When Magdalena Johanna Gertruida - Lenie Venter was born on 8 December 1905, her father, Jan Hendrik Lodewyk Venter, was 31 and her mother, Anna Maria Van Tonder, was 32. She married Dietloff Ziegfried Vermaak on 21 October 1924, in Transvaal, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died about 1957, in Sterkfontein, Hwange, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, at the age of 53.
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British Parliament enacts the South Africa Act, proposed constitution of Union of South Africa.
Self-governing Union of South Africa established within British Commonwealth.
Communist Party of South Africa established (after 1953, the South African Communist Party).
German: from a shortened vernacular form of the Italian personal name Bonaventura.
Afrikaans: occupational name from Dutch venter ‘street-trader’.
English: variant of Ventre .
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