Toek Blignaut

Blignaut was born in Bloemfontein in 1922 as Johanna Marthina Sophia Venter.

Her parents owned a farm in the Free State and she attended school near the Kaffer River.

Initially, she worked as a freelance but she was offered a permanent position at Rooi Rose magazine.

[1] Her most popular book was Donker op Nebo (1970), her first written in Afrikaans.

She also conducted the first interview granted with the Rain Queen Mokope Modjadji.