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South African Leibbrandt Family Tree

Descendants of C12342
Violet Eileen
born: 1903
died: 1956 Natal
lived: ±53 years
She and her husband Michiel were very active in their community; when Princess Alice of Greece visited South Africa in the 1930s, she stayed with them for a while. Violet wrote several books on spiritualism which are all still in the National Archive in Pretoria. They later moved from the Eastern Transvaal to Pretoria, and finally to Durban where Violet set up a centre for meditation and spiritualism in Essenwood Drive. They had one child, Michael John Lister Liebenberg, who was born in 1935 and died in 1997. This information was kindly provided by his daughter Louise Liebenberg, Assistant Editor of Weekend Post
ID: C12342

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Ancestors:

Michiel Liebenberg
A South African, he qualified at Edinburgh University and specialised in tropical diseases like malaria. He was based in the Nelspruit area, at one stage being the only doctor for the entire Kruger National Park and doing most of his calls on horseback. He was also credited in the 1930s for his work in the treatment of malaria in the Eastern Transvaal area, even having a street named after him in Nelspruit.

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