Introduction

Biography

Marianne is the daugh­ter of Rev­er­end Jean Raath.

She earned her BMus de­gree at Uni­ver­si­ty of the Or­ange Free State, Bloem­fon­tein, in 1980, as well as a Di­plo­ma in Sac­red Mu­sic.

After mar­ri­age, she was an or­gan­ist at va­ri­ous church­es, and still serves in her lo­cal con­gre­ga­tion in the South Cape.

She helped com­pile a new hym­nal for Peo­ple of the Co­ve­nant in South Af­ri­ca in 2005, dur­ing which she trans­lat­ed ex­ist­ing hymns and wrote new ones.