Afrikaner anti-apartheid activists

The list Afrikaner anti-apartheid activists includes Ingrid Jonker, Koos Kombuis, Jan Smuts, Helen Zille and J.M. Coetzee. The list consists of 43 members and 1 sublist.

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Johannes Kerkorrel

South African singer-songwriter

Overview: Johannes Kerkorrel (27 March 1960 – 12 November 2002), born Ralph John Rabie, was a South African singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright.

Date of birth: 27 March 1960

Date of death: 12 November 2002

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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2002 suicides 43T

20th-century South African male writers 82T

20th-century South African singers 59T
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F.W. de Klerk

State President of South Africa

Overview: Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (, 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician, who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to ...

Date of birth: 18 March 1936

Date of death: 11 November 2021

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

Partner: Elita Georgiades (Married)

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2021 deaths 8,552T

20th-century South African politicians 72T

South African members of the Dutch Reformed Church 22T
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Koos Kombuis

South African musician

Overview: Koos Kombuis (born André le Roux du Toit, 5 November 1954) is a South African musician, singer, songwriter and writer who became famous as part of a group of anti-establishment maverick Afrikaans musicians ...

Date of birth: 5 November 1954

Age: 69

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Musician

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Afrikaans-language poets 40T

Alumni of Paul Roos Gymnasium 26T

Musicians from Cape Town 50T
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Ingrid Jonker

South African poet

Overview: Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 – 19 July 1965) (OIS), was a South African poet. While she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages.

Date of birth: 19 September 1933

Date of death: 19 July 1965

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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1965 suicides 33T

Afrikaans-language poets 40T

South African women writers who committed suicide 2T
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Helen Zille

South African politician (born 1951)

Overview: Otta Helene Maree (née Zille ; born 9 March 1951), known as Helen Zille, is a South African politician. She has served as the Chairperson of the Federal Council of the Democratic Alliance since 20 October ...

Date of birth: 9 March 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

Partner: Johann Maree (Married)

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20th-century South African women politicians 23T

Calvinist and Reformed anti-apartheid activists 4T

21st-century South African women politicians 52T
6.

Adolph Malan

British flying ace

Overview: Adolph Gysbert Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (3 October 1910 – 17 September 1963), better known as Sailor Malan, was a South African fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who led ...

Date of birth: 24 March 1910

Date of death: 17 September 1963

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Royal Air Force group captains 33T

Wing leaders 26T

White Left (South Africa) 114T
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Jan Smuts

South African statesman and military leader (1870–1950)

Overview: Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts PC, OM, CH, DTD, ED, KC, FRS (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military leader, and philosopher. In addition to ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1870

Date of death: 11 September 1950

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Presidents of the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science 31T

Chancellors of the University of Cape Town 6T

20th-century South African philosophers 11T
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J.M. Coetzee

South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

Overview: John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Linguist

Gender: Male

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Recipients of the Delmira Agustini Medal 18T

21st-century South African male writers 30T

Vegetarians 377T
9.

Andre Brink

South African writer

Overview: André Philippus Brink, OIS (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.

Date of birth: 29 May 1935

Date of death: 6 February 2015

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

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Afrikaans-language poets 40T

21st-century South African male writers 30T

20th-century South African male writers 82T
10.

Al J Venter

South African journalist and writer (born 1938)

Overview: Al J. Venter (born Albertus Johannes Venter, 25 November 1938) is a South African war journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of more than forty books who also served as an Africa and Middle East ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1938

Age: 85

Occupation: Activist

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Afrikaner Roman Catholics 5T

Roman Catholic anti-apartheid activists 9T

White Left (South Africa) 114T
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Carl Niehaus

South African politician (b. 1959)

Overview: Carl Niehaus (born 25 December 1959) is the former spokesman for South African ruling party the African National Congress, former spokesman for Nelson Mandela, and was a political prisoner after being ...

Date of birth: 25 December 1959

Age: 64

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Ambassadors of South Africa to the Netherlands 3T

Ambassadors of South Africa 30T

African National Congress politicians 324T
12.

Derek Hanekom

South African politician

Overview: Derek Andre Hanekom (born 13 January 1953) is a South African retired politician, activist and former cabinet minister.

Date of birth: 13 January 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Alumni of Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck 17T

21st-century South African politicians 155T

20th-century South African politicians 58T
13.

De Villiers Graaff

South African politician (1913–1999)

Overview: Sir De Villiers Graaff, 2nd Baronet (8 December 1913 – 4 October 1999) (first name De Villiers, surname Graaff) known as Div Graaff, was a South African politician who succeeded his father, Sir David Pieter ...

Date of birth: 8 December 1913

Date of death: 4 October 1999

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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South African Officers of the Order of the British Empire 4T

Politicians from Cape Town 54T

Graaff family 7T
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Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)

Pre-Apartheid South African minister

Overview: Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (20 March 1894 – 3 December 1948) was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding apartheid. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1894

Date of death: 3 December 1948

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Politician

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Chancellors of the University of the Witwatersrand 7T

South African classical scholars 10T

Members of the House of Assembly of South Africa 99T
15.

Breyten Breytenbach

South African writer and painter

Overview: Breyten Breytenbach (born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Afrikaans-language poets 40T

21st-century South African writers 18T

20th-century South African writers 32T
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Pieter-Dirk Uys

South African comedian

Overview: Pieter-Dirk Uys (born 28 September 1945) is a South African performer, author, satirist, and social activist.

Date of birth: 28 September 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Comedian

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International Writing Program alumni 442T

South African drag queens 4T

South African people of German-Jewish descent 26T
17.

Beyers Naudé

South African anti-apartheid activist

Overview: Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (10 May 1915 – 7 September 2004) was a South African cleric, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. He was known simply as Beyers Naudé, or ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1915

Date of death: 7 September 2004

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

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Burials at Westpark Cemetery 8T

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureates 27T

Calvinist and Reformed anti-apartheid activists 4T
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Antjie Krog

South African poet, philosopher, academic, and writer (born 1952)

Overview: Antjie Krog (born 23 October 1952) is a South African poet, academic, and writer. In 2004, she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.

Date of birth: 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Afrikaans-language poets 40T

White Left (South Africa) 114T

South African women poets 47T
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Louis Marius Schoon

anti-apartheid activist

Overview: Louis Marius Schoon (22 June 1937 – 7 February 1999) was a white anti-apartheid activist of Afrikaner descent.

Date of birth: 22 June 1937

Date of death: 7 February 1999

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

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White Left (South Africa) 114T

South African revolutionaries 30T

Prisoners and detainees of South Africa 54T
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Vernon Berrangé

South African activist and lawyer

Overview: Vernon Celliers Berrangé SCOT "Defender of the People" (25 November 1900 – 14 September 1983) was an eminent South African human rights advocate (QC)

Date of birth: 25 November 1900

Date of death: 14 September 1983

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

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White Left (South Africa) 114T

Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo 54T

20th-century lawyers 3,077T