Search the over 500 male adults listed in the 1928 Krugersdorp Voters List. We found blacksmiths, bus drivers, butchers, carpenters, civil servants, clerks, constables, dental mechanics, fitters, masons, miners, policemen, warders and trolley drivers.

Search our records now. We have given you surnames, first names, addresses as well as occupations to help you find your ancestors. Below is a list of the surnames that can be found in this database.

Ackerman, Adams , Ainsworth, Allsopp, Anderson, Archbold, Arenson, Aronovitz, Aryes,
Ashworth, Assor, Axelson, Badenhorst, Baker, Barendse, Barnard, Bassch, Bateman, Bedford,
Beneke, Bessinger, Bester, Beukes, Bezuidenhout, Black, Blignaut, Bond, Boruchman,
Boshoff, Botes, Botha, Bouwer, Breed, Breytenbach, Brink, Brits, Britz, Broadhurst,
Brockelbank, Brooderyk, Brown, Bruwer, Bullard, Burrell, Busch, Bush, Byleveldt, Callow,
Campher, Campher , Celliers, Centnerowitz, Chambers, Clark, Classens, Coetzee, Coetzee ,
Coetzer, Cohnheim, Collins, Colyn, Combrink, Connock, Cooper, Cowley, Cowling, Coxon,
Craighead, Croft, Cronie, Crowe, Davidson, Davies, De Bruyn, De Klerk, De Lange, De
Villiers, Denysschen, Dodds, Donaldson, Douglas, Du Plessis, Du Plooy, Du Toit, Duggan,
Duminy, Duvenhage, Eddy, Edwards, Edworthy, Els, Emett, Engela, Engelbercht, Erasmus ,
Ernst, Esterhuyzen, Falconer, Farish, Feitelberg, Fenn, Fenton, Ferreira , Fletcher,
Foord, Forster, Fouche, Fourie, Fowler, Francis, Friedman, Furstenburg, Gallichan, Gangel,
Gedye, Gerber, Gerret, Gibson, Goodman, Gouws, Gregor, Greyling, Griffith, Grobler,
Hadden, Hailey, Hale, Halgryn, Hamilton, Harber, Harmse, Harrison, Heard, Hechter, Heelis,
Henderson, Hendrikz, Henning, Herholdt, Heyneke, Hickey, Hinks, Hodgson, Hoffman, Holmes,
Holton, Horrell, Hosking, Hudson, Hulbert, Human, Humphrey, Hunter, Jackson, Jacobs,
James, Janse Van Rensburg, Johnson, Jones, Jonker, Jordaan, Jose, Joubert, Just, Keevy,
Kempen, Kiersch, Killick, Kleynhans, Klopper, Kloppers, Kortsen, Kotler, Kotze, Krawitz,
Kriek, Kruger, La Marque, Labuschagne, Laight, Le Roux, Lessing, Lewis, Lindhout ,
Linford, Lombard, Long, Lotter, Lotz, Loubser, Loudow, Lourens, Ludick, Lundie, Lurie,
Macintyre, Macrae, Main, Maling, Maltz, Manthey, Marais, Marais , Mardon, Maree, Maritz,
Marlowe, Marsberg, Martin, Materface, Mathews, May, Mcalpine, Mcculloch, Mcdonald,
Mcfarlane, Mcguire, Mclean, Mcleay, Melchbeker, Merkel, Mew, Michalow, Millar, Milton,
Milward, Minnaar, Mitchell, Mortimer, Morton, Muburgh, Muhlenbeck, Muir, Muntingh, Murray,
Myburg, Naude, Neill, Nel, Nienaber, Nole, Nosica, Oberholzer, Oelofse, Ogilvie, Olivier,
Oosthuizen, Opperman, Osborn, Otto, Page, Parkes, Peach, Penn, Phillips, Phillipson,
Pitts, Player, Ponton, Potgieter, Pretorius, Price, Prinsloo, Quick, Raftopulos,
Redelinghuys, Reed, Reid, Reinecke, Resnick, Rheeders, Ridley, Robb, Robertson, Robinson,
Robson, Rohland, Roos, Ross, Rousseau, Roux, Rudolph, Sablick, Sans, Schilbach, Schmidt,
Schoeman, Schutte, Scott, Serel, Sewitz, Shackelton, Shenker, Short, Skinner, Smith,
Smuts, Spence, Spilsbury, Stappard, Steel, Steffens, Stephen, Stewart, Steyn, Stone,
Strydom, Strydon, Sullivan, Swanepoel, Swart, Tait, Taljaard, Taylor, Teasdale,
Theunissen, Theys, Thomas, Thompson, Thrope, Todd, Treisman, Trimble, Van Blerk, Van
Bosch, Van Bouillon, Van Coppenhagen, Van Den Berg, Van Den Heever, Van Der Berg, Van Der
Hoff, Van Der Hoven, Van Der Linde, Van Der Merwe, Van Der Walt, Van Dyk, Van Goeverden,
Van Greunen, Van Heerden, Van Niekerk, Van Rhyn, Van Rooyen, Van Ryneveld, Van Wyk, Van
Wyngaarden, Vavasour, Venter, Verster, Viljoen, Visser, Viviers, Vorster, Vos, Waite,
Walden, Wallace, Wallach, Walls, Webb, Weeks, Welsh, Wessels, Whear, Wheeler, Whitesides,
Wienand, Willcox, Willemse, Williams, Williamson, Wills, Wimbles, Winder, Wright, Yates,
Zentkowsky.

Search this wonderful list of over 500 Voters from the 1928 who resided in the Klerksdorp area. This database provides full names, addresses and occupations of voters who qualified to vote.

From bank clerks, boere, miners, teachers, railway officials and speculators, we have them here. Below is a list of surnames that can be found in this database.

Ackerman, Ackermann, Alant, Annandale, Aspeling, Badenhorst, Beckley, Beetge, Benadie,
Bergman, Beukus, Bezuidenhourt, Bezuidenhout, Blom, Blomkamp, Bloom, Boltman, Bolton,
Bond, Boshoff, Bosman, Botha, Bothma, Braude, Breedt, Brink, Brits, Broderyk, Bronkhorst,
Brown, Bruckmann, Buissine, Burger, Burns, Buys, Cameron, Cawood, Celliers, Chambers,
Christian, Claase, Clemitson, Clinton, Coetzee, Cohen, Colyn, Combrinck, Cooks, Cordier,
Cowan, Cox, Davidtz, De Beer, De Bruyn, De Klerk, De Kock, De Koker, De Korte, De Wet,
Deane, Delaport, Delport, Dix, Dove, Dreyer, Driver, Du Bruin, Du Plessis, Du Plooy, Du
Preez, Du Toit, Dyason, Elliott, Ellison, Els, Engelbrecht, Erasmus, Ernst, Esterhuizen,
Evain, Evans, Favard, Fenwick, Ferreira, Fourie, Freeman, Fullard, Gericke, Gordon,
Gravell, Greef, Greyling, Griesel, Grobbelaar, Grobler, Groenewald, Halgryn, Halkerston,
Haman, Hamilton, Harmzen, Hart, Havenga, Haywood-May, Heenop, Herberden, Hern, Hesketh,
Hills, Hockey, Hoffland, Holland, Horan, Horwitz, Hunter, Jacobs, Janneke, Janse, Janse
Van Rensburg, Jansen, Johnson, Jonker, Jooste, Jordaan, Joubert, Jowell, Kaminer, Kieser,
Klue, Knight, Koen, Kotze, Kotzee, Kriel, Kropman, Kruger, Kuhn, Labuschagne, Laffens,
Lambard, Le George, Le Grange, Le Roux, Lemmer, Levin, Levy, Lewis, Liebenberg, Lindeque,
Lodewyek, Loggenberg, Lombaard, Lombard, Loubser, Lourens, Louw, Lubbe, Lucas, Ludick,
Maartens, Maartins, Macklin, Malan, Marais, Maree, Marx, Matthews, Mcdonald, Meeding,
Meintjes, Mendelsohn, Meyer, Moir, Morris, Morrison, Myburg, Myburgh, Nagel, Nel, Neser,
Nicoll, Nienaber, Nieuwenhuis, Nightingale, Nortje, O’reilly, Oberholzer, Olivier,
Oosthuizen, Opperman, Page, Palm, Panley, Parkhill, Paterson, Pawson, Peacock, Penn,
Phaal, Plant, Potgieter, Pretorius, Prinsloo, Prynne, Randall, Reneke, Revill, Reyneke,
Richardson, Roach, Robinson, Roesch, Roodt, Roos, Rootman, Rossouw, Rousseau, Roux, Rowe,
Ryce, Saaiman, Schaiowitz, Schapow, Schoeman, Seyffert, Shapcote, Sharpley, Shaw, Shearer,
Simpson, Smit, Smith, Smook, Snyders, Solomon, Staddon, Stapelberg, Starfield, Starr,
Steel, Steinberg, Sterley, Stevn, Stewart, Steyn, Stiles, Stopforth, Storm, Strauss,
Strydom, Surname, Swan, Swanepoel, Swart, Taylor, Teichert, Templeman, Terblanche, Tolmay,
Usher, Van Der Heever, Van Der Linde, Van Der Lith, Van Der Merwe, Van Der Schyff, Van Der
Walt, Van Der Watt, Van Der Westhuizen, Van Deventer, Van Gruene, Van Heerden, Van
Lelyveld, Van Logenberg, Van Loggenberg, Van Niekerk, Van Nispen, Van Rensburg, Van
Rooyen, Van Schalkwyk, Van Sittert, Van Staden, Van Vuuren, Van Wyk, Van Zyl, Vardy,
Venter, Vercueil, Vermeulen, Vice, Viljoen, Visagie, Visser, Viviers, Vorster, Vos,
Vosloo, Wallace, Want, Warmenhoven, Wilken, Wilkens, Willcocks, Williams, Willis, Wilsen,
Wilson, Woite, Wolfaardt, Wolmarans, Wrightson, Zaayman, Zwarts,

Over 200 individuals can be searched for in the St. Saviours Claremont Burials.  Details provided are: surname, first names, maiden name, title, gender, date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death and notes.

