Category Archives: Biography

Personalities of Graskop. Part 3: Ian Whyte PhD, SAN Parks Scientist Extrordinaire

Posted on January 3, 2014 by tourism marketer

  Dr Ian J Whyte, Kruger’s experienced elephant specialist is a confident and accomplished scientist but if it wasn’t for a rather sedate sport, his career path could have been very different. Born in 1947 in Vereeniging, and an underachiever … Continue reading →

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Personalities of Graskop. Part 2: Louis Audie, one of South Africa’s Accomplished Artists Relocates to Graskop

Posted on January 2, 2014 by tourism marketer

Louis Audie Accomplished Fine Artist South African based Artist Louis Audie believes that he has brought the African Sunlight into many homes, corporate offices and the boardrooms of many people with his landscapes and wildlife paintings, which are realistic but … Continue reading →

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A Short Biography of Abel Erasmus

Posted on September 10, 2013 by tourism marketer

ERASMUS Jacobus Abel: Born in Weenen, Natal, on 8 February 1845 to the voortrekker family of Jacobus Johannes Petrus Erasmus and his wife, Maria Margaredia Cadierina (nee Jordaan). His father died shortly after his birth and his mother decided to … Continue reading →

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