Marjorie Wallace dies at 79
Painter Marjorie Wallace, known particularly for her landscape paintings and lively oils of fisher men and women and farm workers, has died in her home in the seaside village of Onrus, in the Western Cape.
Born in Scotland, Wallace came to this country after her marriage to Jan Rabie, an Afrikaans writer, in Paris, in 1955. Although she was not a political activist, Wallace deeply disapproved of apartheid, and according to a friend, she and her husband were subjected to the attention of the security police, and watched.
At their home in Onrus, Wallace and Rabie were the centre of a large group of literary and artistic friends.