We found the following surnames in this cemetery:

Amcoats, Anderson, Andrews, Anxe, Arnold, Atkins, Bain, Bedggood, Bell, Biesman-Simons, Birt, Bisset, Blake, Bluett, Bourne, Brice, Bridges, Briel, Brown, Budge, Burnell, Carey, Carson, Cass, Castley, Catonby, Cooke, Cornhill, Cowling, Crosse-Jones, Daniell, Davis, Dawson, De Klerk, de Villiers, Den, Evans, Evens, Falkiner, Falkiner-Falkiner, Fawcett, Finch, Fox, Frylinck, Galbraith, Goulding, Gow, Hamer, Hill, Hilliard, Hodgkiss, Hopkins, Hudson, Impey, Inglesby, Jacobs, Jeffcoat, Johnson, Jones, Laatz, Lakey, Lamb, Lavis, Le Mesurier, Lewis, Longmore, Maas, Manson, Marchbank, Mc Kerron, Mc Kinley, McFarlane, McLachlan, Millar, Montague, Morel, Murray, Musgrave, Nash, Neville, Nolan, Ovenstone, Pettitt, Philip, Puddicombe, Raven, Reid, Richter, Rickman, Robb, Robottom, Rogers, Rous, Selkirk, Sheard, Simpkin, Simpson, Sitters, Sloane, Snell, Stanley, Stevenson, Stuart-William, Surname, Swales, Swartz, Tayler, Taylor, Van Der Byl, Walker, Wallace, Wallis, Warren, Webster, White, Whiteing, Williams, Willis, Wilson, Wobbe, Wright, Zeeman,

Search this database of over 200 baptisms for  the Stutterheim Presbyterian Church. Information available is surnames, first names, date of baptism, date of birth, place of birth, gender, mother and fathers names, location of parents, ministers name and notes.

Below is a list of surnames in the database:

Acton, Baisley, Bartlett, Bassett, Beaton, Bennet, Boucher, Bouwer, Bowman, Brandt, Brown, Burmeister, Cawthorn, Coetzer, Cope, Cory, Cuxler, Dicks, Duncan, Edwards, Engelbrecht, Fielding, Flanegan, Forward, Foxcroft, Futter, Geyer, Graig, Graigie, Greig, Grobelar, Groblar, Grobler, Grunow, Hartley, Hayes, Hayter, Hobden, Horn, Hutchinson, Iveson, Lupke, Mac Kenzie, Maclachlan, Mc Kenzie, Mcneill, Menzies, Meyer, Michall, Miles, Mundell, Murray, Nicholas, Nicolaysen, Nicolayson, Nilsson, Norman, Ollis, Oosthuizen, Philip, Pieschke, Pike, Prophet, Robinson, Rusch, Schultz, Smith, Stewart, Surname, Thompson, Unknown, Usher, Van Heerden, Van Rooyen, Wakeford, Walker, Watson, Wattrus, Webb, Wheeler, Wilson,

We have added 2,624 new names  from the 1833 Cape Almanac to our database. Find out who was a wigmaker, a mangler, a wagon hirer or even a pickler!  A list of principal inhabitants of Cape Town. This database includes: Title, Surname, First Names or Initials, occupation and address.

Is your surname listed in this over 1400 variety of names?

