    Peter de Villiers (category South African sportsperson-politicians)
    3 June 1957) is a South African professional rugby union coach and former Good Party politician. He was coach of the South Africa national rugby union...
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  • Dawie de Villiers (category South African sportsperson-politicians)
    the Dutch Reformed Church; a South African Government minister and a Springbok rugby captain. His father Coenie was a railway clerk and organizer of the...
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    Beauden Barrett (category World Rugby Players of the Year)
    only the second player to win the award in back-to-back years, after former teammate Richie McCaw. He also won the overall Sportsperson of the Year Award...
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  • Botha (category South African families)
    first Prime Minister of South Africa, often referred to as "General Botha" Pieter Willem "P.W." Botha (1916–2006), South African prime minister from 1978...
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    African American expatriate Kainee Simone, and sportsperson Israel Adesanya compared racism, mass incarceration, and police violence against African Americans...
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