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Peter Veldsman (January 12, 1942 – April 16, 2024) was a South African chef, restaurateur, and food personality.

Early life
Born in Ladismith, Little Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa, on 12 January 1942. His parents were farmers. His mother – the chef at the Royal Hotel in Ladismith - got international celebrity status when the Royal Automobile Club of England crowned her as the second-best chef of the Union of South Africa. The first prize for that year went to the Carlton Hotel, Johannesburg and the third prize to the Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town – both top-notch five-star hotels – and between them, as the winner of the second prize, was chef Mrs. Veldsman from a very small farming village in the Klein-Karoo, 300 kilometers away from Cape Town.