Abdol, Abdolbachie, Abdolbasier, Abdoldrachmer, Abdolgaries, Abdoljakie, Abdolkiep, Abdolmalek, Abdolmansuer, Abdolsamar, Abdolsoeker, Abdolsubboer, Abdolsummat, Abdolwakil, Abdolwashet, Abraham, Abrahams, Abrahamse, Ackerman, Ada, Adams, Adamse, Adamson, Adriaanse, Adrian, Adrianse, Agom, Aitchinson, Albertus, Albertyn, Aldred, Alexander, Aling, Alldridge, Alleman, Allen, America, Amm, Amos, Anderson, Andreas, Andresa, Anhuizer, Anosi, Ansdell, Anthon, Anthony, Antje, Appel, April, Arendsz, Armstrong, Arnold, Arrowsmith, Aschen, Ashley, Aspeling, Attwell, Auret, Aurnhamer, Baard, Badroon, Bailey, Baker, Baks, Balston, Bam, Bamberger, Bance, Bantham, Barber, Barbier, Barend, Barendz, Barker, Barks, Baron, Barris, Barry, Bartels, Bartholomew, Bartie , Bartman, Bathie, Batist, Batt, Beaufort, Beck, Becker, Beeker, Begley, Behr, Beil, Bell, Belta, Ben, Bendall, Benecke, Benoy, Bergh, Bergstedt, Bernhardi, Berning, Berrange, Bestandig, Betje, Better, Beuchling, Beyleveld, Bickersteth, Biel, Billingsley, Birch, Bird, Black, Blair, Blake, Blanckenberg, Blarence, Bletterman, Blignaut, Bloem, Blore, Boltman, Boniface, Booysen, Borcherds, Boreherds, Borgstrom, Borgwetel, Borradailes, Bosch, Bosman, Boss, Bosse, Bosselman, Bossman, Botha, Bottrill, Boucher, Bowles, Boys, Brady, Brand, Brandman, Brandt, Brasler, Brath, Bray, Breedevelt, Breeze, Bren, Bresler, Brett, Breugeman, Brevers, Bridekirk, Briers, Brill, Brink, Brink , Bron, Broodrick, Brook, Bropie, Brown, Bruary, Brumfield, Brunet, Brusman, Bruyns, Bryant, Buchanan, Buck, Buckley, Buckton, Budge, Buissinne, Buitendag, Burgess, Burton, Butgut, Buyskes, Byrne, Bösenberg, Cadogan, Caesar, Cairncross, Caldecott, Calf, Callander, Cambier, Cameron, Camyn, Candasa, Cannon, Cannon , Canterbury, Capon, Carfrae, Carnell, Carolus, Carsten, Carstens, Carter, Cassel, Castien, Caton, Catorzia, Cats, Catz, Cauvin, Celliers, Cerf, Cessar, Chandler, Chapman, Chapple , Chase, Chiappini, Chisolm, Christiaan, Christiaansen, Christian, Christie, Christina, Church, Claasen, Clarence, Claresse, Clark, Clarke, Clayton, Cleenwerk, Clement, Cloete, Cloete  , Cobern, Coenraadie, Coensen, Coetze, Coffin, Coleman, Colident, Collard, Collins, Collison, Comarmond, Combrink, Comfield, Compton, Connor, Constable, Cook, Cooke, Cooper, Coops, Corbitt, Corder, Corless, Cornelissen, Cornellis, Correll, Courlois, Courtney, Cousins, Cowell, Craaywinkel, Creed, Criese, Croeser, Cromhout, Croucher, Crozier, Cruywagen, Cullen, Curlewis, Dacosta, Damedor, Damense, Dames, Damon, Daneel, Danford, Daniel, Daniels , Danielse, Dantu , David, Davids, Davidse , Davis, Dawell , Day , de Beer, de Geest, de Greef, de Haan, de Jongh, de Kock, de Kock , de Korte, De la Hunt, de Lettre, de Lima, de Lorentz , De Moldrup, de Ronde, de Roos, de Roubaix, De Ruiter, de Smidt, De Smidt , de Ville, de Villiers, de Villiers , de Vos, de Vos , de Vries, De Vrye, de Waal, de Waal , de Wed , De Wet, De Wet , de Wit, de Wit , Deane , Dedear , Dekenah, Delhant , Delorme , Demfords , Demolen , Dempers, Denessau, Deneys, Deneys , Denison, der Goede, Dert , Destro , Desvages , Dickinson, Dickson, Dickson , Diddleston , Dieleman , Dievendal , Dill, Dillman , Dinness, Disandt , Dixie , Dixon , Dobie ,
Dodd, Dolley, Donough , Doortje, Dormehl , Doyle, Drake, Dray , Drege , Dreyer, Dreyer , Drury, du Plessie, Du Plessis, Du Toit, Dungey, Durham, During, Dusing, Dyason, Dyce, Eagar, Eaton, Ebden, Eckhard, Eckhout, Ecklet, Eckley, Edwards, Eerenberg, Ekermans, Eksteen, Eli, Ellen, Elliott, Elsing, Elsmlie, Elster, Ely, Emmet, Engelbrecht, Enslin, Enstin, Erith, Ernstzen, Eskteen, Esther, Eston, Euvrard, Eva, Everest, Fabe, Fairbairn, Fairbridge, Fairelough, Falkenburg, Faulkner, Faure, Faustman, Fawing, Feitje, Felix, Fell, Ferreira, Fichat, Fick, Fischer, Fison, Fitzpatrick, Flamme, Flandorffer, Fleck, Fletterman, Flint, Fock, Focks, Foelscher, Foes, Foley, Forbes, Ford, Ford  , Fortner, Fowler, Fox, Fraenkel, Frances, Frazer, Friesberg, Frieslar, Frieslich, Frith, Frizlar, Frylinck, Gaban , Gabriels, Gadaidine , Gadney, Gamelidien , Garish, Garoutte, Garratt, Gaum, Gay, Geduld, Geering, Gehazi , Genade, Genau, George, Georgeon, Gerber, Gerdain, Gerkes, Germans, Gertenbach, Getsen, Geyer, Ghertse , Gibherd , Gideon , Gie , Gildenhuis, Gildenhuizen , Gildenzaph, Gilloway, Gilloway , Gilmer , Gilwyn , Gingham , Godfred , Goemoes , Goetz, Golding , Goodrich, Goodwin, Gopel, Goschen, Goslett , Goss , Gough, Gouland, Graves, Gray, Grebe , Gregan , Gregory , Greig , Griffiths ,
Grimers, Grimes , Grindley, Groenewald, Groenwald , Grondlier , Grosch , Grove, Groves , Grybe, Guest, Gun , Gunn, Hablutzel , Hall, Hallier , Halwayday , Hamman, Hammans , Hammes, Hammes , Hanbury, Hancke, Hancke , Hannam, Hannas, Hansen, Hansen , Hanslo , Hardie , Hare, Harley ,Harms, Harper, Harris, Harris , Hart , Hartel, Hartman, Hartog, Hartslief , Haslam, Haubtfleisch, Haupt, Havery, Hawkins, Hawkins , Haylet , Haylett, Haynes , Hayward , Heatlie, Heckrath , Heckroodt, Heeger, Heegers, Heideman, Heinenberg, Heinrich, Heintjes, Heldzyngen, Hellett, Helston, Helstrom, Henan, Henderson, Hendricksen, Hendrikse, Hendriksen, Henly,Herbert , Herbold, Herbst, Herholdt, Herman, Herold, Herrer, Herring, Hertzog, Herwig, Hes,
Hess, Hesselmeyer, Heugh, Heuning, Heurtley, Heuser, Hewitt, Heydenrych, Heydenryk, Heyer, Heyneke, Heyneman, Heyns, Heyward, Hiddingh, Hiebner, Higgins, Himel, Hind, Hirchenheim, Hitchcock, Hitzeroth, Hobley, Hoek, Hoets, Hoffman, Hoffmeyr, Hofmeyr, Hogsflesh, Hohne, Hollen, Holloway, Holm, Holtman, Home, Hopkins, Horak, Horn, Horn , Horne, Hough, Hovil, Hudd, Hudson, Hughes, Hugo, Humphreys, Hunt, Hunter, Hurlingh, Hurter, Huskisson, Hutchons , Hutton, Immelman, Ingles, Inglesby, Ingram, Ingram , Innes, Isaac, Isaak, Isaakse, Isles, Israel, Itzemplitz, Jackson, Jacobs, Jacobse, Jacobsz, Jameila, Jamies, Janaldine, Janetjie, Janio, Jansen, Janson, Jansten, Jantzee, Japie, Jardine, Jarvis, Jeary, Jensen, Jeptha, Jeptha , Jessup, John, Johnson, Jonas, Jones, Jones , Jones  , Jonker, Jordaan, Josie, Josse, Joubert,
Judge, Junera, Jurgens, Juritz, Jury, Kanneymeyr, Karl, Karstel, Kay, Kealams, Keet, Keeve, Keiser, Kekewich, Kelber, Kelderman, Kelly, Kemp, Kennedy, Kerdel , Kerkes, Kerning, Ketter, Keuber, Keuler, Kiener, Kift, Kilgour, Killian, Kincaid, King, Kinnburg, Kintzle, Kippey,Kirsten, Klasing, Klerck, Kleyn, Klinck, Kloppers, Klyn, Klynsmit, Knaut, Knoble, Knoll, Knoop,Knott, Knox, Knype, Koch, Kock, Koetze, Koetzer, Koevoet, Kohl, Kohler, Kolbe, Kolber, Koning,Korsten, Korster, Kotze, Kraanstein, Kraayveld, Kraft, Kriel, Krige, Krimmel, Krynaauw, Kuuhl, Kuys, Laageraadts, Laangenaught, Laar, Lacable, Laidlaw, Laing, Lakock, Lamb, Lambert,
Lamberts, Lambrechts, Lambress, Landsberg, Langeveld, Lary, Lategan, Laubscher, Laurence, Lawson, Lawton, Le Breton, Le Breton , Le Bron, Le Brun, Le Clues, Le Roes, Le Roux, Le Sueur ,Lea, Leatt, Lee , Leeb , Leen, Leentje, Leep, Leeuwendaal, Leeuwendal, Leeuwner, Lehman, Leibbrandt, Leonard, Leriche, Lesar, Less, Letterstedt, Levick, Lewee, Ley, Lichtwark, Liebbrandt, Liesching, Liesmont, Lieven, Lillis, Linage, Lind, Lindebaum, Lindeman, Lindenberg, Lingeveld, Lingevelder, Lining, Lisenburg, Lochner, Locke, Lodewyk, Loedolff, Logie, Logier, Lombard, Lond, Londt, Long, Loos, Losco, Lotter, Lotz, Louis, Louisa, Lourens, Louw, Lowrie, Lowry, Luchthoff, Lukas, Luttig, Luyt, Maaneveld, Maas, Maasdorp, Mabille,
Macarthy, MacGregor, Mackenzie, Mackrill, Madeleen , Mader, Magistraat, Malan, Maletto, Mallett, Manche, Manuel, Mappe, Marais, Marchand, Marcous, Marcus, Maria, Marlow, Marnitz, Marquard, Marrant, Marrison, Marsh, Marshall, Martin, Martinas, Martinson, Maskew, Mathysen, Matthews, Matthiessen, Matthysen, Maude, Maynard, McCLeod, McComb, McDonald, McDougal, MCFarlan, McKinnon, McLachlan, Meall, Mechau, Meeser, Meiring, Mellet, Mellings, Mellish, Mende, Mentor, Menzies, Merrington, Mertens, Metz, Metzeler, Meyer, Michell , Middlekop, Middleton, Miller, Mills, Minnaar, Mitchell, Mocke, Mohr, Mol, Molesworth, Moller, Moltby, Momsen, Monk, Moore, Morell, Morgan, Morgendaal, Morison, Mory, Moses, Mosterd, Mostert,
Mulder, Muller, Mulles, Munnik, Muntingh, Murphy, Murray, Mustapha, Muter, Myburg, Myburgh, Nauhoff, Neave, Nee er, Neederland, Neethling, Nelson, Neyhof, Nibs, Nicholl, Niehaus, Niewoudt, Nisbet, Noble, Nolden, Norman, Nyhoff, Nymans, O’Flinn, O’Lachlan, O’Neil, Ockert, Oestheyden, Okes, Oldham, Oliphant, Oliver, Olthoff, Onverwacht, Oostendurp, Oppel, Oprimo, Ord, Orlandine, Orri, Osler, Osmond, Ost, Overbeek, Paine, Pallass, Pannerwit, Papow, Pappe, Parker, Pears, Peebles , Pentz, Pero, Perryn, Peters, Petersen, Peterson, Petrie, Pettison, Pfester, Phanp, Pheasant, Pheifer, Phelps , Phider, Philip, Phillips, Pietersen, Pillans, Piton, Plessie, Plessie , Plouvier, Plouvier , Poel, Poelse , Polena, Poolman, Poop, Poph, Poulteney, Poupart, Powell, Powell , Powells, Powelse, Powrie, Pozende, Pozin, Preller, Prestwich, Price, Prichard, Prince, Prins, Prubart, Pruce , Puckey, Purvis, Quin, Rabe, Railston, Randall, Raphael, Ras, Rauch, Raven, Redelinghuys, Redwood, Reenen Van, Reeves, Regeel, Regen, Regnar, Reid, Reid , Reis, Rekeba, Rens, Retief, Richert, Richter, Rimrod, Rippel, Rishton, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rode, Roelandt, Roesch, Rogerson, Ronquest, Roodt, Roos, Rorich, Rosa, Rose, Roselt, Roset, Ross, Rossouw, Roubaix, Rousseau, Roux, Rowan, Rowles, Rusch, Russel, Russouw, Rutgers, Rutherfoord, Ruthven, Ruysch, Rykheer, Rynbach,
Rynhard, Rynhout, Rynke, Saartjie , Saban , Sacreas, Sala, Salomonsen, Samaay, Sampsodien , Sandenberg, Sandford, Saunders, Savaars, Savary, Sayus, Scevers, Schaal, Schabord, Schaeble,
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Benjamin Osler also known as Bennie born in Aliwal North on 23rd November 1901 and died in Cape Town on 23rd April 1962, Springbok rugby player, was the son of Benjamin and Isobel Osler. Bennie’s ancestors have been traced back to Edward Osler, a prominent merchant and ship-owner, with a hint of piracy involvement.Bennie went to various schools, including the Western Province Preparatory School, Rondebosch Boys’ High School, and Kingswood College, Grahamstown. From 1921 he read law at the University of Cape Town, qualifying in 1925. During this period he represented the University on the rugby field, but from 1926 to 1930 played for Hamiltons and from 1931 to 1933 for Villagers. He acted as captain of all three clubs and on various occasions captained Western Province, which he represented from 1922 to 1933.

He gained his Springbok colours in 1924, when he played against Ronald Cove-Smith’s British team in all four test matches. Four years later (1928) he also played in all four tests against Maurice Brownlee’s New Zealand touring side, and in 1931-32 captained the Springbok team (which went to the British Isles) in all the tests of that series. He rounded off his rugby career in 1933 by playing in all five tests against the visiting Australians, acting as captain in the second test. He had scored forty-six points in the seventeen consecutive tests in which he played Osler is generally regarded as the best fly-half South Africa has produced so far (1979), a man who could dictate play. The decade during which he was a Springbok is even called the ‘Osler Era’ by sports writers, owing to his influence on the game. While he played for South Africa the country won all the test series, his province carried off the Currie Cup throughout, and each club for which he played won the Grand Challenge Cup. He had no equal as a tactical kicker and it was in particular his almost perfectly-placed corner kicks to wings which gained many tries for the Springboks. He could launch long outside kicks from any corner and as a drop-kicker he often clinched matches. Nobody was more feared by opponents than Osler.

He was also an attacking fly-half who could send his full-backs off with incredible speed when circumstances permitted or, if not, could himself shoot through an opening like lightning. Autocratic on the field, he would tolerate no passes from scrumhalfs that were above waist height; if the centres next to him blundered even once, he usually mistrusted them afterwards and would rather kick the ball – a course of action which can be regarded as one of his few weaknesses. As a captain he attached great value to tactical planning before a match, and he believed in strict team discipline.

During the Second World War (1939-45) Bennie went with the South African forces to East Africa where he contracted both malaria and amoebic dysentery which probably contributed to his relatively early death.

Unlike other great players Osler had little interest in coaching or the administration of the sport when he retired. After working as a salesman for a long time, he eventually went farming on a small scale, at first near East London and later near Bellville.

The brothers Bennie and Stanley Osler

He married Gladys Hobson and had two children. Photographs of him appear inter alia in The Bennie Osler story and Springbok saga (both infra).

