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 Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] and [[Herman Binge]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written by Elmarie Botha and a range of individuals and directed by [[Regardt van den Bergh]] and a large team of writers,  it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Kolonel Piet van der Bijl" ("Die Byl"),[[Lika Berning]] as "Kaptein Lena Evans", [[Milan Murray]] as "Advokaat Nicki Swanepoel" and [[Marvin-Lee Beukes]] as "Kaptein Juan Stuurman".
+Broadcast on [[KykNET]] ([[DStv]] channel 144) as well as on [[Showmax]], the series ran for 6 seasons (57 episodes) from 2016 to 2025.
 (For more details see the [[IMDb]] website[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7993644/] and/or the [[kykNET]] website entry on the programme[https://www.dstv.com/kyknet/af-za/program/die-byl])

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 ==The original text==
-The series, based on real detective Piet Byleveld, follows the life and work of Piet van Bijl (colloquially referred to as "Byl", i.e. "axe"), a brilliant sleuth who specialises in tracking down serial killers.
+Based on real detective Piet Byleveld, it is a crime series set in Cape Town, in a fictional elite unit of the South African Police Service's violent crime division, with the brilliant sleuth "Piet van Bijl" (colloquially referred to as "Byl", i.e. "axe"), as central figure.
 Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] and [[Herman Binge]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written by Elmarie Botha and a range of individuals and directed by [[Regardt van den Bergh]] and a large team of writers,  it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Kolonel Piet van der Bijl" ("Die Byl"),[[Lika Berning]] as "Kaptein Lena Evans", [[Milan Murray]] as "Advokaat Nicki Swanepoel" and [[Marvin-Lee Beukes]] as "Kaptein Juan Stuurman".
-Broadcast on the [[kykNET]] channel, the series ran for 6 seasons (57 episodes) between and 2025.
+Broadcast on [[KykNET]] ([[DStv]] channel 144) as well as on [[Showmax]]. he series ran for 6 seasons (57 episodes) between and 2025.
 (For more details see the [[IMDb]] website[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7993644/] and/or the [[kykNET]] website entry on the programme[https://www.dstv.com/kyknet/af-za/program/die-byl])

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 ==The original text==
-The series, based on real detective Piet Byleveld, follows the life and work of Piet van Bijl (colloquially referred to as "Die Byl", i.e. "the axe"), a brilliant sleuth who specialises in tracking down serial killers.
+The series, based on real detective Piet Byleveld, follows the life and work of Piet van Bijl (colloquially referred to as "Byl", i.e. "axe"), a brilliant sleuth who specialises in tracking down serial killers.
-Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] and [[Herman Binge]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written and directed by a range of individuals, it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Kolonel Piet van der Bijl" ("Die Byl"),[[Lika Berning]] as "Kaptein Lena Evans", [[Milan Murray]] as "Advokaat Nicki Swanepoel" and [[Marvin-Lee Beukes]] as "Kaptein Juan Stuurman".
+Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] and [[Herman Binge]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written by Elmarie Botha and a range of individuals and directed by [[Regardt van den Bergh]] and a large team of writers,  it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Kolonel Piet van der Bijl" ("Die Byl"),[[Lika Berning]] as "Kaptein Lena Evans", [[Milan Murray]] as "Advokaat Nicki Swanepoel" and [[Marvin-Lee Beukes]] as "Kaptein Juan Stuurman".
-Broadcast on the [[kykNET]] channel, the first season released in South Africa on July 12, 201, going on to the sixth series in 2025
+Broadcast on the [[kykNET]] channel, the series ran for 6 seasons (57 episodes) between and 2025.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ==The original text==
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 The series, based on real detective Piet Byleveld, follows the life and work of Piet van Bijl (colloquially referred to as "Die Byl", i.e. "the axe"), a brilliant sleuth who specialises in tracking down serial killers.
-Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written and directed by a range of individuals, it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Kolonel Piet van der Bijl" ("Die Byl"),[[Lika Berning]] as "Kaptein Lena Evans", [[Milan Murray]] as "Advokaat Nicki Swanepoel" and [[Marvin-Lee Beukes]] as "Kaptein Juan Stuurman".
+Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] and [[Herman Binge]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written and directed by a range of individuals, it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Kolonel Piet van der Bijl" ("Die Byl"),[[Lika Berning]] as "Kaptein Lena Evans", [[Milan Murray]] as "Advokaat Nicki Swanepoel" and [[Marvin-Lee Beukes]] as "Kaptein Juan Stuurman".
 (For details see the [[IMDb]] website[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7993644/] and/or the [[kykNET]] website entry on the programme[https://www.dstv.com/kyknet/af-za/program/die-byl])

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 The series, based on real detective Piet Byleveld, follows the life and work of Piet van Bijl (colloquially referred to as "Die Byl", i.e. "the axe"), a brilliant sleuth who specialises in tracking down serial killers.
-Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written and directed by a range of individuals, it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Die Byl". (For details see the [[IMDb]] website[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7993644/] and/or the [[DSTV]] website for [[kykNET]][https://www.dstv.com/kyknet/af-za/program/die-byl])
+Produced by [[Elmarie Botha]] for [[Lion's Head Productions]], written and directed by a range of individuals, it features a huge cast of South African actors, with [[Waldemar Schultz]] as "Die Byl". (For details see the [[IMDb]] website[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7993644/] and/or the [[kykNET]] website entry on the programme[https://www.dstv.com/kyknet/af-za/program/die-byl])
 Broadcast on the [[kykNET]] channel, the first season released in South Africa on July 12, 2016

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 Set in the Cape Colony of the 1650s, where Cape Governor Jan van Riebeeck and his men become aware of a murder that has been committed in the settlement. The central figure, an Englishman at the Cape who had acted as executioner to behead Charles I, never appears on stage, but his story is revealed in a conversation of between three people. To build up the tension, the conversation is constantly interrupted in various ways.
-Unpublished during the author's life, the play was included in the collection ''[[Vier Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'' by F.C. L. Bosman, and published by [[Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel]] in 1949.
+Unpublished during the author's life, the play was included in the collection ''[[Vier Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'' by [[F.C.L. Bosman]], and published by [[Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel]] in 1949.
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