HISTORICAL DATES

INTERESTING HISTORY DATES FROM THE PAST

29 May 1935  Andre Brink said to have been “one of South Africa’s foremost writers”  died 6 February 2015   He was a member of the Afrikaans literary movement of the 1960s Die Sestigers. He wrote over 60 books, some of…
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INTERESTING HISTORY DATES FROM THE PAST

From author to social worker to poet all who enriched our lives. 2 April 1882 PAULINE SMITH, author. In 1926 she published The Beadle, its setting being the Little Karoo.   Platkops Children a collection of  “childhood stories, verses and sketches”was…
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INTERESTING HISTORY DATES FROM THE PAST    

How different life would be if the public did not have access to the knowledge and writing of authors. The references this month are to authors each viewing life in a different way.              …
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