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20 famous people found
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Ela GANDHI
South African peace activist
1940 -
Marthinus Theunis STEYN
South African lawyer, politician, and statesman, sixth and last president of the independent Orange Free State
1857 - 1916 -
Barry HERTZOG
3rd Prime Minister of South Africa
1866 - 1942 -
Hendrik VERWOERD
7th Prime Minister of South Africa
1901 - 1966 -
Stephanus Jacobus DU TOIT
South African nationalist, theologian, journalist and failed politician
1847 - 1911 -
John VORSTER
4th State President of South Africa
1915 - 1983 -
Marais VILJOEN
Last ceremonial State President of South Africa
1915 - 2007 -
P. W. BOTHA
First executive State President of South Africa
1916 - 2006 -
F. W. DE KLERK
Seventh and last head of state of South Africa under the apartheid era
1936 -
Louis BOTHA
Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa
1862 - 1919 -
Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS
First president of the South African Republic
1819 - 1901 -
Paul KRUGER
State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal)
1825 - 1904 -
Jan Smuts
South African statesman, military leader and philosopher
1870 - 1950 -
Jan F. E. CILLIERS
Afrikaans-language poet, essayist, dramatist and reviewer
1865 - 1940 -
Francis William REITZ
South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet
1844 - 1934 -
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche
Afrikaner nationalist who founded and led the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
1941 - 2010 -
Paul ROOS
One of the first South African Springbok rugby union captains, led the first South African rugby team to tour overseas
1880 - 1948 -
André BRINK
South African novelist
1935 - 2015 -
David BALE
South African-born entrepreneur and an environmentalist animal rights activist
1941 - 2003 -
Ingrid JONKER
South African poet
1933 - 1965