Zacharias ''Jack/Zach'' Coetzee

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Zacharias ''Jack/Zach'' Coetzee

Also Known As: "Jack"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Prince Albert, Central Karoo DC, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: June 30, 1988 (75)
Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Gerrit Maxwell Coetzee and Magdalena Catherina Coetzee
Husband of Vera Hildred Marie Wehmeyer
Father of J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003 and David Keith Coetzee
Brother of Constance ''Connie'' Kloppers
Half brother of Irene Linda Coetzee; Stanley Maxwell Buller Coetzee; Leonore ''Lynne'' Coetzee; Gerald Zacharias ''Son/Sonny'' Coetzee; Zacharias ''Jack'' Coetzee and 6 others

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About Zacharias ''Jack/Zach'' Coetzee

[JM Coetzee was] Born in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, on 9 February 1940 to Afrikaner parents,[5][6] his father, Zacharias Coetzee, was an occasional lawyer, government employee, and his mother, Vera Coetzee (born Wehmeyer), a schoolteacher.[7][8] The family spoke English at home, but J M spoke Afrikaans with other relatives.[7] He is descended from early Dutch immigrants to South Africa in the 17th century,[9][10] while his mother was a descendant of German and Polish immigrants.[2][11]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee

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Zacharias ''Jack/Zach'' Coetzee's Timeline

1912
September 29, 1912
Prince Albert, Central Karoo DC, Western Cape, South Africa
1940
February 9, 1940
Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
1943
April 8, 1943
Johannesburg, South Africa
1988
June 30, 1988
Age 75
Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa