Wilhelm van der Vyver (born 22 September 1989 in Grabouw) is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. [1] [2]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing South Africa | |||||
2006 | World Junior Championships | Beijing, China | 16th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 40.36 |
2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 2nd | 100m | 10.42 (wind: -0.8 m/s) |
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.70 | |||
2009 | Universiade | Belgrade, Serbia | 10th (sf) | 100 m | 10.46 |
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.52 | |||
2010 | Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.82 |
Steve Hofmeyr is a South African singer, songwriter, writer, actor and former TV presenter.
The 1962 South African Grand Prix, formally titled the 9th International RAC Grand Prix of South Africa, was a Formula One motor race held at East London on 29 December 1962. It was the ninth and final race in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 82-lap race was won by Graham Hill driving a BRM, the Englishman taking his first Drivers' Championship in the process, with New Zealander Bruce McLaren and local driver Tony Maggs second and third, respectively, in works Cooper-Climaxes.
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. He was noted for his interest in Jungianism and the Kalahari Bushmen, his experiences during World War II, as well as his relationships with notable figures such as King Charles III and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. After his death, there was controversy over claims that he had exaggerated many aspects of his life, as well as his sexual abuse and impregnation of a 14-year-old girl.
32 Battalion was an elite light infantry battalion of the South African Army founded in 1975, composed of black and white commissioned and enlisted personnel. It was disbanded on 26 March 1993.
The General Dan Pienaar Artillery Regiment is a reserve artillery regiment of the South African Army.
Three churches from the Dutch Reformed Church tradition in South Africa are often mentioned together as "three sister churches". They are the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK), Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NHK), and Reformed Churches in South Africa (GK).
Augustine Van de Vyver was a Belgian-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia from 1889 to 1911.
Johan David van der Vyver was a South African lawyer and academic who was the I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Die Hoërskool Menlopark is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in the suburb of Menlo Park in Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
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The law of persons in South Africa regulates the birth, private-law status and the death of a natural person. It determines the requirements and qualifications for legal subjectivity in South Africa, and the rights and responsibilities that attach to it.
van der Vyver is an Afrikaans surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Hendrik Erasmus "Rassie" van der Dussen is a South African professional cricketer who represents the South Africa national cricket team and plays for Gauteng in domestic cricket. In the 2018 South African Cricket Annual, he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year.
Bertha Vyver was a caretaker for Scottish poet Charles Mackay and the companion of Marie Corelli. From 1875 until his death in 1889, Vyver kept house and nursed Mackay, later caring for her own mother prior to her death. Relieved of her nursing duties, Vyver remained with Corelli encouraging and facilitating her writing career. When Corelli died, Vyver became executor of her literary estate and wrote a biography of the author.
William Eberhardt Bastard, also known as Ebbo Bastard, was a South African rugby union player from Kokstad, Natal. He predominantly played as a flanker and played for Natal and the South Africa national rugby union team. On 14 February 1949 he was shot dead by his wife's ex-husband.
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Daniël Ferdinand van de Vyver also known as "Vandie", was a South African rugby union player.