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Jaco Jacobs (born 1980) is a South African children's author who writes in Afrikaans.. Jacobs was born in the South African town of Carnarvon, Northern Cape.He started writing at a young age and sold his first short stories to magazines while still in high school. [1]
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.
Part XIV of the WAT. Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (Dictionary of the Afrikaans Language), generally known as the WAT, is the largest descriptive Afrikaans dictionary.As comprehensive descriptive dictionary, it strives to reflect the Afrikaans language in its entirety.
Coenie de Villiers (Coenraad Grabe de Villiers), born 11 October 1956, is a South African singer-songwriter, pianist, pop artist who sings in his mother tongue, Afrikaans.
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.
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.
Chris Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993), [1] born Martin Thembisile Hani SSA, SBS, CLS, DMG, MMS, was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC).
Kolmanskop (Afrikaans for "Coleman's peak", German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) inland from the port town of Lüderitz.