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Johannes Nicholas Malan, better known as Nico Malan, was an attorney, politician and Administrator of the Province of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), 1960-1970. He was born on 8 August 1903 at Fort Beaufort, South Africa, and died there in 1981.[1]

The Nico Malan Theatre Complex in Cape Town, now known as the Artscape Theatre Centre, was named in his honour. A school in Humansdorp, Eastern Cape, is also named after him (Hoërskool Nico Malan High School).

In 1968, Dr. J. N. Malan received the Freedom of the City of Kimberley.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hart, R. 2010. Dr J.N. Malan. Now and Then: Newsletter of the Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape 18(2):7
  2. ^ Hart, R. 2010. Dr J.N. Malan. Now and Then: Newsletter of the Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape 18(2):7