New Dictionary of South African Biography, Volume 1E. J. Verwey The New Dictionary of South African Biography is a companion volume to the successful five-volume series entitled Dictionary of South African Biography. It soon became apparent that the entries in the latter series were neither comprehensive nor exhaustive and plans were made to publish a follow-up series that would focus on those men and women whose contribution to South African history had either only recently been discovered or overlooked in the past. It took five years of painstaking research to trace these names - mainly because existing records were inadequate and very often biographical details had to be supplied by family members and close friends who were not always easy to locate. |
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