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.

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16 June 1946

2 February 1990 (aged 43)

Beatified

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