Osler’s Cornish Connections

Benjamin. Falmouth born circa 1776 son of Edward and Mary (Paddy) Osler of Falmouth and husband of Jane (Sawle) Osler born 1775. father of Susannah, Stephen Sawle, Mary Anne, Amelia, Elizabeth, Sarah, Joseph, Jane, Benjamin, Phillippa and Julia. Leader of W.J. Cornish 1820 Settlers. Returned to Cornwall with wife and some members of his family 4.1822.

Stephen Sawle born in Falmouth 27th September 1804, died 21st October 1867 in Simonstown. Son of Benjamin and Jane (Sawle) Osler and husband of Catherine Osler (born Dakins, formerly Wright) of Llaway Glen, Montgomeryshire, Wales. 1802-1881. father to Benjamin, James Goodriche, Catherine and Jane; and also Christina, dtr of Orange Kleyne (Klein). Founder of the Osler family in SA.

Susannah Osler born in Falmouth circa 1800. daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Sawle) Osler married 1st John Coleman (1792-1829) of Cock’s party at Reedfountain, Eastern Cape on 17th June 1820, 2nd time to Mr Fineran from Quebec.

The small Cornish party, under the leadership of Benjamin Osler of Falmouth, Cornwall, sailed in the ‘Weymouth’, which left Portsmouth in January 1820. Having arrived in Albany so that he might supervise the first arrivals, Sir Rufane Donkin considered that a more central and accessible site should be chosen for the administration of the settlement. Ignoring the fact of Graham’s Town’s better defensible position and that it was already established as a military base, the site he chose on 9 May 1820, was just west of Thorn Ridge. This was to be the centre of the civilian administration and also the seat of magistracy. Sir Rufane declared it was to supercede Graham’s Town as the capital town of Albany, and it was to be named Bathurst in honour of Earl Bathurst, Secretary for the Colonies. In his enthusiasm Donkin allotted plots to the Earl and also his own sons and nephews, while 500 acres of Glebe were allotted for a clergyman and chaplain of the Church of England, the vacant post to be filled in due course by a suitable man. The post of administrator, however, was filled by the transfer to Albany from the Western Cape of Capt Charles Trappes.

By 9 June the Cornish party of Benjamin Osler was enroute to their location from Algoa Bay. Osler’s party, it had been decided, was to be located some 12 miles southwest of the new town of Bathurst, and halfway to the Kowie River mouth. This was in the curve of the Mansfield River, a left bank tributary to Kowie River, today known as Grove Hill. Osler named the location Pendennis in memory of the similarity the area bore to his Cornish hometown of Falmouth and its Pendennis Castle.

Pitching their tents for protection from the cold winter nights and the intermittent drizzle, the party immediately set to clearing the land so that ploughing and sowing of their first crop could be done. Soon after arrival, they were to be joined by a young man, John Coleman, 28 years of age and a gardener from Cock’s party who had sailed with them in the Weymouth. Coleman was not altogether an unexpected arrival, for he had made his intentions clear earlier and on the 17 June, he was married by the Rev William Shaw to Benjamin Osler’s eldest daughter, Susannah. Theirs were the first marriage in the whole settlement.

The proximity to Bathurst of Osler’s location at Pendennis meant that these settlers were closely concerned with the early development of that town. Lots were already being offered for sale and the Colonial Secretary had ordered erection of a prison. The building of the Bathurst Residency got under way by October. All this activity afforded employment to bricklayers, carpenters, slaters, sawyers and stone-masons, who were able to direct their energies into a rewarding field while they waited patiently for the crops to ripen. Hopes for the future were bright, but by the end of November it became apparent that ‘rust’ had affected practically all the wheat sown since their arrival and the crops were useless. With little resources to withstand such a disaster, the administration decided that the issue of rations was therefore to be continued, but they became an additional charge against the deposit money. When that had been exhausted, it was a liability for future repayment. By Christmas Day that year, the circumstances of many were desperate and prospects for the future grim.

Undaunted by these hardships and their considerably reduced circumstances, the settlers sought what work they could find. The Bathurst Residency, long delayed in its completion by the number of unfortunate disputes that had arisen, was still an avenue for employment. William Mallett, a mason with Osler’s party joined with Thomas Marham of Bethany, James’ party’s location, and together they contracted on 5 November 1821, for slating and plastering work on the Residency to the value of £16. 10. 0d.

Lots had continued to be sold at Bathurst and houses built on them, but again, as a year earlier, ‘rust’ began to appear in the wheat and by the end of the year it was apparent to all that the wheat crop had once again failed. This was now a major calamity. Though rations were continued, they were reduced to half portions. Despite what the settlers had previously received, and even for those in dire need who had no money or hope of ever redeeming what they already owed, a parsiminous administration ruled they were only to get half a pound of rice per adult per week. Meagre indeed, but to ameliorate their difficulties, the stringent pass laws restricting settlers to their locations were relaxed and many now went in search of work, not only in Albany, but further afield if they could afford to get themselves there.

Lord Charles Somerset had by now returned to the Cape from his bride hunting furlough in England, and once again took up the reins of office as Governor.

He was furious to find the number of rather illogical decisions taken by Sir Rufane were actually detrimental to the scheme as he had originally envisaged it. He thus immediately set about reversing them. Bathurst was demoted from its pre-eminent position, which consequently caused another sharp depression when the Magistracy was summarily removed to Graham’s Town and the many settlers who had invested their small capital in establishing business premises in order that they might better serve the community, now faced ruin and impoverishment as it was quite evident the town of Bathurst would stagnate. It did and many then returned their attention to trading. Fairs were permitted at Fort Willshire and to these came the native tribesmen from beyond the Colony’s borders. James Weeks was one of the Cornish settlers who took to offering the more conventional manufactures. He and others traded tobacco and cloth in exchange for hides and skins, ivory, cut wood and simple items of use that could either be sold again in Graham’s Town or taken down to Algoa Bay and bartered there for the farming implements in such short supply. But the air of depression continued, it was no good having the basis for an exchange of goods if the majority the inhabitants, both settler and tribesmen, were so impoverished that goods and hard cash were virtually an unknown commodity amongst them. Osler left his location in April 1822 to return with his wife and five younger children to Cornwall. What remained of Osler’s party slowly broke up. Headed by John Dale, it began to disintegrate further. Osler’s daughter, Susannah and her husband decided to make their home at Simonstown where they were to be joined by her brother, Stephen Sawle Osler, who had elected not to return to Cornwall. By the beginning of 1824 William Mallett had moved away to Uitenhage and matrimony was to call Joseph Richards to a date in Graham’s Town where on 23 September that year, he was married to Sarah Attwell, the seventeen year old daughter of Richard Attwell of Crause’s party. Grace Weeks had died and the end of the year saw Charles Pearse returning to England to rejoin his wife with and family who had been unable to embark with him.

The small party of Cornish settlers, comprising only eleven men and their families at the outset, was already diminished in number by nearly half, and the few that did remain on Pendennis were to become so insignificant numerically that from then on their story melds with that of the settlement itself, conversely reflecting their great adaptability and absorption into the new country.

Source:
Dictionary of South Africa Biography Vol 5.
Cornish Immigrants to South Africa by Graham Dickason.
History of South African Rugby Football (1875 – 1932) by Ivor Difford

Further reading and resources:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bathonia/OslerBathFrancisConnections.htm

Osler Library – http://www.mcgill.ca/osler-library/

Acknowledgements: Michael Bath

Rev. Tiyo Soga, the first of the African race in South Africa to become an ordained minister of the Gospel, was born in 1829, at Gwali, a station of the Glasgow Missionary Society in the Chumie Valley, Cape Province.
His father was one of the chief councillors of Gaika. A polygamist and husband of eight wives and a father of thirty-nine children, and personally a remarkable man. Tiyo’s mother was the principle wife of Soga, and Tiyo was her seventh child. Soga was killed in the war of 1878. His wife became a Christian, and young Tiyo began to attend school in the village, taught by his elder brother Festire. From the village school he was sent to Mr.. William Chalmers who discovered that Tiyo was a bright boy.

In 1844 the United Presbyterian Mission sent him to Lovedale. At Lovedale he slowly but surely crept to the head of all his classes. About 1846 he went to Scotland with Mr. Govan, and continued his studies at Inchinnan, and afterwards at the Glasgow Free Church Normal Seminary. He returned to Africa with the Rev. George Brown. Became an evangelist at Keiskama and at Amatole,. and later returned to Scotland with Mr. Niven about 1850. He entered the Glasgow University in 1851, and in 1852 he began to attend the Theological Hall of the United Presbyterian Church at Edinburgh. He completed his course in 1856, and on leaving, his, fellow-students presented him with a valuable testimonial in books, as a mark of universal respect and esteem. Having passed the final examinations, he was licensed at the end of that year by the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow to preach the Gospel. The following year he married Miss Janet Burnside in Glasgow.

This lady stood faithfully by her hunband’s side through all the difficulties of his life. The late Rev. Tiyo Soga was the father otf four sons and three daughters. His sons are well known in South Africa. They are Dr. John William Soga, M.D., C.M., Glasgow University, and Mr. Allen Soga, also at Glasgow University, who at one time acted as Assistant Magistrate at St. Marks. The Youngest son, Mr. J. F. Soga, is a M.R.C.V.S. of Dick College, Edinburgh. Tiyo Soga’s eldest daughter died in 1880. The second is engaged in mission work in the Cape Province. The youngest is a music teacher in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Rev. Tiyo Soga returned to South Africa in the year 1857 and proceeded to Peelton, in the district of Kingwilliamstown, a station of the London Missionary Society. Later he moved to Emgwali, where, along with the Rev. R. Johnson, who had been a class-fellow in Edinburgh, he set about reorganising the good work that was broken by the wars of the previous years. Rev. Soga succeeded in converting a very large number of his countrymen. Then came the task of building a church. To do this he visited a number of larger towns to collect funds. He had already preached to many European congregations with great acceptance. In 1860 lie received and accepted an invitation to an audience by H.R.H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh who was in Cape-town at the time. Rev. Soga travelled extensively in the Cape Province and his work grew wonderfully, but in 1866 he had to cease work for a time on account of ill-health. During his illness he completed his translation of the Pilgrim’s Progress into Xosa. He also composed a number of hymns of great merit, including the famous Lizalis’ idinga lako (Fulfil Thy promise, 0 Lord).

