Die Watertoring
Die Watertoring ("The water tower") is an Afrikaans one-act radio play by Kobus Louw (1945-1983).
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The original text
A radio drama about the traumatic effects on a young schoolboy of an accident one night on a windmill.
First broadcast on the Afrikaans service of the SABC in 1969, and later re-recorded and broadcast a few more times.
The text published in the collections Voetlig 2 (eds P.J. du Toit and Temple Hauptfleisch, Haum, 1983) and Drie... Twee.. Een. (ed. P.J. du Toit, Academica, 1989).
Translations and adaptations
Broadcast history in South Africa
1969: First broadcast on the Afrikaans service of the SABC.
Sources
The radio text found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's radio archives and now held in the ESAT repository held at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Published text and notes in Voetlig 2 (eds P.J. du Toit and Temple Hauptfleisch, Haum, 1983: pp 68-100)
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