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Blignault
Blignaut is an Afrikaans surname, prevalent in South Africa. Notable people with this surname include: * Audrey Blignault (1916–2008), South African writer * Calvin Blignault (1979–2010), South African engineer See also * Blignaut Blignaut is an Afrikaans surname, derived from the French language, French ''Blignault/Blignot''. It may refer to: *Aegidius Jean Blignaut (1899–1994), South African author *Alex Blignaut (1932–2001), racing driver and motor racing team owner fr ... References {{surname, Blignault Afrikaans-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Blignault
Calvin Blignault (4 September 1979 – 21 August 2010) was a South African mechanical engineer. Life and work Blignault attended the Kabega Park Primary and Hoërskool Framesby Secondary schools. He earned his NDip, BTech, MTech and DTech qualifications as a mechanical engineer. He completed both his master's and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. At Port Elizabeth Technikon (PE Technikon) he conducted world-class research as a master's student. In 2002, he made the first friction stir weld on South African soil from 6mm thick aluminium alloy plate at the PE Technikon together with Grant Kruger using a milling machine. He was scientifically supervised by Danie Hattingh and Theo van Niekerk, who were National Research Foundation grant holders. He obtained his PhD as a result of these studies.Deon de Beer: Tshumisano - Meeting the market halfway'', Department of Science and Technology, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Blignault
Audrey Bettie Blignault (July 6, 1916 – October 1, 2008) was a South African writer. Life The daughter of an Irish mother and an Afrikaner father who was the town's mayor, she was born Audrey Bettie Swart in Bredasdorp. She studied Afrikaans literature at Stellenbosch University, receiving an MA in Afrikaans and Dutch. In 1940, she began teaching at Wellington and then later at Stellenbosch. In 1945, she became the editor of ''Die Huisvrou'', a women's magazine. In the same year, she started the first Afrikaans book programme on radio. For 25 years, she wrote a column for the Afrikaans women's magazine ''Sarie''. Essays from those columns were collected and published in 17 books. A collection of her letters ''Audrey Blignault: ’n Blywende vreugde'' was published in May 2008. Blignault also was editor for ''Naweekpos'' and directed the women's culture programme for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Blignault died in a Cape Town clinic at the age of 92. Fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blignaut
Blignaut is an Afrikaans surname, derived from the French language, French ''Blignault/Blignot''. It may refer to: *Aegidius Jean Blignaut (1899–1994), South African author *Alex Blignaut (1932–2001), racing driver and motor racing team owner from South Africa *Andy Blignaut (born 1978), Zimbabwean cricketer * Christian August Blignaut (1897–1974), aka Chris Blignaut and Harold Wise, South African prolific singer/songwriter (see :af:Chris Blignaut, Afrikaans Wikipedia) *Dylan Blignaut (born 1995), German cricketer *Nikolai Blignaut (born 1985), South African rugby union player *Pieter Jeremias Blignaut (1841–1909), South African (Boer) civil servant and Acting State President *Toek Blignaut (1922–2007) was a South African writer See also * Blignault {{surname Afrikaans-language surnames Surnames of French origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian Afrikaans, Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch language, Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the free Burghers, predominantly Dutch settlers and slavery in South Africa#Dutch rule, enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages including German language, German, Malay language, Malay and Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic language, analytic Morphology (linguistics), morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini; and it encloses Lesotho. Covering an area of , the country has Demographics of South Africa, a population of over 64 million people. Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament of South Africa, Parliament, is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is regarded as the judicial capital. The largest, most populous city is Johannesburg, followed by Cape Town and Durban. Cradle of Humankind, Archaeological findings suggest that various hominid species existed in South Africa about 2.5 million years ago, and modern humans inhabited the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