He gradually became worse until he could move about only with the greatest difficulty. In 1868 he rendered most valuable service as one of the Board formed for revising the Xosa Bible, which was translated by the Rev. W. Appleyard. In 1867 the Rev. Tiyo Soga moved from Emgwali to Somerville at the request of the late Chief Kreli and continued there in spite of all difficulties to preach, organise and translate. In 1871 a change for the worse came about as a result of getting thoroughly wet while visiting Chief Mapasa on mission work. He died on the 12th August in the arms of his friend, the Rev. Richard Ross, at the age of 42.
The Rev. Tiyo Soga was neither an enthusiast, a fanatic nor a bigot. He was a true Christian, a thorough gentleman, who died in the service of his Master.
From the many articles that appeared in the Press at the death of the Rev. Tiyo Soga, we can only insert the following two:
“This gentleman-for in the true meaning of the word he was, to all intents and purposes, a perfect gentleman-was a pure-born Kaffir. His father was, and still is, a councillor of Sandile’s tribe, and an avowed heathen, in point of fact, a “Red Kaffir.” His son, however, as a youth, was sent to the Missionary Institution at Lovedale, and there distinguished himself so much by his keen intelligence and his ready aptitude for learning, that he was sent home to Glasgow to prosecute and complete his studies at the University of that place. He went through the full curriculum required in Scotland from candidates for the ministry, and in due time was licensed and ordained as a minister-missionary of the United Presbyterian Church. As a preacher, he was eloquent in speech and keen in thought, and talked with a Scottish accent, as strong as if he had been born on the banks of the Clyde, instead of those of the Chumie. He took a deep interest in everything calculated to advance the civilisation of his countrymen, and did so with a breadth of view and warmth of sympathy, in which mere sectarianism had no part. Among his accomplished works we may mention his translation of the Pilgrim’s Progress into Kaffir, which so high an authority as Mr. Charles Brownlee pronounces to be a perfect masterpiece of easy idiomatic writing. His services as one of the Board of Revisers of the translation of the Bible into Kaffir have been invaluable, and will now be seriously missed. In general conversation and discussion on ordinary topics he was one of the most intelligent and best informed men we ever knew; and many an hour have we spent with him, in which one utterly forgot his nationality ar his colour.”–The Cape Argus.
” The Kaffir youth who six years before left the shores of South Africa, little removed above his Christianised countrymen, having just as much knowledge as fitted him with efficiency to conduct a station school, and just as much power over the English language as enabled him to be a tolerable interpreter to the preacher yet ignorant of the Kaffir language, now returns to his native shores and people, thoroughly educated; an ordained minister of the Gospel, an accredited missionary of the Cross, and with a knowledge of and mastery over the English language which has often surprised those best capable of judging. A wonderful transformation has been wrought during these few years. In him there comes a new power into the Colony and Kaffirland, if the Colony and Kaffirland only recognise and receive it. The mental grasp and the moral capability of the Kaffir race are demonstrated in him. Men cannot despise the Kaffir race as they contemplate him. Without race-pattern or precedent, the first of his people, often strangely alone, surrounded and pressed upon by peculiar difficulties, he has manfully and successfully wrought his way up to the comparatively high level of educated English Christian life-the conquered has become the conqueror.”

” And how was the Rev. Tiyo Soga received when he returned to his native shores and people? Perhaps it was to be expected that in the Colony there should be manifested a great amount of caution and reserve, and that not a little suspicion should be entertained regarding him. Perhaps, too, it was only natural that, with some, special enmity should be aroused, and words of strong indignation used. We can excuse those men and women now who said we had made him specially to order in Scotland, and that he was the finest specimen ever imported of home educational cramming. This was a new thing under the South African sun. The thieving Kaffir, the marauding Kaffir, the irreclaimable Kaffir, a University-educated missionary of the Cross. This was too good to be true. At least men would wait and see. It was a mere experiment, and time alone could tell how it would succeed. Few went to the length of foretelling the time, near at hand, when he would have reverted to the red clay and blanket and all the heathen ways of his people.
” But while there was much of this’ reserve and caution everywhere, and not a little such doubt and suspicion, he was received by all missionaries and by all ministers of the Gospel-with one or two painful exceptions-with open arms and with most joyous hearts. From one end of the Eastern Province to the other there were only a few so-called professing Christians-miserable specimens surely of the disciples of the Nazarene-who did what they could, by indignant word and threat, to keep him out of the pulpits of the churches to which they belonged, and who absented themselves from divine service, because, despite them, he should conduct it.

” To the fine sensitive disposition of Tiyo Soga, to his generous manly nature, all such manifestations were very galling, and very difficult to bear. He had strength of mind and he had charity and forebearance enough to rise above them, and wisdom to make of them new incentives to his life-work.”
The colonists, generally, soon came to know him. He was watched with lynx-eyes everywhere on the frontier. Whenever lie preached or lectured, or addressed, such criticising crowds flocked to hear him as was the experience of no other South African missionary of his day. Nobly he stood this public test. He came out of the fire, in public estimation, purer and stronger than ever before.”-The Journal.

Prince Malunga Ka Mbandeni was born in the year 1879 in Swaziland. He was a brother of the Ngwenyama Bhunu of Swaziland. In 1899 the Ngwenyama died, the Queen Mother, Nabotsibeni, was proclaimed the Indhomkazi (Queen Regent) with. her son, Prince Malunga Ka Mbander..i, as her chief adviser, Sobuza II. being still a minor. In 1906 Prince Malunga Ka Mbandeni led a deputation to England, paid homage to King Edward VII. and later laid before the Colonial Office the grievance of the Swazi Tribe. The grievance included a complaint in connection with Lord Milner’s Annexation of a portion of Swaziland to the Union of South Africa, without first consulting the Swazies. The Swazies held that the annexation was a direct violation of the 1881 and 1884 treaties. The British Government, after hearing the Swazi case, declared the annexation null and void. Prince Malunga was well educated and enjoyed the confidence of the whole Swazi Tribe. The education of the boy heir Sobuza II. was entrusted to him. Nothing could be done by the Queen Regent and the Swazies without first seeking his advice. He was very popular with the European inhabitants. of Swaziland. Prince Malunga was a fine specimen of a man, standing about six feet six inches, and his tall body, broad shoulders, and other physical development, pleasant face and penetrating brown eyes made him a very conspicuous individual indeed. He died in January, 1915.

King Dinizulu, son of Cetywayo, King of the Zulu Nation, and father of Ingwenyalna Solomon Ka Dinizulu, was born at a critical time in South African history. Europeans had already firmly estabIished themselves as the rulers of South Africa, with a consequent loss of power and prestige to native South African rulers, the magnitude of which was only being realised when it fell to Dinizulu’s lot to succeed his father, Cetywayo, as King of the Zulus. Cetywayo himself having fought many battles to retain his independence and sovereignity.Dinizulu himself was to suffer like his father. When Bambata’s rebellion broke out it was likely to prove a great danger to the security of the Europeans. It was well known that though the Zulus had been vanquished, they still cherished a hope of one day becoming independent, and re-establishing their authority in the Iand. It was alleged by some people that Dinizulu was aiding and abetting and secretly assisting Bambata. This led to his arrest for high treason, and, although he had the most able lawyers in the country to defend him, and was assisted by Bishop Colenso, Miss Colenso and others, he was found guilty. Before being tried Dinizulu and his chief induna, Cakijane, were sent under escort to Port Shepstone. The preliminaries of the case were tried at Greytown, but the actual trial was at Pietermaritzburg. He was banned for life and sent to Middleburg, Transvaal, where he died. Bambata, whose surname was Zondi, was a petty chief in the Grey-town District, Natal. It was his armed protest against the Poll Tax levied by the Natal Government that sent Dinizulu into exile.
Dinizulu was a well built man, tall, with broad shoulders. He wore a heavy beard, had bright brown eyes and his appearance commanded respect.

A large number of beauty contests have been held in South Africa since 1910. The most important being those in which the winners are entered in overseas contests.

The first beauty contests

In 1910, a beauty pageant was held in Cape Town to celebrate the newly formed Union of South Africa. Each province sent a representative that was picked by a prominent man in her region.
The first national beauty contest was organised by the magazine Stage Cinema in 1918. Three women were chosen to star in films based on Rider Haggard's books.

Edna JOYCE was chosen to play the Queen of Sheba in King Solomon's Mines. Mabel MAY and Elise HAMILTON were chosen to play twin sisters in Allan Quatermain.

Many contests held after World War I were mainly fund-raising efforts, often for the Governor-General's fund. In 1925 Mavis ALEXANDER won the Cape Argus Queen of the Gala competition.

The first woman to carry the Miss South Africa title, unofficially, was Winnie COMYNS of Cape Town, who won a national contest organised by the South African Lady's Pictorial in 1926. Blanca Borckenhagen was Queen of the Orange Free State; Ethel Jagger, Queen of the Cape, Gyn Hathorn, Queen of Natal, and Blanca van der Hoven, Queen of the Transvaal.
In 1927, the Cape Town city council banned beauty contest as they felt that they are undignified and not for the good of the city.

In 1930 Molly LAMONT, a dancing teacher from Scottburgh, won the Outspan Film Candidate competition. Her prize was a holiday in England and a film test at Elstree Studios. She went on to act in more than 50 films in England and the USA.

In 1938, the Sunday Express held a Marlene Dietrich look-alike national contest, which was won by Thelma Fairlie of Kensington, Johannesburg. In 1963, Thelma met Marlene Dietrich during her visit to South Africa.
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, there were many Wool Queen contests across the country. Local winners went on to regional and provincial contests, from which one girl would become the overall winner. However, the final stage was never reached. Doreen O'Neill was Midlands Wool Queen in 1939, but only four more regional queens were chosen and when World War II broke out, the contest was abandoned.

