MacGuyver Dean Greyling (born 1 January 1986) was a rugby union player who retired in 2017 at Oyonnax in France. He was educated at Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool.

Playing career

Greyling was one of the stars of the 2004 Craven Week competition, and represented the Blue Bulls’ age-group teams from 2005 to 2007. He made his Super Rugby debut for the franchise in 2008. In October 2010, Greyling was selected to the Springbok squad of 39 players to prepare for the November tour of Europe.

Greylingstad is a town about 100km south-east of Johannesburg, 58km north-west of Standerton and 50km south-east of Heidelberg. The name was first borne by a town established in 1910 about 5km south of the present one and name after a local pioneer Pieter Jacobus Greyling, step-son of Piet Retief. In 1914 the name Greylingstad was transferred to its present site laid out in 1913, replacing the name Willemsdal, after Willem Bezuidenhout, owner of the farm. The original town was vacated. In 1920 a town coucil was established.

Franci Greyling grew up in a house full of children. As the second eldest of seven children, she often invented stories and games for her younger siblings. She was a real bookworm, started making verses early, and writing essays was the most enjoyable homework.

After passing her matric at “Hoërskool Drie Riviere” in Vereeniging, she was a student at the “Burgerlike Beskermingskollege” in George for a year. Here, in addition to marching, shooting, first aid and firefighting, she also learned to type. After this she achieved - in the shade of Potchefstroom’s oak trees - BA and HOD with the majors Afrikaans, Psychology and Biblical Studies. She was actively involved in student life and constantly took photos to develop it herself in the darkroom.

Pieter Johannes Frederik ‘Piet’ Greyling, born 16 May 1942 in Zastron, South Africa, is a South African rugby union player who has represented the national team, the Springboks, 43 times, captaining them once, and scoring 5 tries in total. Greyling has been described as one of the best and toughest flanks, and is best known for his pairing with Jan Ellis in 24 tests.

Early life

Piet Greyling was brought up on a tobacco farm in Mashonaland in then-Rhodesia. At the age of 14 he was sent to Sentraal High School in Bloemfontein, and eventually played for Free State Schools. After briefly attending Potchefstroom Agricultural College, Greyling returned to Rhodesia.

Eduard Greyling (born Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa, 1948) is a retired South African ballet dancer. He is the son of Ferdinand Jacobus Greyling and his wife, Jacomina Nicolasina Heyneman. He matriculated from D.F. Malan High School in Bellville, Cape Town in 1965.

Biography

He first studied with Jennifer Louw, then at the UCT Ballet School and joined CAPAB (since renamed the Cape Town City Ballet Company) in 1967. He danced with the Dutch National Ballet for eighteen months during 1974-75. In 1980, he danced as guest artist, opposite Maina Gielgud, in her ‘Steps, Notes & Squeaks’ at the Old Vic Theatre, London. He also performed as a guest artist with the Bulawayo Ballet Society in Zimbabwe, the Los Angeles Classical Ballet, the NAPAC Ballet Company and the PACT Ballet Company in Pretoria. He enjoyed a famous stage partnership for seventeen years with the ballerina Phyllis Spira.

In recent articles in The Witness, the possible demolition of the historic house of the widow Retief was debated. Because of public pressure, the KwaZulu-Natal Heritage Council decided last week that 225 Church Street, Pietermaritzburg should be preserved. They should be congratulated on this brave decision.

Part of this house once belonged to the wife of Pieter Retief, the Voortrekker leader, after whom Pietermaritzburg was partly named. Sadly, the house of the widow Maritz, wife of Gert Maritz after whom the other half of Pietermaritzburg was named, was not so fortunate a couple of years ago, and
had to bite the dust to make way for McDonalds.