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Sparks, Allister

LC control no.n 85006356
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingSparks, Allister
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Variant(s)Sparks, Allister Haddon
Other standard no.0000000116781452
Birth date1933-03-10
Death date2016-09-19
Place of birthCathcart (South Africa)
Place of deathJohannesburg (South Africa)
AffiliationInstitute for the Advancement of Journalism (South Africa)
Profession or occupationAuthors Journalists Newspaper editors
Found inThe voice of dissent, 1981: t.p. (Allister Haddon Sparks)
The mind of South Africa, c1990: CIP t.p. (Allister Sparks)
SANB correspondence with author, February 20, 1995 (date of birth: March 10, 1933)
The sword and the pen, 2016; title page (Allister Sparks) page 4 of cover (born in 1933 at Cathcart in the Eastern Cape; began work as a reporter in 1951 and rose to become editor of the Rand Daily Mail in 1977; in 1992 founded the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ), dedicated to raising the standards of the profession; lives in Johannesburg)
Wikipedia, viewed September 20, 2016 (Allister Haddon Sparks; born March 10, 1933; died September 19, 2016 in Johannesburg; South African writer, journalist and political commentator)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allister_Sparks>
Equivalent(s)Sparks, Allister, 1933-2016
Associated languageeng