# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benedict-daswa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:45:08.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benedict-daswa"
name: "Benedict Daswa"
slug: "benedict-daswa"
description: "Benedict Daswa, was a South African school teacher and principal. He was given the name of \"Samuel\" by his parents when he started to attend school and assumed the name \"Benedict\" upon his conversion to Catholicism. A local mob murdered him after he refused to pay support for anti–Christian superstition."
tagline: "Catholic martyr (b. 1946, d. 1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Benedict_Daswa.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1946-06-16"
deathDate: "1990-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.956805333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Daswa"
    title: "Benedict Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedykt_Daswa"
    title: "Benedykt Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_Daswa"
    title: "Bento Daswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19288905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump