At first he was looked after mainly by his mother and then, after the age of ten, when his father died, by the regent of the Thembu, one of a dozen Xhosa-speaking groups, who accepted him as a ward.
At the age of 22 he had run away to Johannesburg to escape a marriage arranged for him by his guardian, the Thembu regent.
Along with his wife, Mr Jang was presumed to be the regent following the death of Mr Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, two years ago.The International Atomic Energy Agency praised Japan for its clean-up of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
The other realm, Hungary, was nominally a monarchy but run by a regent (who, absurdly in a land-locked country, was styled admiral).
Practice looked less than perfect when, just two weeks ago, John Hope Franklin, the distinguished black historian who heads Mr Clinton's advisory panel on race, decided not to hear evidence from Ward Connerly, the black University of California regent who led the successful campaign to ban race as a criterion for admission to California's public universities.
A spell for the latter in the premiership (in reality, as Russia's regent) under a fading Mr Yeltsin would give him a chance to shine on the national stage or it could rapidly ruin his reputation.
For the next 47 years she was one of the most powerful women in the world, ruling as the regent to a series of young and ineffectual emperors.
But the figures exclude Asian-Americans, who make up a third of the total intake, and more than 40% of those at BerkeleyWard Connerly, a university regent who wrote the 1996 proposition that ended affirmative action, plans another ballot initiative this year.
Mr Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, has become a clownish regent for her dynasty, dismaying a party that sees itself as Pakistan's most liberal and democratic.
It lists 96 officials with titles such as "governor", "regent" and "co-ordinator", and ties each to a specific area.
His clever scheme combined QE, subprime lending and an emerging markets fund.A new bank was formed, Banque Generale, and the regent decreed that taxes could be paid in notes issued by the bank, effectively making them legal tended.
