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''[[Di Selfsugtige Skoolmeester]]'' ("the selfish schoolmaster") is a farce by [[J.H.H. de Waal]] (1871-1937) and [[P. de Waal]] ().

==The original text==

[[P. de Waal]], the brother of playwright [[J.H.H. de Waal]], had written a one-act farce called ''[['n Les oor di Tier]]'', similar to his brother's piece called ''[['n Les]]'', for the [[CJV]] of Cape Town's [[Nieuwe Kerk]]. The brothers subsequently combined the two plays to create a longer play, which they initially called ''[[Di Selfsugtige Skoolmeester]]''.

Written in the patois of young people in the Cape at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, the play tells of a teacher is trying to teach a group of unruly children. He draws an image of a tiger on the blackboard and asks the boys to identify the animal. The answers received are meaningless and the boys keep playing pranks throughout the piece.

The longer play was published published as ''[[Di Selfsugtige Skoolmeester]]'' in 1903, then it appeared as ''[[Die Selfsugtige Onderwyser]]'' in the journal ''[[Ons Land]]'' on 10 January, 1903, and then, in an extensively altered version, in as ''[[Di selfsugtige onderwyser]]'' in ''[[De Goede Hoop]]'' (during in April 1904 ). The latter version was then published as ''[[Die selfsugtige meester]]'' ("the selfish master") in the collection ''[[Stompies: ’n bundel stories, rympies en toneelspelletjies in die Afrikaanse taal]]'' () compiled by [[J.H.H. de Waal]] and published by [[HAUM]]/[[De Bussy]] in 1909.

==Translations and adaptations==

Translated into English as ''[[The Selfish Schoolteacher]]'' by an unnamed author.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1914: Performed in English (as ''[[The Selfish Schoolteacher]]'') by the [[CJV Warmwater]] near Oudtshoorn.

== Sources ==

[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205

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 ==The original text==
-[[P. de Waal]], the brother of playwright [[J.H.H. de Waal]], had written a one-act farce called ''[['n Les oor di Tier]]'', similar to his brother's piece called ''[['n Les]]'', for the [[CJV]] of Cape Town's [[Nieuwe Kerk]]. The brothers subsequently combined the two plays to create a longer play, which they initially called ''[[Di Selfsugtige Skoolmeester]]''.
+[[P. de Waal]], the brother of playwright [[J.H.H. de Waal]], had written a one-act farce similar to his brother's piece called called ''[['n Les oor di Tier]]'', for the [[CJV]] of Cape Town's [[Nieuwe Kerk]]. The brothers subsequently combined the two plays to create a longer play, which they initially called ''[[Di Selfsugtige Skoolmeester]]''.
 Written in the patois of young people in the Cape at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, the play tells of a teacher is trying to teach a group of unruly children. He draws an image of a tiger on the blackboard and asks the boys to identify the animal. The answers received are meaningless and the boys keep playing pranks throughout the piece.

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 == Sources ==
-[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
+https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Hofmeyr_de_Waal
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]