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Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.
Mrs. Ples is the popular nickname for the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus ever found in South Africa.Many Australopithecus fossils have been found near Sterkfontein, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Johannesburg, in a region of Gauteng (part of the old Transvaal) now designated as the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.
Judith Mason was born in Pretoria; South Africa, in 1938.She matriculated at the Pretoria High School for Girls in 1956. In 1960, she was awarded a BA Degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. [1] She won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, [2] and the ALA's Children's Literature Legacy Award in 1992 for her career ...
He was born on 29 September 1914 in Dundee in Natal, where he grew up.He went to school in the towns of Estcourt and Vryheid, and afterwards received an M.A. degree from the University of Natal.
George Henry Weideman (2 July 1947 – 27 August 2008) was a South African poet and writer.Born in Cradock, Eastern Cape, he grew up between the Karoo of the Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape.
"Come Fly with Me" (1958 song), a popular song written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, and the title track of: Come Fly with Me (Frank Sinatra album), 1958; Come Fly with Me (Michael Bublé album)
The Sestigers (Sixtiers), also known as the Beweging van Sestig [1] [2] ("the movement of the sixties"), were a dissident literary movement of Afrikaans-language poets and writers in South Africa under apartheid.