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[[J.H. Meyer]] (born 1899) was an [[Afrikaans]] playwright.

== Biography ==

==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

He wrote a tragedy called ''[[Wanneer Plig Moet Swig]]'' ("When duty must give way") under the [[nom de plume]] of [[Meyhendi Zhann]]. Published by [[Nasionale Pers]] (the 2nd printing in 1935).

== 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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.

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		+	Born Jan Hendrik Meyer on 27 June 1899 on the farm Platjiesdrift in the district of Humansdorp, as one of seventeen children to Cornelius Meyer en Martha Maria Munro. He was educated on the farm school and later attended the school in Humansdorp, where he matriculated. In 1918 he joined the civil service, evewnually becoming a magistrate. He served in various places, eventually settling in Boshof in the Orange Free State.

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-He started out writing poems as a schoolboy, but later shifted to plays. Using the [[nom de plume]] of '''[[Meyhendi Zhann]]''' he  wrote a number of pieces, most of them unpublished. The best known are the detective melodrama ''[[Wanneer Plig Moet Swig]]'' ("When duty must give way", a 2nd edition published 1935) and ''[[Gedwarsboom]]'' ("thwarted")  behandel die gevolge van ’n konflik na aanleiding van standverskil. Hy skryf verskeie ander ongepubliseerde dramas.
+He started out writing poems as a schoolboy, which he recited at the local debating society, but later shifted to plays. Using the [[nom de plume]] of '''[[Meyhendi Zhann]]''' he  wrote a number of pieces, most of them unpublished. The two published works are ''[[Wanneer Plig Moet Swig]]'' ("When duty must give way", published 1933) and ''[[Gedwarsboom]]'' ("thwarted", published 1935).
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	[[Sabinet]], the South African Libraries Catalogue.		[[Sabinet]], the South African Libraries Catalogue.

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-He wrote a number of plays
+He started out writing poems as a schoolboy, but later shifted to plays. Using the [[nom de plume]] of '''[[Meyhendi Zhann]]''' he  wrote a number of pieces, most of them unpublished. The best known are the detective melodrama ''[[Wanneer Plig Moet Swig]]'' ("When duty must give way", a 2nd edition published 1935) and ''[[Gedwarsboom]]'' ("thwarted")  behandel die gevolge van ’n konflik na aanleiding van standverskil. Hy skryf verskeie ander ongepubliseerde dramas.
-A detective melodrama called ''[[Wanneer Plig Moet Swig]]'' ("When duty must give way") under the [[nom de plume]] of '''[[Meyhendi Zhann]]'''. Published by [[Nasionale Pers]] (the 2nd printing in 1935).
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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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
+[[Sabinet]], the South African Libraries Catalogue.
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.