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Fourie
Fourie is a South African surname originating from Huguenot settlers. Notable people with the surname include: *Johan Fourie (born 1959), South African middle-distance athlete * Abrie Fourie (born 1969), South Africa-born artist * (1882–1941), South African minister of Mines and Industries * Charles J. Fourie (born 1965), South African playwright and director *Hendre Fourie (born 1979), South Africa-born English rugby union player * Jaco Fourie (born 1975), South African equestrian athlete * Jaque Fourie (born 1983), South African rugby union player *John Fourie (born 1939), South African golfer *Thinus Fourie (born 1979), South Africa-born Irish cricketer * Brenden Fourie (born 1970), South African cricketer *Yolani Fourie (born 1989), South African cricketer *Pierre Fourie (born 1943), South African boxer See also *Fourie du Preez (born 1982), South African rugby union player *''Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie ''Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another; L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenden Fourie
Brenden Craig Fourie (born 13 April 1970) is a former South African cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born at East London, Cape Province. First-class cricket Fourie made his first-class debut for Border against Eastern Province in the 1988/89 season. From the 1988/89 season to the 1997/98 season, Fourie represented Border in 48 first-class matches, the last of which came against Eastern Province. In his 48 matches for the Border, he scored 638 runs at a batting average of 12.26, with a single half century high score of 57. In the field he took 14 catches. With the ball he took 148 wickets at a bowling average of 28.69, with 7 five wicket hauls and best figures of 6/74. He also played a single first-class match each for Border B, a Combined Bowl XI and Leicestershire in English county cricket. List A cricket In the 1988/89 South African cricket season, Fourie made his debut in List A cricket for the Impalas against Natal in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abrie Fourie
Abrie Fourie (born 1969) is a South African born artist. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. While specialising in photography and digital media, Fourie prefers not to be bound by a specific genre. His photographs have been described as capturing mundane moments and transforming them into static abstractions. Exhibitions Fourie first exhibited his work in South Africa in 1992, and internationally in 1995, as part of a group exhibition: 'Spring Time in Chile' at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art. Fourie's first one-person exhibition was held in Pretoria, at the Verwoerdburg Art Gallery in 1996, titled: 'Inside this house, 1993-1996' and his first international solo exhibition, 'observatório # 4 – Whatever, Wherever' was held at Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium in 2003. Other solo exhibitions include: 'End of the World', at the Museum for African Art, New York, USA in 2004; 'where-we-r.com', at the Forum d’art contemporian FAC, in Sierre, Switzerland, 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Home Affairs V Fourie
''Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another; Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Others'', 005ZACC 19, is a landmark decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in which the court ruled unanimously that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. The judgment, authored by Justice Albie Sachs and delivered on 1 December 2005, gave Parliament one year to pass the necessary legislation. As a result, the Civil Union Act came into force on 30 November 2006, making South Africa the fifth country in the world to recognise same-sex marriage. The case was heard on May 17, 2005, by Langa ACJ, Madala J, Mokgoro J, Moseneke J, Ngcobo J, O'Regan J, Sachs J, Skweyiya J, Yacoob J and Van Der Westhuizen J. MTK Moerane SC (with S. Nthai) appeared for the applicants, P Oosthuizen (with T Kathri) for the respondents, JJ Smyth QC for the first and second ''amici curiae'', GC Pretorius SC (with DM Achtzehn, PG Sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaco Fourie
Jaco Fourie is a South African equestrian athlete and SA National Champion in dressage. , ''Exclusive: An Interview with Jaco Fourie'', Referenced 15 October 2008 He lives near Kimberley, South Africa, Kimberley, ''Jaco Fourie – Professional Rider'', Referenced 15 October 2008 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendre Fourie
Carel Hendrik Fourie, generally known as Hendre Fourie (born 19 September 1979 in Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape), is a retired South African professional Rugby footballer who finished his career playing for Aviva Premiership side Sale Sharks after signing from Leeds Carnegie in the Summer of 2011. His preferred position was at Flanker. Although he was born in South Africa, he is qualified for England through residency laws. BBC Sport. 2009-09-08. Retrieved 2010-03-04. He made his debut for his adopted nation on Saturday 6 November 2010 as a late replacement in a defeat to New Zealand at Twickenham. Known to his team mates as 'Shrek,' Fourie moved to England in 2005 when he signed for Rotherham Titans. He was a central figure as Rotherham beat Leeds twice in the 2006–07 seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Fourie
Pierre Jacy Fourie was a South African boxer. He was the undefeated middle and light heavyweight South African champion and held both titles at the same time. He retired from the ring in 1977. He died on 21 June 1980, a few days before his 37th birthday in a motor vehicle accident at Cecil Payne Park in Roodepoort South Africa. He was the first white boxer in Apartheid South Africa to fight against a non-white opponent, American Bob Foster on 21 August 1973 in South Africa. Career Trained by Allan Toweel, Pierre joined the professional boxing ranks on 2 May 1966. He won his very first fight with a knockout in the first round. The partnership between Fourie and Toweel, one of the most successful in the history of South African boxing, continued throughout the eleven years of Fourie's career as a boxer. In his 60 professional fights, Fourie distinguished himself as a hard but clean and scientific boxer rather than a rough fighter. He beat Johnny Wood twice and Willie Ludick to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Fourie
