Elizabeth Sneddon - Revision history

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sneddon
-[[Percy Tucker 1997. ''Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business''. Johannesburg: [[Witwatersrand University Press]]..
+[[Percy Tucker]]. 1997. ''Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business''. Johannesburg: [[Witwatersrand University Press]]..
 Obituary published in ''[[The Natal Witness]]'',  1 December 2005.

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sneddon
-[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.
+[[Percy Tucker 1997. ''Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business''. Johannesburg: [[Witwatersrand University Press]]..
 Obituary published in ''[[The Natal Witness]]'',  1 December 2005.

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	[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz\|Tucker]], 1997.		[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz\|Tucker]], 1997.

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 In 1970 she collaborated with [[Welcome Msomi]] to create and present the hugely popular ''[[Macbeth|Umabatha]]'', Msomi’s Zulu version of ''[[Macbeth]]'', which successfully toured Britain.
-She wrote a handbook called ''Speech Training for You'', intended "for everyone who realises the importance of speech in the development of the human mind, and who wishes to imprive hsi control of this medium of communication, wether he be school-child or student, teacher or parent, who is, incidentally, primarily responsible for his child's speech." (Preface) Published by Juta & Co. Widely used it ran to multiple editions till 2006 (later editions edited by [[Murray McGibbon]]).
+She wrote a handbook called ''Speech Training for You'', intended "for everyone who realises the importance of speech in the development of the human mind, and who wishes to imprive hsi control of this medium of communication, wether he be school-child or student, teacher or parent, who is, incidentally, primarily responsible for his child's speech." (Preface) Published by Juta & Co. Widely used it was often reprinted and ran to a fourth edition in 2006 (the third and fourth editions edited by [[Murray McGibbon]]).
 Through her endeavours, Speech and Drama was accepted by the Joint Matriculation Board in 1977.

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 In 1970 she collaborated with [[Welcome Msomi]] to create and present the hugely popular ''[[Macbeth|Umabatha]]'', Msomi’s Zulu version of ''[[Macbeth]]'', which successfully toured Britain.
-She wrote a handbook called ''Speech Training for You'', intended "for everyone who realises the importance of speech in the development of the human mind, and who wishes to imprive hsi control of this medium of communication, wether he be school-child or student, teacher or parent, who is, incidentally, primarily responsible for his child's speech." (Preface) Published by Juta & Co.
+She wrote a handbook called ''Speech Training for You'', intended "for everyone who realises the importance of speech in the development of the human mind, and who wishes to imprive hsi control of this medium of communication, wether he be school-child or student, teacher or parent, who is, incidentally, primarily responsible for his child's speech." (Preface) Published by Juta & Co. Widely used it ran to multiple editions till 2006 (later editions edited by [[Murray McGibbon]]).
 Through her endeavours, Speech and Drama was accepted by the Joint Matriculation Board in 1977.

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	In 1970 she collaborated with [[Welcome Msomi]] to create and present the hugely popular ''[[Macbeth\|Umabatha]]'', Msomi’s Zulu version of ''[[Macbeth]]'', which successfully toured Britain.		In 1970 she collaborated with [[Welcome Msomi]] to create and present the hugely popular ''[[Macbeth\|Umabatha]]'', Msomi’s Zulu version of ''[[Macbeth]]'', which successfully toured Britain.
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		+	She wrote a handbook called ''Speech Training for You'', intended "for everyone who realises the importance of speech in the development of the human mind, and who wishes to imprive hsi control of this medium of communication, wether he be school-child or student, teacher or parent, who is, incidentally, primarily responsible for his child's speech." (Preface) Published by Juta & Co.

	Through her endeavours, Speech and Drama was accepted by the Joint Matriculation Board in 1977.		Through her endeavours, Speech and Drama was accepted by the Joint Matriculation Board in 1977.

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 In 1949 she established a Department of Speech and Drama on the university campus in Durban, fighting official disapproval to do so.
-In 1958 she was the co-founder of the [[Performing Arts Council of SA]].  In 1984 she helped to found the [[Durban Arts Youth Festival]], an educational project designed to stimulate a deeper awareness & interest in the creative arts.  In 1995 the Festival became known as the [[National Creative Arts Youth Festival]].
+She is said to have been the "co-founder of the [[Performing Arts Council of SA]] in 1958", though the existence of such an organization at that time has not yet been discovered. In 1984 she helped to found the [[Durban Arts Youth Festival]], an educational project designed to stimulate a deeper awareness & interest in the creative arts.  In 1995 the Festival became known as the [[National Creative Arts Youth Festival]].
 Many of South Africa's top theatrical talents passed through Sneddon's hands in the years before her retirement in 1972. She continued to work in the field, promoting speech and drama as a subject for matric and, in 1989, founding the National Creative Arts Youth Festival.

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 Obituary published in ''[[The Natal Witness]]'',  1 December 2005.
-[[[Mervyn McMurtry]]]
+([[Mervyn McMurtry]])
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