New dictionary of South African biography. Volume 1
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
Print Book, English, 1995
Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, 1995
Biography
310 pages : illustrations
9780796916488, 0796916489
1037102951
Includes cummulative index to the first series of the Dictionary of South African biography volumes I-V
Includes index