After the war, the Wool Board partnered with Photo News magazine and Metro Goldwyn Meyer Films to create a national Meet the Stars contest. The winner was to be known as Miss South Africa 1948. Forty-nine finalists spent a week in Johannesburg. General SMUTS, then Prime Minister, crowned Avelyn MACASKILL of Bloemfontein as winner at the Johannesburg City Hall. Her prize included a trip to Hollywood as the guest of MGM, visits to New York, Holland, London, Paris and Canada, and a diamond ring.

A few days before Avelyn's crowning, Stage & Cinema ran a readers' contest which gave the winner an entry in Universal International's Hollywood Beauty Contest. June FULTON of Durban won. Her prize included a six-month film contract and being photographed with film stars.

In 1944 Avelyn MaCASKILL won a beauty pageant. In 1949, Wynona CHEYNEY won a beauty pageant and reigned from 1949 to 1951.
Before the 1950s, most of the larger contests were organised by magazines such as Stage & Cinema, South Africa Pictorial and Outspan, or by newspapers, often in partnership with African Consolidated Theatres. Women submitted a photo and from these photos finalists would be chosen and published. The readers would vote for their favourite.

Beauty contests were racially segretated until the late 1970s. In the 1950s, Drum magazine, aimed at black readers, started running model and beauty contests. Later on a Miss Black South Africa pageant was held. Other popular contests were organised by the Ellerines furniture chain, and football associations.

In 1952, Outspan magazine and African Consolidated Theatres started a contest to find an entrant for the first Miss Universe pageant that year. Catherine HIGGINS, a short-hand typist from Johannesburg, wanted to become an actress. She entered the contest and won, taking her to Long Beach, California, where she was placed 7th and voted by the other contestants as Miss Friendly Spirit.

In 1956, Piet BEUKES, editor of Die Landstem, obtained the right to send a South African representative to the Miss World pageant in London. In 1960, the Miss Universe pageant in Miami Beach, Florida, and the Miss International Beauty pageant in Long Beach, California, also gave Die Landstem the right to enter a South African representative. Die Landstem, in partnership with the Sunday Times, arranged the contests for the Miss World entrant. The Sunday Express was in the partnership to choose the entrant for Miss Universe.

Beauty competitions were held in Margate where Miss Hibiscus was chosen and entered in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Hibiscus organisers re-named their title to Miss Protea in 1968.

The history of the Miss South Africa contest

The first official Miss South Africa contest was held in 1956. This was after the Afrikaans newspaper, Die Landstem, acquired the rights to enter someone in the Miss World pageant in London. Together with the Sunday Times, a South African English newspaper, they organised the first official Miss South Africa contest. It wasn't a pageant yet as entrants only sent in their photos and the newspaper readers voted for their favourites. The finalists' photos were again published and readers selected Miss South Africa. There was no crowning ceremony.

In 1964 and 1965, the selection system changed. The finalists and the winner were selected by the newspapers' editorial staff. In 1966 and 1967 the finalists were still selected by the newspapers, but the winners were selected by the readers.

In 1968, Die Landstem closed down and the Sunday Times took over the contest, bringing in another Afrikaans newspaper, Dagbreek. The selection process in 1968 still saw the finalists selected from photos but the winner was selected by a panel of celebrity judges meeting in Johannesburg.
The selection process changed again in 1970. Regional pageants were held and the regional winners appeared before celebrity judges in Johannesburg. The winner and runner-up were announced at a cocktail party in Johannesburg, after being announced in the newspapers. In 1972, the Miss South Africa contest became a pageant and Stephanie REINECKE was crowned in front of a live audience in the Johannesburg City Hall.
Regional pageants were not held in 1975. The finalists were selected after nationwide auditions. This system remained in place until 1994.

In 1978, the Miss South Africa pageant was opened to all races.
In 1994, Doreen MORRIS, a former M-Net presenter, went into partnership with Sun International to run the Miss South Africa pageant, after Rapport and the Sunday Times withdrew due to political interference from the ANC's Youth League. Sun International took full ownership of the pageant in 2000.

In the spotlight

Beauty pageants, especially Miss South Africa, crown came with many opportunities and most of the winners made good use of them. After their reigns, many beauty queens launched busy careers, while others found domestic life pleasing. Here we take a look at what happened to some of them.

Mavis Alexander

In October 1925, a Cape Town newspaper, the Argus, sponsored a beauty contest. Close to 800 contestants entered by sending in their photos which went on public display. On the 14 November the winner was crowned in the Tivoli Theatre in Cape Town.
Mavis ALEXANDER, a school teacher from Montagu won. Her prizes included a cheque for 25 guineas, theatre seats, a camera, a hat, a dress, silk stockings, shoes, an umbrella, lunch for six people for a week, a perm, a one-seater sofa, a watch, dance lessons, and a photo frame for her winning photo. She was also driven around Cape Town in the car which the Prince of Wales had used in Cape Town shortly before the contest.
Mavis later moved to the Strand, where her mother lived. She went back to teaching and spent 26 years teaching at Somerset West Primary. After her mother's death in 1950, she married a life-long friend, Bertie MITTEN. A few years later Bertie passed away. Mavis became involved in charity work and the Methodist church in Strand. In her will she left money to the Rotarary Club. In 1994, the Rotary Anns of the Strand, erected a clock in Beach Road in her memory. A bronze plate has the following inscription: "Tyd vir vrede, time for peace, Ixesha Ngo Xola. A gift to the community from Strand Rotary Anns. In memory of Mavis Mitton. 1994

Avelyn Macaskill

After her reign, Avelyn went to London where she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for two years. When she returned to Bloemfontein, she married businessman Jannie WESSELS and they had three children. After Jannie's death, she married Ronnie VAN REENEN. They moved to Cape Town in 1983, where they were involved with the Capab Opera Chorus and the Philharmonic Choir. In 1994, they bought an apartment in Spain 's Costa del Sol, and divide their time between Cape Town and Spain. Avelyn enjoys working in her gardens and painting in oils.
Winnie Comyns

Winifred (Winnie) Nora Mary Florence COMYNS married Egmar WESEMANN, but was divorced in 1951.

June Fulton

After returning from her prize trip to California, June met Antony BURTON from London. They got married and had two daughters. The family lived in Portugal for 11 years, where June ran a modelling school. They moved to England, where June died of cancer in 1990. June had acting roles in The Gal Who Took the West (1949) as a dance hall girl, and in Yes Sir That's My Baby (1949) as Mrs. Koslowski.

Catherine Edwina Higgins

Catherine became a successful model in South Africa. She was known for her diamond smile, as she had a diamond embedded in one of her front teeth. She was the daughter of James Arthur HIGGINS and Christopholina Edina VAN RENSBURG (MHG reference 10845/71, her father's death notice). She had an aunt and uncle, Mr and Mrs F.C. TOWNSEND who lived at 86 Moore Street, East London, in 1952. This was her mother's sister. Catherine's uncle on her mother's side, Freddie VAN RENSBURG, was a national professional snooker and billiards champion. He passed away in 1997 at the age of 88.

Ingrid Mills

Now Ingrid DE HAAST, she is a successful glass artist in Somerset West, after starting out as a potter more than 20 years ago. She attended classes in Corning, USA, as well as in Oregon. The former Miss South Africa 1953 also had a role in a Hollywood film. Ingrid was crowned in Johannesburg in May 1953. Her runner-up was Una DE BEER (Miss East London). Ingrid was Miss Salisbury, and was born in East London.

Penny Anne Coelen

Penelope Anne was born in Shepperton, Middlesex, on April 15, 1939, she lived in the Cape, in Witbank, Pretoria, Swaziland, Benoni and Estcourt before the family finally settled in Durban.  When she won Miss World in 1958, it was the 8th Miss World pageant and had 22 contestants. Penny was an 18-year-old secretary. After her reign, she tried acting in Hollywood with James GARNER's help, but failed her screen test. After returning to South Africa, she married her first love, Michael REY, whom she met when she was 16. Michael was a suger-cane farmer at Umhlali, outside Durban.
They had five sons – Michael, Jean-Paul, Dominic, Nicholas and Christopher. Penny ran a beauty salon and gave lectures. She used to do promotional work, marketing and sales for American Airlines. In 1991, the ATKV awarded her a Vrou vir Vroue award for her involvement in charity and environmental work. Penny has her own clothing range, and endorsed beauty products. Her hobbies include gardening, painting, and learning languages.

Anneline Kriel

In November 1974, Helen Morgan, Miss UK, was crowned Miss World. Four days later, it was discovered that she was an unmarried mother and the title was passed on to the runner-up, Anneline KRIEL (19). She was born in Witbank on 28 July 1955 to Johannes (Hannes) and Marie. Her father passed away in Pretoria in November 1997. Anneline's siblings are Renette and Ernst. Renette was married to Graham McKENZIE, an Australian cricketer.

Anneline was Joolkoningin at Tukkies. She was Miss Northern Transvaal when she won Miss South Africa. After her Miss World reign she appeared in films (she studied drama at the University of Pretoria), including Someone Like You (1978), alongside Hans STRYDOM; Kill and Kill Again (1981), alongside James RYAN, Bill FLYNN and Ken GAMPU; and Reason to Die, alongside Arnold VOSLOO. She also had a role in the TV series, Ballade van 'n Enkeling. In 1986 she acted in the play, The Marriage Go Round.

In 1976, a scandal erupted when her naked pictures appeared in the Sunday Times. Ray HILLIGEN, a bodybuilder, had taken them while Anneline was sunbathing next to his pool.

Anneline also tried her hand at singing, releasing a record, He took off my romeos, in 1981. At the age of 39, she posed for Playboy magazine, draped in the new South African flag.
When she won Miss World she was dating fellow student Jacques MALAN but the relationship did not stand the strain. A relationship with Richard LORING, the singer, followed. He recorded a song for her, called Sweet Anneline. Another short relationship followed with the wealthy Italian baron and industrialist, Rudolf PARISI. In 1979 she dated Henk PISTORIUS of Johannesburg for awhile. Anneline married three times – first to Sol KERZNER, hotel magnate, in 1980 in the Randburg magistrate's office (they divorced in 1985). On 10 October 1989 she married Philip TUCKER, a show jumper, but they divorced in 1993. They had two children, Tayla and Whitney. On 29 March 1996, she married current husband, Peter BACON (Sun International executive). They live in Cape Town where she is involved with charities such as Child Welfare and the Cancer and Heart Foundations. Her business interests include marketing her clothing range her beauty products and perfumes.

