Die Wonder van Afrikaans by Du Buisson, M S (samesteller) - Afrikaans

Born Marthinus Stefanus du Buson in 1913, he was one of twelve children of Daniel du Buson and his wife, Magdel. He matriculated from the Middelburg High School in 1930 and did well in the annual Eisteddfods held in Brakpan. He was active in a range of cultural groups and was involved in organising the 1938 commemoration of the Great Trek and subsequently the celebrations surrounding the opening of the Voortrekker Monument. This would eventually lead to him becoming Secretary of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns and Chairman of the Council of the South African Federation for Opera. In addition he wrote for the Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, contributed to symposiums, wrote textbooks on Afrikaans literature for schools, as well as studies such as Die Wonder van Afrikaans: Bydraes oor die Ontstaan en Groei van Afrikaans tot Volwaardige Wêreldtaal and Die Mens-Godverhousing in die Afrikaanse Poësie (both 1959).

He died in January, 1962.