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Rothmann and most of her colleagues on the ACVV executive committee were voteless but politically committed women. ... Apparently, her minimal interest in fashion did not include the voortrekker dress patterns promoted in Die Boerevrouw ...
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...1903 – 1999 Author of several youth books and a historical book Anna W. Rothmann was a daughter of the writer M E R (Maria Elizabeth Rothmann). She studied at Stellenbosch University (1924 BSc, 1926 Secondary Teacher's Diploma
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By 1924 the ACVV had appointed its first full-time social worker and a leading member, M.E. Rothmann, was a member of the Carnegie Commission on the poor whites which reported in 1932. The new Nationalist government in 1924 faced...
- ↑ Lantern – 20 1970 p98 "This brother, F.L. Rothmann, helped her with her great story of the Voortrekkers written for children, for he had done much research among people of Voortrekker stock in the Transvaal. She, therefore, gives the impression of having been an ..."
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