Nico Malan

Johannes Nicolas 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 in 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.^[1]

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