Johan Fourie (born December 2, 1959 in Springs) is a South African middle-distance athlete who was one of the world's leading 1500m/mile exponents in the 1980s but was prevented from competing internationally in his prime due to the sporting sanctions imposed on South Africa in condemnation of the policy of apartheid. Fourie's best 1500m performance was 3:33.87, a time recorded at the SA Championships in Stellenbosch in 1987 without significant opposition or pacemakers and his best mile time was 3:50.82 also recorded in 1987. During the mid-1980s he trained with Swiss Pierre Délèze in Europe. Délèze, who defeated Sebastian Coe over 1500m in Zurich in 1985, believed that Fourie was capable of running a sub 3:30 1500m, given the appropriate race conditions Mayer (2009) "Van Deventer a Bright Ray of Sunshine" ''2009 PUK South African Athletics Annual'', p. 12./> He was raised in Vereeniging in Gauteng Province where he attended school and won his first national 1500m in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourie Du Preez
Petrus Fourie du Preez (; born 24 March 1982) is a South African former professional rugby union player. He played as a scrum half for the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup competition and the Bulls in Super Rugby between 2002 and 2011, and for Japanese Top League side Suntory Sungoliath between 2011 and 2016. He represented South Africa between 2004 and 2015, winning 76 caps, playing in three Rugby World Cup tournaments, and winning the 2007 competition. Du Preez made his provincial debut during 2001 for the Blue Bulls in a match against the Leopards in the Currie Cup competition. It was in 2003 that he made his Super 12 (now, Super Rugby) debut for the Bulls side, against the ACT Brumbies. The following year he made his test match debut for the Springboks in a match against Ireland. In 2006, Du Preez was voted SA Rugby Player of the year by the South African Rugby Football Union. He was nominated for IRB player of the year as well. Du Preez has won the IRB u/21 World Cup in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fourie
Jonathan Adriaan Fourie (born 23 August 1939) is a South African professional golfer. Fourie was born in Johannesburg. He turned professional in 1970 and spent his career playing mainly on the Southern Africa Tour and the European Tour. He won ten times on the Southern Africa Tour, including one win as an amateur, and led the Order of Merit in 1973/74. In Europe he won the 1977 Callers of Newcastle tournament and twice finished in the top twenty on the European Tour Order of Merit. He joined the European Seniors Tour in its 1992 debut season, and won the Senior British Open and the Belfast Telegraph Irish Senior Masters on his way to winning that tour's order of merit. He continued to play on the seniors tour into his mid sixties. Professional wins (12) European Tour wins (1) European Tour playoff record (1–0) Sunshine Tour wins (8) *1972 State Mines Open *1973 Transvaal Open, Rothmans Medal *1974 Western Province Open *1975 Vavasseur International Natal Open, Dunlop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yolani Fourie
Yolani Fourie (born 12 October 1989) is a South African cricketer who currently plays for Central Gauteng. She plays as a right-arm off break bowler. She appeared in one Test match, 15 One Day Internationals and 10 Twenty20 Internationals for South Africa between 2014 and 2018. In November 2018, she was added to South Africa's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. In September 2019, she was named in the F van der Merwe XI squad for the inaugural edition of the Women's T20 Super League The Women's T20 Super League is a women's domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament organised by Cricket South Africa. The tournament began in September 2019, with four teams taking part; these teams were renamed for a second competition in December 2 ... in South Africa. References External links * * 1989 births Living people Cricketers from Cape Town South African women cricketers South Africa women Test cricketers South Africa women One Day I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thinus Fourie
Marthinus Jacobus Fourie (born 23 July 1979) is a former Irish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He has played in the Ireland A cricket team since 2004, when he played for the first time against Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence .... He also participated in the EurAsia Cricket Series of 2006. Fourie is a middle order batsman and a decently paced bowler in the Irish attack. He currently coaches cricket at Gonzaga College. 1979 births Living people Irish cricketers Ireland One Day International cricketers Afrikaner people Cricketers from Cape Town {{Ireland-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huguenots In South Africa
Many people of European heritage in South Africa are descended from Huguenots. Most of these originally settled in the Cape Colony, but were absorbed into the Afrikaner and Afrikaans-speaking population, because they had religious similarities to the Dutch colonists. Early arrivals Even before the large-scale arrival of the Huguenots at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century, a small number of individual Huguenot refugees settled there. They included Francois Villion, later known as Viljoen, and the du Toit brothers. In fact, the first Huguenot to arrive at the Cape of Good Hope was Maria de la Quellerie, the wife of governor Jan van Riebeeck, who started the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 on behalf of the Dutch East India Company; however, she and her husband left for Batavia after ten years. After a commissioner was sent out from the Cape Colony in 1685 to attract more settlers, a more dedicated group of immigrants began to arrive. A larger number of Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
