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 Finally, the [[National Arts and Culture Awards]] ([[NACA]]), established in 2026, now has a detailed entry.
 '''''Staff news:''''' On 17 August, 2026, [[ESAT]] contributor Dr [[Annel Pieterse Roux]] joined the management team as co-project-leader and co-editor of the encyclopaedia.
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 New reference and screen-history entries include the documentary filmmaker [[Michael Duffett]] (1956–2021) and the film ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]'' (1980); the bilingual essay collection ''[[Die Breytie-Boek/The Breytie Book]]'', dedicated to [[P.P.B. Breytenbach]]; the cabaret ''[[Die Siel van Eugene Marais]]'' by [[Amanda Bothma]]; and J.M. Barrie's classic ''[[Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up]]''.
 '''June 2026 — New entries: people, plays, companies and venues'''
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 Two companies have been added. [[Wela Kapela Productions]], founded in 2018 by [[Amanda Bothma]], is a contemporary touring production company. At the other end of the timeline, [[Morgan and Wheatman's English Pantomime Company]] was a British touring company that brought pantomime to South African audiences in the late nineteenth century. The [[Carlton Theatre]] in Johannesburg, which opened in September 1912 in the same block as the original Carlton Hotel, has also been documented for the first time as a venue entry.
 '''May 2026 — New contributors'''

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	Browse all new additions via [[Special:NewPages\|recent additions]] or explore the full encyclopaedia at [[The ESAT Entries]].		Browse all new additions via [[Special:NewPages\|recent additions]] or explore the full encyclopaedia at [[The ESAT Entries]].
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	'''''Staff news:''''' On 17 August, 2026, [[ESAT]] contributor Dr [[Annel Pieterse Roux]] joined the management team as co-project-leader and co-editor of the encyclopaedia.		'''''Staff news:''''' On 17 August, 2026, [[ESAT]] contributor Dr [[Annel Pieterse Roux]] joined the management team as co-project-leader and co-editor of the encyclopaedia.

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+'''September 2026 - New entries: dance history, broadcast and film companies, women's collectives'''
-'''''Staff news:''''' On 17 August, 2026, [[ESAT]] contributor Dr [[Annel Pieterse Roux]] joined the management team as co-project-leader and co-editor of the encyclopaedia.
+A new set of contributions over the past month has substantially strengthened ESAT's coverage of South African dance, broadcast history and contemporary performance collectives.
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+'''''Staff news:''''' On 17 August, 2026, [[ESAT]] contributor Dr [[Annel Pieterse Roux]] joined the management team as co-project-leader and co-editor of the encyclopaedia.
-'''Namaqualand on stage, the radio drama of Lee Doubell, and the 1970s touring repertoire'''''
+'''August 2026 - New entries: Namaqualand on stage, the radio drama of Lee Doubell, and the 1970s touring repertoire'''''
 More than fifty new entries have been added since mid-July, alongside substantial expansions to several existing articles. The period's work falls into three large clusters — a contemporary [[Afrikaans]] playwright documented with her full oeuvre, a body of Afrikaans radio drama, and the reconstruction of a 1970s touring company — with further additions in dance history, cinema history and screen biography.

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 More than fifty new entries have been added since mid-July, alongside substantial expansions to several existing articles. The period's work falls into three large clusters — a contemporary [[Afrikaans]] playwright documented with her full oeuvre, a body of Afrikaans radio drama, and the reconstruction of a 1970s touring company — with further additions in dance history, cinema history and screen biography.
-The largest single body of new material documents [[Dianne du Toit Albertze]] (19**-), a playwright, novelist, actress, director and arts journalist whose Afrikaans work draws on her native [[Namaqualand]] and on trans and queer material. Eight of her works now have entries: ''[[Bottelnek breek bek|bottelnek breek bek]]'', which she adapted from her own novel of the same title; ''[[Klip Kween]]'', about a young transgender woman who returns to her birthplace; ''[[Huis van sand]]'', set in a caravan park outside Springbok; ''[[Kaap]]'', which engages the sound, colour and colonial history of Cape Town; the one-performer tragicomedy ''[[Katrina Kakkerlak]]''; the twenty-minute one-woman drama ''[[Die meermin-kompleks]]''; ''[[Kommapunt]]'', a devised piece on depression assembled from poems and prose; and ''[[’n Kraai song]]''. The cluster is anchored by a substantial new contextual entry on [[Namaqualand]] — the Afrikaans '''Namakwaland''', historically also '''Little Namaqualand''' or '''Klein-Namakwaland''', as distinguished from Great Namaqualand north of the Orange River — the longest addition of the period, and a rare instance of a geographical entry created to serve a body of dramatic work.
+The largest single body of new material documents [[Dianne du Toit Albertze]] (19**-), a playwright, novelist, actress, director and arts journalist whose [[Afrikaans]] work draws on her native [[Namaqualand]] and on trans and queer material. Eight of her works now have entries: ''[[Bottelnek breek bek|bottelnek breek bek]]'', which she adapted from her own novel of the same title; ''[[Klip Kween]]'', about a young transgender woman who returns to her birthplace; ''[[Huis van sand]]'', set in a caravan park outside Springbok; ''[[Kaap]]'', which engages the sound, colour and colonial history of Cape Town; the one-performer tragicomedy ''[[Katrina Kakkerlak]]''; the twenty-minute one-woman drama ''[[Die meermin-kompleks]]''; ''[[Kommapunt]]'', a devised piece on depression assembled from poems and prose; and ''[[’n Kraai song]]''. The cluster is anchored by a substantial new contextual entry on [[Namaqualand]] — the Afrikaans '''Namakwaland''', historically also '''Little Namaqualand''' or '''Klein-Namakwaland''', as distinguished from Great Namaqualand north of the Orange River — the longest addition of the period, and a rare instance of a geographical entry created to serve a body of dramatic work.
-ESAT's coverage of [[Afrikaans]] [[radio drama]] has been significantly strengthened following the death of the writer [[Lee Doubell]] (1958*-2026). Six of his radio works now have entries: the serials ''[[Tien Dae]]'' and ''[[Sestig Dae]]'', and the dramas ''[[Krag]]'', ''[[Koue Kaiings]]'', ''[[Sou die Sterre Luister]]'' and ''[[Wild en Woeker]]''.
+[[ESAT]]'s coverage of [[Afrikaans]] [[radio drama]] has been significantly strengthened following the death of the writer [[Lee Doubell]] (1958*-2026). Six of his radio works now have entries: the serials ''[[Tien Dae]]'' and ''[[Sestig Dae]]'', and the dramas ''[[Krag]]'', ''[[Koue Kaiings]]'', ''[[Sou die Sterre Luister]]'' and ''[[Wild en Woeker]]''.
 A third cluster reconstructs [[Theatre Roundabout]] through its people and its repertoire. Nine plays from the company's mid-1970s touring seasons have been added, most of them by [[Brian Darnley]] — ''[[When the World Was Very Young]]'', ''[[The Lost Laugh]]'', ''[[The Music Makers]]'', ''[[Grinappy]]'', ''[[The Carton of Oon]]'', ''[[The 1820 Settlers]]'', ''[[STOP!]]'' and ''[[Oodles]]'' — together with ''[[The Baron Returns]]'' by [[Roger Holt]]. Company members [[Lea Hodgekinson]], [[Ann Larson]], [[Julius Exter]], [[Walter Tamsen]], [[David Chambers]], [[Stephen Scott]] and [[Christopher Voysey]] have been documented for the first time.

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