African Famous Girl Names with Letter S

Is a former tennis player from South Africa who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships an

Is a former tennis player from South Africa who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Her best Grand Slam singles result was reaching the 1960 Wimbledon final, losing to Maria Bueno 8–6, 6–0. She was the runner-up at the 1959 U.S. Clay Court Championships, losing to Sally Moore in the final.

Was a Kimberley, South African-born writer. In her lifetime, she was one of the most popular English

Was a Kimberley, South African-born writer. In her lifetime, she was one of the most popular English-language novelists in South Africa. She also wrote biographies of Cecil Rhodes and General Jan Smuts.

Pieterse started acting in 2002, when she was given a role as one of the Davis children on the Warne

Pieterse started acting in 2002, when she was given a role as one of the Davis children on the Warner Brothers's canceled remake of the popular show Family Affair. In 2004, she appeared in Stargate SG-1 as well as Fox's House. In 2005, she appeared in her first film The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl. She appeared in a short-lived series called Wanted with her former Family Affair co-star, Gary Cole.Pieterse is an only child. She is home-schooled and wishes to complete studies early to pursue her acting career.[citation needed] Her interests include chatting with her friends, Taylor Dooley and Taylor Lautner, and singing and dancing.[citation needed]

A South African vocalist and composer born in Johannesburg, raised in Cape Town, and now based in Ne

A South African vocalist and composer born in Johannesburg, raised in Cape Town, and now based in New York City.As a youth, Sathima Bea Benjamin first performed popular music in talent contests at the local cinema (bioscope) during intermission. By the 1950s she was singing at various nightclubs, community dances and social events, performing with notable Cape Town pianists Tony Schilder and Henry February, amongst others. She built her repertoire watching British and American movies and transcribing lyrics from songs heard on the radio, where she discovered Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald. These musicians would come to influence her singing style, notably in terms of light phrasing and clear diction.

Is a Tunisian female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and has been ranked

Is a Tunisian female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and has been ranked as high as 75th in the world (July 16, 2001). She has had most of her success in ITF tournaments, winning eleven singles tournaments and seventeen doubles tournaments. As of October 6, 2008, she is 185th in the WTA singles & 69th in the WTA doubles rankings.

Is a South Africa cricketer. She has made one Test and 15 Women's One Day International appearances

Is a South Africa cricketer. She has made one Test and 15 Women's One Day International appearances for South Africa since 2007.

Is an international cricketer who made 12 One Day International appearances for South Africa nationa

Is an international cricketer who made 12 One Day International appearances for South Africa national women's cricket team between 2004 and 2005.

Is an international cricketer who has made 30 One Day International and 8 Twenty20 International app

Is an international cricketer who has made 30 One Day International and 8 Twenty20 International appearances for South Africa national women's cricket team since 2003. She was given the captaincy of her national side in 2007, aged 21, but after an acciden

Is a screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood in South Africa und

Is a screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood in South Africa under the apartheid. She is the daughter of the late South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She also wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire, which is also a historical film about apartheid, and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.[1][2]

Is an English native South African writer of short stories and plays and the wife of South African p

Is an English native South African writer of short stories and plays and the wife of South African playwright Athol Fugard.She met playwright Athol Fugard when she acted in one of his plays. In September 1956, she married Fugard and adopted his surname.[1]A Revolutionary Woman, her best-known novel, which takes place in the 1920s in the Karoo district of South Africa, tells the story of a female disciple of Mahatma Gandhi who gets entangled in a rape case between a young colored boy and a young retarded Boer girl.

Is a South African post-war tennis player. She is also known under her married name, Sheila Piercey-

Is a South African post-war tennis player. She is also known under her married name, Sheila Piercey-Summers.Along with her compatriot Eric Sturgess, she won three mixed doubles titles, at the French Open in 1947 and 1949 and at Wimbledon in 1949.

Is a South African figure skater. She is the ten time national champion. She placed 24th at the 1998

Is a South African figure skater. She is the ten time national champion. She placed 24th at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Is a South African singer.Sibongile Khumalo was born in Soweto and guided by her father, Khabi Mngom

Is a South African singer.Sibongile Khumalo was born in Soweto and guided by her father, Khabi Mngoma, a professor of music, where she studied violin, singing, drama and dance. She has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in music from the University of Zululand and BA Honors from University of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 Khumalo won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award at the Grahamstown Festival.[1]Khumalo was the first person to sing the title role of Princess Magogo in the first African opera Princess Magogo ka Dinuzulu.

Is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. She was born at La Marsa, near Tunis and went to

Is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. She was born at La Marsa, near Tunis and went to France to study at the university in Toulouse, where she took a degree in philosophy. In 1980, she became a reporter for the independent journal Le Phare. When the journal stopped publication, she became political chief at Maghreb, and then at Réalités. When Maghreb ceased publication because of the food riots in 1983, she became editor-in-chief of Gazette Touristique and founded l'Hebdo Touristique. At the same time, she was overseeing the opposition newspaper El Mawkif.

Is a South African figure skater.

Is a South African figure skater.

A Xhosa pop singer in South Africa. With her unique combination of jazz, pop, and traditional music,

A Xhosa pop singer in South Africa. With her unique combination of jazz, pop, and traditional music, she has been hailed as the "new Miriam Makeba".In 2005, Simphiwe Dana won the "Best Newcomer" award at the 11th South African Music Awards with her first album "Zandisile". Two years later, she was named the "Best Female Artist", with the song "The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street", at the 13th South African Music Awards.She schooled at the Vela Private School in Mthatha, from which she matriculated in 1997. Her tertiary education pursued her interests in graphic design, and she successfully studied for her National Diploma in IT at the Wits Technikon, Johannesburg. Dana’s music draws strongly on her upbringing in the Transkei, and she sites the powerful singing of her mother as an inspiration for her and her siblings, and ultimately as a key motivator in her resolve to pursue her musical career.

Is a South African writer.She published her autobiography To My Children's Children in 1990. In 1998

Is a South African writer.She published her autobiography To My Children's Children in 1990. In 1998, she published Mother to Mother, a fictionalized account of the Amy Biehl killing, which she adapted to a play. This was performed at the Baxter Theatre complex in late 2009 and the film rights to the novel were acquired by Type A Films.[1] She has also written autobiographies and short story collections. Her novel Beauty's Gift was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa)[2]. She retired from the United Nations in 2003 and currently lives in South Africa.

Is a South African figure skater. She is the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 season South African junior nat

Is a South African figure skater. She is the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 season South African junior national champion and has competed on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

Is an Afrikaner singer-songwriter and actress.She later obtained a diploma cum laude in Teaching aft

Is an Afrikaner singer-songwriter and actress.She later obtained a diploma cum laude in Teaching after three years at the Johannesburg (Goudstad) College of Education. She gave up teaching to pursue music after meeting her future husband, FC Hamman[2] . The couple married in 1976 and started a family, their youngest son later developed an extreme hearing impairment in 1993. Herholdt subsequently decided to start a school for hearing and linguistically impaired Afrikaans children, this was housed in the pre-primary section of Bryanston Primary School. This resulted in Herjholdt returning to teach for a period of time.

Was a South African first class cricketer. Born in Port Elizabeth, he played 22 matches for Western

Was a South African first class cricketer. Born in Port Elizabeth, he played 22 matches for Western Province cricket team, scoring 484 runs at 14.23.

Was a popular South African author of Afrikaans youth novels.[1]Die Meisies van Maasdorp ("The Girls

Was a popular South African author of Afrikaans youth novels.[1]Die Meisies van Maasdorp ("The Girls of Maasdorp") - the first book in her Maasdorp series - was published in 1932. Fifteen other books in this series followed. Blakemore also wrote the twenty-book Keurboslaan series (under the male pseudonym Theunis Krogh). She also wrote books under the names Analize Biermann, Stella Owen and Diem Grimbeeck.

Is a South African cricketer and the current captain of the South African national women's cricket t

Is a South African cricketer and the current captain of the South African national women's cricket team. An off spinner, Loubser has played 1 Test and 17 One Day Internationals, taking a total of 26 wickets in the two formats. After captaining the Boland

Is a South African javelin thrower, who has won gold at the Commonwealth Games and African Champions

Is a South African javelin thrower, who has won gold at the Commonwealth Games and African Championships. She also made one Women's Test cricket and 17 Women's One Day International appearances for South Africa between 2000 and 2002.

Is a former South Africa cricketer. She made two Test and 18 Women's One Day International appearanc

Is a former South Africa cricketer. She made two Test and 18 Women's One Day International appearances for South Africa between 2002 and 2004.

Is a South Africa cricketer. She has made one Test and 19 Women's One Day International appearances

Is a South Africa cricketer. She has made one Test and 19 Women's One Day International appearances for South Africa since 2005.