C.S. Badenhorst
C.S. Badenhorst (1926–2004) was an Afrikaans author and playwright.
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Biography
Born Christina Susanna van Zyl on 24 Mei 1926 on the farm Bokkraal in die Marico-district, where she attended a two-person school for the first eight years, before matriculated at the Zeerust Hoërskool in 1943. She then attended the Potchefstroomse Onderwyskollege to study physical education.
She began teaching in 1947, and would continue doing so till her retirement in 1975 (with a break of a few years while she raised her two daughters, and wrote full time).
She married Frik Badenhorst in 1949, and passed away in Potchefstroom in 2004.
Her writing
She wrote primarily for children and teenagers and had her first story published in Die Jongspan[] when she was barely nine years old. She would go on to write hundreds of stories for the that journal (published under her own name as well as under seven pseudonyms), as well as publishing in the children's magazines Patrys, Trompie en Pronkertjie.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Sources
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Susanna_van_Zyl
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