Ken Gampu

Ken Gampu

Ken Gampu (born 28 August 1929 in Germiston, South Africa; died 4 November 2003 in Vosloorus, South Africa) was a South African actor. Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday (1958). His big break came in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys. The same year, he had a significant role in Cornel Wilde's African adventure film, The Naked Prey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Gampu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Ken Gampu
  • Popularity: 1.0027
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-08-28
  • Place of Birth: Germiston, South Africa
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Ken Gampu Movies

  • 1980
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    The Gods Must Be Crazy

    The Gods Must Be Crazy

    7.259 1980 HD

    A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

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  • 1990
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    American Ninja 4: The Annihilation

    American Ninja 4: The Annihilation

    5.2 1990 HD

    The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.

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  • 1985
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    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines

    5.421 1985 HD

    Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.

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  • 1992
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    Lethal Ninja

    Lethal Ninja

    4.1 1992 HD

    An American ninja's wife is held hostage by a sadistic Nazi chemist on an Asian island. He teams up with an African-American ninja to rescue her.

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  • 1987
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    John Ross: An African Adventure

    John Ross: An African Adventure

    1 1987 HD

    Zulu tribesmen escort a shipwrecked 19th-century English sailor on a 600-mile round trip for supplies.

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  • 1990
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    Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG

    Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG

    5.7 1990 HD

    Kwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Bradick D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Duan Robertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their dead father.

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  • 1965
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    The Naked Prey

    The Naked Prey

    6.6 1965 HD

    A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.

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  • 1987
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    City of Blood

    City of Blood

    3.625 1987 HD

    A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.

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  • 1976
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    Black Trash

    Black Trash

    4.8 1976 HD

    A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.

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  • 1981
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    Kill and Kill Again

    Kill and Kill Again

    4.429 1981 HD

    Dr. Horatio Kane has been kidnapped, and is being forced to create an army of martial artists who will help take over the world. His daughter, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of Steve Chase (and a few of his friends) to rescue her father before it's too late.

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  • 1999
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    A Reasonable Man

    A Reasonable Man

    4.5 1999 HD

    With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

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  • 1997
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    Fools

    Fools

    1 1997 HD

    Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history in the Afrikaner language and grudgingly organizes the picnic for National Day, which commemorates the Boers' massacre of the Zulu nation... When Zani, the rape victim's brother, returns from Swaziland where he won a place in school, he is determined to change everything. In the small hours, in the waiting room at Johannesburg station, he runs into Prof. Zamani, who's spent the night on the town. They travel back together to the harsh reality of the township. In due course, Zamani regains some of his pride and Zani, inevitably, loses some of his...under the gaze of the women, who never renounced their dignity.

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  • 2001
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    Askari

    Askari

    5.5 2001 HD

    Set on a game reserve in Africa. Askari is an angry old elephant, the only survivor of the "A' family group which has been anhilitated in a government cull and he has turned rogue. Involved in the culling are Patrick Khumalo, a corrupt government official and Ribshaw, an unscrupulous white poacher accompanied by Ndhlovu, an old African tracker who is being blackmailed by Ribshaw. Anxious to save the elephants are game warden Joss Mckinley and his conservationist wife Paula who is studying and monitoring various family groups of elephants. When Paula's sixteen year old niece Emma Crawshay is orphaned she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at Morena Game Park. She feels alienated but is gradually drawn into her aunt's passion for her work and her favourite elephant family the 'O' group, in particular a calf named Ollie.

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  • 1978
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    Slavers

    Slavers

    3 1978 HD

    A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.

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  • 1975
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    Forever Young, Forever Free

    Forever Young, Forever Free

    7.9 1975 HD

    A poignant tale of friendship and resilience between two South African children, Tsepo and Jannie, set against the contrasting backdrops of rural Africa and 1970s New York City. Their bond faces trials as they navigate the challenges of injury and the quest for healing.

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  • 1982
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    Claws

    Claws

    5.5 1982 HD

    Set on a lonely South African farm, in the 1920’s. The film revolves around a young boy who is forced into manhood when his father is injured in a riding accident and he is left to fend for himself. The boy is terrorized by an unseen animal.

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  • 1974
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    The Virgin Goddess

    The Virgin Goddess

    4.9 1974 HD

    Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.

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  • 1979
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    Game for Vultures

    Game for Vultures

    4.4 1979 HD

    The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.

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  • 1973
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    Joe Bullet

    Joe Bullet

    5.1 1973 HD

    When local soccer team The Eagles fall prey to a series of onslaughts from a mysterious gangster only a week before the championship final, the team turns to the one man that can help save their chances at victory – Joe Bullet (Ken Gampu). Joe will have to battle against villainous henchmen, escape booby-trap bombs and bring his martial arts expertise to the fore in order to survive an attack from a deadly assassin. In the end he will have to infiltrate the mysterious gangster’s hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eagles’ two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but he’s the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet!

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  • 1997
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    Aristotle's Plot

    Aristotle's Plot

    5.8 1997 HD

    Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies.

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  • 1985
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    Van der Merwe PI

    Van der Merwe PI

    1 1985 HD

    South African beauty and former Miss World, Anneline Kriel stars in this action comedy about Van der Merwe, a struggling private eye. The detective’s bad luck seems set to change when drug lord Jack Barnard hires him to find Barnard’s missing girlfriend, Angel Labuschagne.

