When Wessel Johannes Pienaar was born on 15 June 1943, in Cape Province, South Africa, his father, Soloman Johannes Pienaar, was 30 and his mother, Cornelia Aletta 'Baby' Meyer, was 25. He married Maria Cornelia Olivier on 28 November 1968, in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 30 March 1978, in Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa, at the age of 34.
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Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.
Suppression of Communism Act bans anti-apartheid activities. Communist Party of South Africa disbands (reemerges in 1953 as South African Commnunist Party).
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act strengthens apartheid in public places. Bantu Education Act limits black education. Communist Party of South Africa reactivated as South African Communist Party (SACP).
Dutch and German: from a pet form of the personal name Werner .
German: habitational name from Wessel in Saxony.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Vesel , and also an Americanized form of a homonymous Slovak surname, which probably originates from German Wessel (see above), and of Czech and Slovak Veselý (see Vesely ). Compare Wessell and Vessel .
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