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Kristo Pienaar
South African botanist and author. Pienaar was professor of botany at the University of the Western Cape and at one time mayor of Bellville. He authored many works on horticulture, such as The South African What Flower Is That , published by C.Struik (1984). Grow South African Plants , Struik (1985) and Kristo Pienaar Introduces the Ultimate Southern African Gardening Book, Southern Book Publishers (1995). Pienaar was also the presenter of popular television programmes on nature in South Africa, Veldfokus and 50/50. Kristo Pienaar died in 1996. His memory is honoured by the Kristo Pienaar Environmental Education Centre at Tygerberg, Cape Town.


 * http://etd.sun.ac.za/jspui/bitstream/10019/440/1/Melvilh.pdf at 4.3