Paul Kruger

Paul Kruger

male, deceased (1904)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 - July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as "Oom Paul" (Afrikaans for...
Jan Smuts

Jan Smuts

male, deceased (1950)
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, PC, ED, KC, FRS (May 24, 1870 - September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African and British...
Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

female, 86 years old
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature. Her writing...
Louis Botha

Louis Botha

male, deceased (1919)
Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state. He became a me...
Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog

female, 57 years old
Antjie Krog is a prominent South African poet, academic and writer.
Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach

male, 70 years old
Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. Breyten Breytenbach was born in...
Helen Suzman

Helen Suzman

female, 92 years old
Helen Suzman was born Helen Gavronsky on 7 November, 1917 in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa as the daughter of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. She...
Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron

female, 34 years old (Encino, California, United States)
Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is an Academy Award winning South African actress and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best...
Koos Kombuis

Koos Kombuis

male, 55 years old
Koos Kombuis is a South African musician, singer, songwriter and writer who became famous as part of a group of anti-establishment maverick...
Piet Retief

Piet Retief

male, deceased (1838)
Pieter Retief (usually referred to as Piet Retief), was born about 1780 in the Cape Colony, South Africa, and died 6 February 1838 in what is now...