Daniël Francois Malherbe or (as he is generally known) D.F. Malherbe (May 28, 1881 in Dal Josafat in Cape Colony, now Western Cape Province, South Africa – April 12, 1969 in Bloemfontein, in the then Orange Free State province, now Free State Province), was an Afrikaans-language novelist, poet, dramatist, and scholar.