Margaret Gardiner

Margaret, born in Woodstock, was 15 when she was discoverd as a model by the then Rapport photographer Bernard JORDAAN. In 1978 she was crowned as Miss RSA. Later that year she won the Miss Universe pageant in Acapulco, Mexico, becoming the first African winner, and the only South African winner to date. Her mother, Dawn, lives in Table View. Her father passed away in 2000. Her sister, Sandy BRONKHORST, lives in Klerksdorp. Sandy was a finalist in the 1976 Miss South Africa pageant.
Margaret married André NEL, son of Kay, in Cape Town on 14 February 1987 at St. George's Cathedral. He is a medical researcher at the University of California in Los Angeles, where the couple have lived since 1989.
Margaret has faced some serious health issues. She had TB as a child. In 1993 she was close to death after suffering an ectopic pregnancy. In January 1995 she gave birth to Brandon. He was christened at St. George's Cathedral in 1996. Margaret had breast cancer in 1998.
She has a degree in psychology from Charleston College in South Carolina. In the early 1990s she took small roles in a TV series, a film and in theatre plays. In 1994 she published a book for aspiring beauty queens, Die wenpad vir modelle en skoonheidskoninginne, published by Human & Rousseau.
She is now a freelance journalist and TV reporter, and a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Margaret often reports for the SABC show, Top Billing. Her articles regularly appear in the You, Huisgenoot and TVPlus magazines.

Norma Vorster

Later changed her surname to FOSTER and went on to make TV documentaries.

Mitzi Stander
Mitsianna (Mitzi) died in a car accident while driving her sports car in Victory Park, Johannesburg, on 18 June 1973. She was married to David Johannes FOURIE at the time (her death notice: MHG 6664/73).

Denise Muir
She died at her home in Sandton in 1992.

Monica Fairall
Monica became a radio presenter in Durban.

Yvonne Hulley
Her father served in the South African Air Force. Her parents retired to Hermanus where they had a restaurant.

Nickey Carras
She married Bobby VERWEY, the pro golfer.

Ellen Peters

She was Miss Africa South 1973 and placed in the final 15. In 1976, she entered Miss RSA and came second. Afterwards she went to live in Greece and met Israeli-born Naaman SKOLNIK, a businessman. She converted to Judaism and was married in Israel. They live in Hertzelia Pituach, where Ellen is an Orthodox Jew. (see picture)

Kazeka Ntantala
It's not everyone that hits the headlines thirty years after their moment of glory, but in the case of former Miss South Africa, Kazeka Somhlahlo (nee Ntantala) this is exactly what happened. BARBARA HOLLANDS recently caught up with her. Kazeka, of Idutywa then but now living in Amalinda, won the Miss South Africa 1970 pageant in Umtata, which was under the auspices of the South African Non-White Cultural Syndicate. Tandiswa BAM of Umtata was second. Kazeka's prize included cosmetics from Elida Gibbs, a bedroom suite, a radio display cabinet and clothing vouchers. The main prize of a trip to the USA was cancelled because the organisers ran out of money. She was a teacher in Idutywa. She endorsed Karoo Cream in magazines. In 1972 she was in a car crash near Willowvale, which left her with facial scars. Kazeka ended up marrying the social worker who was driving that night and they had two children. After marriage she taught in Alice and later worked for an insurance company before joining Zingisa Educational Project where she is still a regional co-ordinator.

Liz Bunting
In 1977, Liz was the first non-white contestant to place in the Miss South Africa pageant.

Ellen Liebenberg
Ellen was until recently the wife of Jannie Engelbrecht , former Springbok rugby player and owner of Rust en Vrede. She was Miss Matieland 1962. In 1963 she got engaged to Jannie in Sea Point and they went on to have three children – Jean, Angeline and Judy (married to GRAAFF). They met during her student days at the University of Stellenbosch. Ellen left her studies in 1963 shortly before her wedding, to represent South Africa at the Miss Universe pageant in Miami. Ellen was Miss South West Africa, which made her an automatic finalist in the Miss South Africa contest. The Engelbrecht family was broken up recently when Jannie divorced Ellen, and a court case followed whch involved the farm Rust en Vrede.

Vera Johns
Vera married the All Black rugby player, Alan SUTHERLAND. They have a horse stud farm, Somerset, near Mooi River. She has a rose named after her.

Wilma van der Bijl
She was a qualified pharmacist when she won the crown. She married the Greek businessman, Ari TAPANLIS, owner of a toy company. In 1995 Wilma's first child passed away two days after being born.

Yolanda Klopperss
She married Walter WARD, a doctor, and had a stormy marriage.

Karin Sickel
Karin married show jumper Errol WUCHERPFENNIG.

Odette Scrooby
She married Willie JOUBERT and they owned a nature reserve near Warmbaths for a while. Her sister, Olivia, was runner-up in Miss South Africa 1990.

Leanne Hosking
Leanne married an Australian cricketer, Mike HAYSMAN.

Letitia Snyman
She converted to Judaism in 1991 before marrying businessman Geoffrey RUBENSTEIN.

Andrea Steltzer
She owns a modelling agency in Edenvale. She is the only Miss South Africa to represent another country in the Miss World contest. In 1989, she won the Miss Germany contest as she was of German origin and still had a German passport. In 2002 she was engaged to the Springbok rugby player, James DALTON. Tat same year, a rose was named after her at the Bloemfontein Rose Show.

Sandy McCormack
She married businessman Richard BARKHUIZEN and lived in Knysna.

Janine Botbyl
She has a son and lives in Johannesburg.

Diana Tilden-Davis
Her grandmother was Thelma Fairlie, who was also a beauty queen. Older sister Janine BOTBYL won Miss South Africa 1988, and her sister Leanne was a finalist in 1982. Diana had a role in the horror film Howling IV and the action adventure Captive Rage. While doing a documentary in the Okavango, Diana met Chris Kruger. They were married at the Momba camp. They live in Maun in their safari business.

Michelle Bruce
She has a son and lives in Cape Town. Some of her business ventures included edible underwear and marketing condoms.

Suzette Van der Merwe
She was married to Greg VOGT, but later divorced.

Amy Kleyhans
Amy was the first Coloured woman to wear the Miss South Africa crown. Amy married a New Zealander, businessman Leighton CURD. The couple have a son, Thomas. She is involved in educational ventures.

Jacqui Mofokeng
Jacqui was the first black woman to win Miss South Africa. She was nominated by the ANC in the elections but she declined. In 1994 Jacqui appeared in the film, A White Man in Africa, in the role of Hazel, an illiterate rural woman who has a relationship with an Australian diplomat. Today she is involved with human resources and production companies, and serves on the boards of several companies.

Basetsane Makgalemele
Basetsane was a popular beauty queen. She was born and bred in Soweto. After her reign she became a TV presenter. She went on to become a shareholder in Tswelopele, the company that produces Top Billing. She has two older sisters, Lerato and Johanna, and a younger brother, Abbey. Her parents are Philip and Beatrice. She is married to Radio Metro station manager Romeo Khumalo and has a son, Nkosinathi.

Peggy Sue Khumalo
Peggy Sue (21) was Miss South Africa 1996. Five days afer her crowning, it was discovered that she was Peggy Priscilla Erasmus (24) and had changed her name first to Peggy Priscilla Khumalo and subsequently to Nonhlanhla Peggy-Sue Khumalo, as was publised in the Government Gazette on 04 April 1996. She was born in Newcastle on 07 December 1972 to Jumaima Khumalo and James Erasmus, a coloured or white farmworker. She was raised by her white grandmother, Afrikaans-speaking Cornelia Susanna Dunn. She attended Chelmsford, a coloured school in Newcastle, and matriculated from Haythorne High School in Pietermaritzburg. Peggy caused a public outcry when she said that she would slaughter a goat and several cows if she won Miss Universe or Miss World. After establishing her own PR company she went to study further in the UK, where she is a fund manager for Investec.

Kerishnie Naicker
Kerishnie had an honours degree and planned to open her own pharmacy. She was the first Indian woman to wear the crown. She grew up in Reservoir Hills, Durban, with her parents Amra and Joey, and two siblings. After obtaining a first class Matric, Kerishnie enrolled for a Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy, and later a Masters in Pharmacy. During her final year, her father passed away from a heart attack. He was a self-employed businessman and Kerishnie got involved in the family's business interests. In 1997, whilst practicing as a pharmacist, Kerishnie entered the Miss South Africa pageant and won. She participated in both Miss Universe and Miss World. Kerishnie is involved in many business ventures, health research, is a television presenter, producer, master of ceremonies and public speaker. She helped secure funding for the building of 12 community health clinics, and played a key role in getting the Chatsworth Youth Centre up. She is also director of her own company, KJN and Associates, a consultancy facilitating corporate social investment projects.
Jo-Ann Strauss
Now a TV presenter, businesswoman and speaker, Jo-Ann was 19 when she won Miss South Africa in 2000. She started presenting the magazine programme Pasella in the same year, and joined Top Billing in June 2005. She speaks English, Afrikaans and Xhosa. Jo-Ann was head-girl at Hottentots Holland High School in 1998. She graduated from Stellenbosch University with a B.Comm (Law) degree. In July 2002, Jo-Ann participated in the Celebrity Big Brother reality TV show to raise R2 000 000 for five children's charities. She finished in second place. She has her own communications company.

Heather Hamilton
Heather has a Bachelors in Commerce from the University of Kwazulu-Natal. She became a fund manager and joined a prominent asset management firm working as an investment consultant. In 1994 she won the South Africa Junior Equitation championships. Her brother was instrumental in exposing canned lion hunting.

