Ingrid Jonker

January 10, 2024
Poet

Quick Facts

Ingrid Jonker
Full Name Ingrid Jonker
Occupation Poet
Date Of Birth Sep 19, 1933(1933-09-19)
Age 91
Date Of Death July 19, 1965, Three Anchor Bay 1, Cape Town, South Africa
Birthplace Kimberley
Country South Africa
Birth City Northern Cape
Horoscope Capricorn

Ingrid Jonker Biography

Name Ingrid Jonker
Birthday Sep 19
Birth Year 1933
Place Of Birth Kimberley
Home Town Northern Cape
Birth Country South Africa
Birth Sign Capricorn
Parents Abraham Jonker, Beatrice Cilliers
Children(s) Simone Venter

Ingrid Jonker is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on September 19, 1933 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Ingrid Jonker Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Poet
House Living in own house.

Ingrid Jonker is one of the richest Poet from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ingrid Jonker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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Who is Ingrid Jonker Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Jakub Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Ingrid Jonker celebrates birthday on September 19 of every year.

Why did Ingrid Jonker write the child is not dead?

Summary. “The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga” centers on a child who was killed by the police during the anti-pass-laws protests across South Africa. Especially, the Sharpeville massacre stirred Ingrid Jonker to pen down this poem in resistance of the blatant brutality and barbarism against the innocents

Why is Ingrid Jonker an icon?

Ingrid Jonker’s sensitive, humane and forward-looking perspectives have made her a literary icon of a whole new generation of Afrikaners and South Africans, who have re-discovered her relevance in a free and democratic South Africa.

What apartheid law is Ingrid Jonker fighting against in the child?

Jonker wrote against a background of escalating apartheid laws, violent repression of black political activists , and the banning of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress.

How old was Ingrid Jonker when she died?

31 years (1933–1965)

What does veld in Ingrid Jonker's poem mean?

The beauty of the African veld is in stark contrast to the pain suffered by black South Africans seeking freedom and justice. The second stanza echoes the first, with the child symbolizing the passionate longing for freedom amidst violent oppression of black South Africans.

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