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  • 1982
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    Bullet on the Run

    Bullet on the Run

    1 1982 HD

    Bullet is back, and this time he will have to stake his entire reputation on the line as he goes deep undercover in prison to unfold the mystery of a police corruption ring, being run by one of the most wanted mob bosses in the country, a man known only as Snake.

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  • 1988
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    Bush Shrink

    Bush Shrink

    1 1988 HD

    In an unstable African country, US psychiatrist Martin Cypher teams up with a street-smart poacher to save his patient and her uncle Kingsley, who runs a diamond mine, from some rebels led by white mercenaries, who took them for ransom.

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  • 1964
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    Dingaka

    Dingaka

    6 1964 HD

    An African tribesman seeks revenge against the people who murdered his daughter.

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  • 1987
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    Scavengers

    Scavengers

    1 1987 HD

    A college professor and his ex-girlfriend find themselves being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and an African drug smuggler. Seems they have inadvertently gotten information that would show how the KGB gave the CIA state secrets in return for a cut of the African drug-smuggling market.

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  • 1988
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    Act of Piracy

    Act of Piracy

    3.3 1988 HD

    A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...

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  • 1978
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    The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese

    6.8 1978 HD

    A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

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  • 1979
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    Zulu Dawn

    Zulu Dawn

    6.1 1979 HD

    In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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  • 1982
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    The Chain Gang Killings

    The Chain Gang Killings

    1 1982 HD

    Two prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.

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  • 1980
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    Flashpoint Africa

    Flashpoint Africa

    1 1980 HD

    A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.

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  • 1989
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    Enemy Unseen

    Enemy Unseen

    4 1989 HD

    A couple of young scientists, Mel Noble and Roxeanne Tangent, travel to an island in Africa thought to be deserted in search of crocodile life, when African Natives storm the camp and kidnap Roxeanne. Her father, Gordon hires Steiger and his team of investigators to track down the natives that worship crocodiles as sacred animals. The problem is: they can't be seen. With natives in the jungles and crocodiles in the waters, Steiger and his crew must fight to survive and save Roxeanne from being sacrificed in a gruesome ritual with an "Enemy Unseen."

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  • 1988
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    Quiet Thunder

    Quiet Thunder

    3 1988 HD

    A bush pilot and a senator's wife try to survive in the jungles of Africa after witnessing an assassination.

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  • 1986
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    Jake Speed

    Jake Speed

    4.4 1986 HD

    Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.

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  • 1994
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    Cyborg Cop II

    Cyborg Cop II

    4.351 1994 HD

    Jack, a cop, loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue sending the man to death row. What Jack doesn't know is that the terrorist will be taken and turned into a cyborg for the "Anti-Terrorist Group".

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  • 1977
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    Mister Deathman

    Mister Deathman

    3.625 1977 HD

    Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.

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  • 1979
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    King Solomon's Treasure

    King Solomon's Treasure

    4.2 1979 HD

    Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.

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  • 1977
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    Target of an Assassin

    Target of an Assassin

    4.9 1977 HD

    An ailing African leader is kidnapped by a nurse after being admitted to hospital, and finds himself stuck between two men who have different ideas of what to do with him.

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  • 1966
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    All the Way to Paris

    All the Way to Paris

    1 1966 HD

    When the Russian and American delegates at a global peace conference can't compromise on a conflict, they find themselves tricked into settling the matter with a walking race from Athens to Paris, having hilarious misadventures along the way.

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  • 1997
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    Black Velvet Band

    Black Velvet Band

    6.5 1997 HD

    Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.

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  • 1987
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    Operation Hit Squad

    Operation Hit Squad

    1 1987 HD

    A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.

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  • 1972
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    Rogue Lion

    Rogue Lion

    4 1972 HD

    In South Africa a new young ranger is transferred to a troubled game reserve. He struggles to be accepted by, and help, his boss, fending off poachers and intruding natives, and gets involved with a poacher's daughter he knew from university.

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  • 1982
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    Tuxedo Warrior

    Tuxedo Warrior

    4 1982 HD

    A jaded soldier-of-fortune who runs a bar in Zimbabwe aids a bank-robbing couple in their attempt to evade the authorities.

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  • 1964
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    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    6.968 1964 HD

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.

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  • 1977
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    Les Diamants du Président

    Les Diamants du Président

    5 1977 HD

    Georges Lancier is a former mercenary for hire. After he retires from business, he gets trapped in a complex conspiracy involving a diamond heist, international financiers, and struggle for political power in an imaginary African country.

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  • 1985
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    Morenga

    Morenga

    1 1985 HD

    Gottschalk and Wenstrup are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries.

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  • 1993
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    Daisy de Melker

    Daisy de Melker

    9 1993 HD

    The infamous poisoner, Daisy Louisa de Melker (née Hancorn-Smith) was born on 1 July 1886 near Grahamstown. Daisy was charged with the murder of her two previous husbands and her son. Her trial began in October 1932 before Judge Greenberg in Johannesburg. Daisy was not found guilty of the murder of her two previous husbands, but she was found guilty of the murder of her son. On 30 December 1932, Daisy was hanged in Pretoria Central Prison, without ever pleading guilty or showing any remorse. Daisy was the second woman in South Africa to be hanged.

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