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Thomas Joubert du Toit (born 5 May 1995) is a South African professional rugby union player for the South Africa national team and Bath Rugby [1] in the Gallagher Premiership. His regular position is prop .
Donald du Toit, FCS., FRCS., is a South African specialist general surgeon, clinician and emeritus professor as well as chief of Anatomy and Histology and previous ad hominem professor of surgery at the University of Stellenbosch. [1] In 1982 he held the post of principal academic surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital (Parow, South Africa).
Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine). [1] Laudanum is prepared by dissolving extracts from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) in alcohol ().
Du Toit recorded this calamity in the poem "O die pyn-gedagte" (literally "Oh the pain-thoughts"). Du Toit was responsible for much of the translation of the Bible into Afrikaans, finishing what his father Stephanus Jacobus du Toit had begun. He also put a huge amount of work into producing poetic versions of the Psalms in Afrikaans. His poetry ...
The Red Cross facilitated Du Toit's wife visiting him in prison on three separate occasions. Captain Wynand du Toit was finally to be released on 7 September 1987 after some 837 days of solitary confinement in an Angolan prison in a complicated prisoner exchange arrangement brokered by Jean-Yves Ollivier. The exchange took place in Maputo ...
An early map drawn by George Paton on the eve of the discovery of diamonds mentions 'Teuzpan' which, when pronounced in the German way, sounds the way local Dutch/Afrikaans-speaking farmers would have pronounced (Du) Toit's Pan. [2] The name refers also to one of the major mines in Kimberley, the Dutoitspan mine.
Du Toit joined the South African Army as an artilleryman in 1924. He completed the British Army Specialist Staff Course in 1936.. During the Second World War, he commanded Divisional artillery in East Africa and North Africa, before commanding the 2nd South African Infantry Brigade in 1942 and the 1st South African Armoured Brigade from 1943 to 1945. [2]
Francois Jacobus du Toit (25 August 1897 - 17 March 1961) was a South African journalist and economist who represented the Union of South Africa as Trade Commissioner in London, and later served as chancellor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.