Basetsana Kumalo

Basetsana Kumalo

female
Basetsana Julia Kumalo (born Basetsana Julia Makgalemele) is a former Miss South Africa and is currently a television presenter and businesswoman....

Anthony Traill

male
Professor Anthony Traill was a linguist (specifically a phonetician), who was the world's foremost authority on a San (more broadly, a Khoisan)...
Louw Wepener

Louw Wepener

male, deceased (1856)
Louw Wepener (d. 1856) was a military leader ("kommandant" in Afrikaans) in the Orange Free State who was killed during the Second Orange Free...

Emma Huismans

female, 62 years old
Emma Huismans is an Afrikaans writer, journalist, and activist born in the Netherlands on July 10, 1947. At the age of five her family moved to...
Rona Rupert

Rona Rupert

female, deceased (1995)
Rona Rupert, née Davel, (7 February 1934 - 25 August 1995) was born in Calvinia, South Africa. Her father was lecturer of Afrikaans and N...

Makhanda

male
Makhanda (d. 1820) (also known as "Nxele" in Xhosa or "Links" in Afrikaans, both words meaning "left-handed") was a Xhosa warrior-prophet. He...
Moloko Temo

Moloko Temo

female, 135 years old
Moloko Temo (claimed birthdate of July 4, 1874) of South Africa is self-proclaimed to be the oldest living person in the world at 133 years of age....
Esta Terblanche

Esta Terblanche

female, 36 years old
Esta TerBlanche is a South African actress of Huguenot descent, best known for her roles on television soap operas in both South Africa and the...
Marcia Brown

Marcia Brown

female, 91 years old
Marcia Joan Brown (born July 13, 1918 in Rochester, New York) is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books....
Edwin de Kock

Edwin de Kock

male, 79 years old
Edwin de Kock (born March 9, 1930), writer and world traveler, was born in South Africa and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. His publications are in...