Venous insufficiency. Swelling of the ankles and feet is often an early symptom of venous insufficiency, a condition in which blood inadequately moves up the veins from the legs and feet back to the heart. Normally, the veins keep blood flowing in the correct direction with the help of one-way valves.
Studs Terkel. Louis Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 â October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
1 Pierre Terblanche, born in 1956 in Graaff-Reinet, was one of the designers of the Ducati 916. 2  The Ducati 916 is an Italian sports motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1993 to 1999. 3  He also worked on the Ducati 888 and the 916. 4  He has been the director of design at Ducati since 1997. The first Graaff-Reinet citizen to die in the jail at the Castle in Cape Town. 2  Coenraad de Buys (1761â1822) A Boer farmer of the Eastern Cape frontier who rebelled against both the Dutch and English authorities. 3  Nearly 7 ft tall, he is reputed to have been the first white man across the Vaal River.