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Maria Margaretha Koopmans-de Wet (18 March 1834, Cape Town – 2 August 1906, Cape Town) was a campaigner for Afrikaner rights, cultural leader, patriotic benefactor, renowned Cape hostess, patron of the arts and South African philanthropist.[1]
Marie Koopmans-de Wet | |
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Born | Maria Margaretha de Wet 18 March 1834 |
Died | 2 August 1906 (72) Cape Town, Cape Province |
Burial place | Wynberg, Cape Town, Cape Province |
Nationality | South African |
Spouse | Johan Christoffel Koopmans (m. 1864 d. 1880) |
Parent(s) | Johannes Augustus de Wet (father) Adriana Dorothea Horak (mother) |
She was the daughter of Johannes de Wet and Adriana Horak and married Johan Christoffel Koopmans. She was an influential member of the wealthy Boer elite in Cape Town. Her house was a center of the colony's high society, frequented by the British governor.
She is known as an activist in favor of the preservation of the Afrikaans language and culture during the period of the British Empire in South Africa.
During the Second Boer War, she worked to approve the conditions of the Boer women and children who had been interned by the British. She attracted the attention of Queen Victoria to the issue, and was herself placed in house arrest because of it.
Her house became the Koopmans-de Wet House Museum.
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