Sonia Raciti
One of Sonia Raciti's dreams is to release her own CD. She was a member of the National Youth Choir for three years, having started singing at 13. Sonia, from Estcourt, studied for a higher diploma in education at Edgewood College of Education.

Joan Ramagoshi
Miss South Africa 2003 was rcently marred to Jeff. Khanyisile Mbau. She was a part-time model from Pretoria. Joan speaks five languages: English, Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, Tswana, and Zulu. After completing a PR diploma, she started her own PR agency.

Claudia Henkel
Claudia was a second-year top law student at the University of Pretoria when she entered the Miss South Africa pageant. She has two sisters, Anica and Nicola. Her father Irmin is an ear, nose and throat surgeon, and mom Linda looked after the family home in Pretoria East. Claudia attended Pretoria Girls High and was a finalist in a model search competition in Matric. She spent two months in Italy and finished Matric through correspondence while modelling. Claudia could not represent the country at Miss World in Sanya, China, as it was held on the same night as the Miss South Africa finals in Sun City. Her runner-up, Dhiveja Sundrun, was sent in her place.

Dhiveja Sundrum
She represented South Africa at the Miss World pageant in 2005. Dhiveja was a fifth-year University of Cape Town medical student. She lives in Gardens, Cape Town. The Miss World competition was the third pageant she'd entered. Her first one was Rapport's Miss Cape Peninsula in 2004, which gave her automatic entry into the Miss South Africa pageant. She's appeared in TV ads and fashion catalogues, and was a TV presenter. Her father Dayalan is an orthodontist and mom Veena is a former teacher.
South Africans in the Miss World pageant
Miss South Africa has done well in the Miss World pageant, with Penny (1958) and Anneline (1974) taking the top prize.

Politics got involved and from 1978 to 1991, Miss South Africa was barred from Miss World. In 1970 a non-white South African was chosen to compete in Miss World and was given the title of Miss Africa South. This continued until South Africa was expelled from Miss World after the 1977 pageant.

In 1975, Vera JOHNS was not allowed to take part in the Miss World as she did not meet the pageant's residency requirements. She had been Miss Rhodesia in 1972 and had not lived in South Africa for 5 years. Her first runner-up, Crystal Cooper, refused to enter Miss World unless she was awarded the Miss South Africa title and prizes.

The second runner-up, Rhoda Rademeyer, competed at Miss World 1975 and was finished in the top 15. In 1976, the presence of a black Miss Africa South and a white Miss South Africa, caused 9 countries to withdraw their contestants in protest against South Africa's apartheid system. In 1977 ten countries withdrew in protest against the presence of a white Miss South Africa. After 1977, Miss World organizers did not accept South African contestants until 1991, with the end of apartheid. Diana TILDEN-DAVIES represented South Africa at the 1991 Miss World contest, ending the ban.
From 1992 to 1995, and 2001, the pageant was held at Sun City, South Africa. In 2002, Vanessa CARREIRA boycotted the pageant which was held in Nigeria, in protest against the Amina Lawal affair. Claire Sabbagha, runner-up, was sent as a replacement when the pageant moved to London. This led to confusion as the Miss World organisers said that at 25, Claire was too old. Karen Lourens (19), Miss Junior Africa, of Roodepoort, was also sent in as a replacement but after two days she was sent home without being allowed to participate.

Contestants at the Miss World Pageant

1957: Adele KRUGER, third
1958: Penelope Anne COELEN won the title
1959: Moya MEAKER, semi-finalist
1960: Denise MUIR, third
1961: Yvonne Brenda HULLEY, semi-finalist
1962: Yvonne Maryann FICKER, fourth
1963: Louise CROUS
1964: Vedra Karamitas
1965: Carrol Adele Davis
1966: Joan (Johanna) CARTER, semi-finalist
1967: Disa DUIVESTEIN, semi-finalist
1968: Mitsianna (Mitzi) Stander
1969: Linda Meryl COLLET, sixth
1970: Pearl Gladys JANSEN (Miss Africa South), second, and Jillian Elizabeth JESSUP (Miss South Africa) fifth
1971: Monica FAIRALL, semi-finalist, and Gaily Ryan (Miss Africa South)
1972: Stephanie Elizabeth REINECKE, semi-finalist, and Cynthia Shange (Miss Africa South)
1973: Shelley LATHAM (Miss South Africa), fifth, and Ellen PETERS (Miss Africa South), semi-finalist
1974: Anneline KRIEL won the tile, and Evelyn Peggy WILLIAMS (Miss Africa South), semi-finalist
1975: Rhoda RADEMEYER, semi-finalist, and Lydia Gloria Johnstone (Miss Africa South)
1976: Veronica Rozette Kuki Matsepe (Miss Africa South) and Lynn Massyn
1977: Vanessa Wannenburg (Miss South Africa)
1991: Diana TILDEN-DAVIS, third
1992: Amy KLEINHANS, fifth
1993: Palesa Jacqueline (Jacqui) MOFOKENG, second
1994: Basetsane Julia MAKGALEMELE, second
1995: Bernalee DANIEL, semi-finalist
1996: Peggy-Sue KHUMALO, semi-finalist
1997: Jessica MOTAUNG, third
1998: Kerishnie NAICKER, fifth
1999: Sonia RACITI, third
2000: Heather Joy HAMILTON
2001: Jo-Ann Cindy STRAUSS, semi-finalist
2002: Boycotted the pageant in Nigeria, but then joined in London
2003: Cindy Nell
2004: Joan Kwena Ramagoshi
2005: Dhiveja Sundrum, semi-finalist

South Africans in the Miss Universe pageant

The Miss Universe pageant has been held annually since 1952. It was started by the Californian clothing company Pacific Mills to showcase its Catalina swimwear brand. In 1996 Donald Trump acquired ownership of the pageant. Various beauty contests had the right to send a South African representative to Miss Universe.

In 1952 the winner of the Miss South Africa (Universe) contest represented South Africa. In May 1952, Catherine HIGGINS, Miss Johannesburg, represented South Africa. Her runners-up were Jean BROWNLEE (Miss Cape Town), Stella COUTTS (Miss Durban) and Helena VAN DER LINDE (Miss East London). In 1953 the winner of Miss Golden Jubilee competed in Miss Universe.

From 1960 until 1967, the South African representative for Miss Universe was elected at the Hibiscus Queen contest in Margate. The contest existed prior to 1960 and still continues today. From 1969 to 1974 South Africa did not take part in the Miss Universe pageant. In 1975, Rapport, an Afrikaans newspaper, acquired the rights to send a representative to the Miss Universe pageant. They sponsored the Miss RSA regional pageant and the winner went to Miss Universe. Gail Anthony was selected to represent South Africa in 1975. In 1978 the Miss RSA pageant became a national pageant. Jenny KAY, Miss RSA 1980, did not compete at Miss Universe 1980 in Seoul as the Korean government did not recognise the government of South Africa and refused to grant her a visa.

In 1982 the newspaper changed the name Miss RSA to Miss South Africa. This followed after a dispute about the national title and international participation. In 1982 and 1984, the dispute led to two beauty pageants – each sponsored by a Sunday paper – Rapport, and the Sunday Times, an English paper. Rapport argued that as the only pageant to have entry to an international pageant, their winner should be known as Miss South Africa. This is why there are two Miss South Africas in 1982 and 1984. In 1985, the newspapers agreed to join forces and one Miss South Africa pageant was held.

Miss South Africa did not compete in Miss Universe from 1985 to 1994. In 1985, Andrea Steltzer was not allowed to compete in the pageant. Andrea went on to become Miss Germany 1988 and was a semi-finalist in the 1989 Miss Universe pageant. As Miss Germany 1988 she was not allowed to enter Miss World because of her South African background.

In 1995, South Africa was again allowed to participate in the Miss Universe pageant. A new title, Miss Universe South Africa, was created but was discontinued after the 1997 pageant, as the Miss South Africa organisation acquired the right to send their winner to the Miss Universe pageant. Miss South Africa now represents South Africa in both international pageants.

Contestants at the Miss Universe Pageant

1952: Catherine Edwina Higgins, semi-finalist
1953: Ingrid Rita Mills, semi-finalist
1954-1959: no entry
1960: Nicolette Joan Caras
1961: Marina Christelis
1962: Lynette Gamble
1963: Ellen Leibenberg, semi-finalist
1964: Gail Robinson
1965: Veronika Edelgarda Hilda Prigge, semi-finalist
1966: Lynn Carol De Jager
1967: Windley Ballenden
1968: Monica Fairall
1969-1974: no entry
1975: Gail Anthony
1976: Cynthia Classen
1977: Glynis Dorothea Fester
1978: Margaret Gardiner, winner
1979: Veronika Wilson, semi-finalist and 2nd runner-up for Best National Costume
1980: no entry
1981: Daniela Di Paolo
1982: Odette Octavia Scrooby
1983: Leanne Beverly Hosking
1984: Leticia Snyman, runner-up
1985: Andrea Steltzer did not compete
1986-1994: no entry
1995: Augustine Masilela, semi-finalist
1996: Carol Anne Becker
1997: Mbali Gasa
1998: Kerishnie Naicker, semi-finalist
1999: Sonia Raciti, third
2000: Heather Joy Hamilton, semi-finalist
2001: Jo-Ann Cindy Strauss
2002: Vanessa Do Ceu Carreira
2003: Cindy Nell, third
2004: Joan Ramagoshi
Miss Africa South
The Miss Africa South competition, for non-white women, was first organised in 1970, with the winner taking part in the Miss World pageant.
Winners:
1970: Pearl Jansen
1971: Gaily Ryan
1972: Cynthia Shange
1973: Ellen Peters
1974: Evelyn Williams
1975: Lydia Johnstone
Miss International Beauty Winners:
1960 Nona Sheriff
1961 Dina Robbertse
1962 Aletta Strydom
1963 Madie Claassen
1964 Lorraine Mason
1965 Dianne Webster
1966 Dawn Duff-Gray
1967 Mary Macdonald

Sources:

Naspers newspapers
Generations – A South African genealogy newsletter, Vol. 3, Iss. 19
http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world.htm
http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/universe.htm
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