in 1940. A well-known artist, she has been living in Namibia since 1967. Since the mid-1980s she has exhibited widely both in South Africa and Namibia and has also taken part in some group shows in Europe. Her work was also featured on the 1995 Johannesburg Biennale. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships. Maya Fowler, a novelist, was born in Cape Town in 1980. She started her schooling in Stellenbosch, but spent most of her childhood in Graaff-Reinet, where drought and a harsh landscape fostered an appreciation for beauty that resides in many forms and the tiniest things. Maya holds BA and MA (Linguistics) degrees from the University of Stellenbosch, and she works as deputy editor of Edgars Club Magazine Sonia Doubell (1981) is a London-based actress, model and singer. A Bond girl in the James Bond film Die Another Day starring Pierce Brosnan. She attended Union High School for a short spell. She has performed live on the British television show, Top of the Pops. Also the lead singer of dance-music group Dark Monk, whose debut single made it to number one on the German dance charts. Madelene Van Aardt (1896-1982) was a composer who was born in Graaff-Reinet. She was one of the few women to compose songs in the Afrikaans language. Isobel Dixon (1969) was born in Umtata but raised in Graaff-Reinet. Her father, previously the Dean of Umtata Cathedral, taught at Union High School where Isobel matriculated in 1987. Isobel is the author of two books, Weather Eye (Carapace 2001) and A Fold in the Map (UK: Salt 2007; SA: Jacana 2007). Weather Eye won the unpublished section of the Sanlam Prize in South Africa in 2000 and the Olive Schreiner Prize, administered by the English Academy of South Africa, in 2004. A Fold in the Map looks back, in the first instance, to South Africa from Scotland and England, while in the second, is a reflection on the authors late and much loved father, his illness and death, and also about her four sisters, and her mother, the women who loved him. Isobel has also had poems published in Ask for It by Name and Unfold. She lives with her husband in Cambridge. Economics Anton Rupert (4 October 1916 – 18 January 2006) was an Afrikaner-South African entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist. He was born and raised in Graaff-Reinet and was educated