Bodemvas

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Bodemvas is a dramatisation by Paul de Groot of the Afrikaans novel of the same name by Susanna du Pré van Rooyen Bruwer, published in 1929 by Nasionale Pers in Cape Town. It deals with the issue of Afrikaans-English "interracial strife", as it was known.

Performance history in South Africa

1932: Produced by De Groot in association with the Stellenbosch University Dramatic Society and starred De Groot and Yvonne Liebenberg, with Maria van Dyk, P.J. Loots, Margaret Webb, Gideon Boshoff, Nic Laubscher, J. Scholtz and Elsa Dreyer. Opening on 26 April 1932, it closed shortly after, having played only Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl.

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