Kobus Louw - Revision history

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Kobus Louw (1945-1983?)

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Contribution to Theatre, Film, Media and Performance in South Africa

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 == Biography ==
-Born in Ventersburg, Orange Free State, he completed his high school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein, in 1962. Among his classmates were a number of other theatre personalities, including [[Johan Bernard]] and [[Temple Hauptfleisch]]. After a year as a conscript in the South African Air Force, he studied for a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], finishing in 1966.
+Born in Ventersburg, Orange Free State, he completed his high school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein, in 1962. Among his classmates were a number of other theatre personalities, including theatre practitioner [[Johan Geyser]], the journalists/critics [[John-Murray Viljoen]] and [[Braam Muller]], the theatre researcher [[Temple Hauptfleisch]] and the actor and director [[Johan Bernard]]. After a year as a conscript in the South African Air Force, he studied for a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], finishing in 1966.
 == Career ==

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 In 1975 he joined [[SABC|SABC TV]] as a scriptwriter.
-He was married to Lynette Joubert, and the couple had two children, a son [[Jaco Louw]] and a daughter [[Sonja Mae Louw]].
+He was married to Lynette Joubert, and the couple had two children, a son, author  [[Jaco Louw]] and a daughter, TV scriptwriter [[Sonja Mae Louw]].
 Louw tragically died of a heart attack in 1982/3?.

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 == Biography ==
-Born in Ventersburg, Orange Free State, he completed his high school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein, in 1962. Among his classmates were a number of theatre personalities, including [[Johan Bernard]], [[Johan Geyser]], [[John-Murray Viljoen]] and [[Temple Hauptfleisch]]. After a year as a conscript in the South African Air Force, he studied for a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], finishing in 1966.
+Born in Ventersburg, Orange Free State, he completed his high school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein, in 1962. Among his classmates were a number of other theatre personalities, including [[Johan Bernard]] and [[Temple Hauptfleisch]]. After a year as a conscript in the South African Air Force, he studied for a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], finishing in 1966.
 == Career ==

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 == Biography ==
-Born in Ventersburg, Orange Free State, he completed his high school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein, in 1962. Among his classmates were a number of theatre personalities, including [[Johan Bernard]], [[J.J. Geyser]], [[John Murray Viljoen]] and [[Temple Hauptfleisch]]. After a year as a conscript in the South African Air Force, he studied for a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], finishing in 1966.
+Born in Ventersburg, Orange Free State, he completed his high school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein, in 1962. Among his classmates were a number of theatre personalities, including [[Johan Bernard]], [[Johan Geyser]], [[John-Murray Viljoen]] and [[Temple Hauptfleisch]]. After a year as a conscript in the South African Air Force, he studied for a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], finishing in 1966.
 == Career ==

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 Playwright, radio and TV scriptwriter, journalist.
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 He truly became a household name with his TV scripts, the most famous of these being ''[[Willem]]'' (1976), a comic detective series which made [[Tobie Cronjé]] nationally famous , ''[[Dokter Dokter]]'' (a sitcom set in a hospital, 1976-1977), and ''[[Drama-Drama]]'' (1978).
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 ==Contribution to Theatre, Film, Media and Performance in South Africa==
-Louw wrote numerous radio plays, of which the haunting one-act ''[[Die Watertoring]]'' is perhaps the best (broadcast in 19**, published in 197*). His radio series ''[[Die Seepsteenbataljon]]'' was broadcast by the [[SABC]] in June 1972. In January 1978 it was presented as a television series by [[SABC TV]]. Published by [[Tafelberg-Uitgewers]] in 1978.
+Louw wrote numerous radio plays, of which the haunting one-act ''[[Die Watertoring]]'' is perhaps the best (broadcast in 19**, published in 197*). His radio series ''[[Die Seepsteenbataljon]]'' was broadcast by the [[SABC]] in June 1972. In January 1978 it was presented as a television series by [[SABC TV]] and novelized for publication by [[Tafelberg-Uitgewers]] in 1978.
 He truly became a household name with his TV scripts, the most famous of these being ''[[Willem]]'' (1976), a comic detective series which made [[Tobie Cronjé]] nationally famous , ''[[Dokter Dokter]]'' (a sitcom set in a hospital, 1976-1977), and ''[[Drama-Drama]]'' (1978).