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- Marjorie Wallace (1925 - 2005)
The Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze for outstanding contributions to the visual artsMarjorie Wallace was born in Edinburgh in 1925, and trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, making such an impression with her early work that she became the youngest person to be elected to the Royal Scottish Academy of Art.In 1953, after an extensive European tour, she was working in Paris when she met and married the writer Jan Rabie, later a leading member of South Africa 's “ Sestigers ”, the young Turks of Afrikaans literature in the 1960s.
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- Father of Sestigers caused Afrikaans upheavalNo Afrikaans writer was quite as revered as Jan Rabie was before his death last month, just one day after turning 81. And for many years few Afrikaans writers were quite as reviled.
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- Dr Z Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture message of condolence on the passing away of GregoireBoonzaier (B 31 July 1909 - D April 22 2005)25 April 2005 My deepest condolences to the family and friends of Gregoire Boonzaier. Boonzaier was born in 1909 at Newlands, Cape Town.
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- John Annandale is a well-known member of the Onrus and Hermanus community, earning wide respect for his involvement in local affairs. As an amateur historian and author, he has done much dedicated work in and around Onrus, researching and documenting the history of the village.
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