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 However the plays were not rated highly by more literary minded cultural activists, such as [[Gustav Preller]] and [[J.H. Malan]], or serious performers, such as [[Hendrik Hanekom]] or [[Pieter Pohl]] of Graaff-Reinet. It is notable that 14 of those plays appeared in the period 1904 and 1908, when the [[Afrikaans]] culture was in dire need of resurrection.
-Among his most popular pieces were ''[[Berouw Kom meestal te Laat]]'' ("Regret Usually Comes too Late"),  ''[[Die Kwaaie Huishoudster]]'' ("The Difficult Housekeeper", 1905) , ''[[Maljan onder die Hoenders]]'' ("Mad Jan among the chickens", 1906), ''[[Die Slimme Boertjie, of Die Vergiftigde Worst]]'' ("The smart little farmer, or the poisoned sausage", 1916), ''[[Bij die Tande-dokter]]'' ("At the Dentist", 1905),  ''[[O, die Muise of Stemreg vir Vrouwe|O, De Muise of Die Stemreg vir Vrouwe]]'' ("Oh the mice or the vote for women", 1908) and ''[[Die Egskeiding]]'' ("The Divorce", 1905).
+Among his most popular pieces were ''[[Berouw Kom meestal te Laat]]'' ("Regret Usually Comes too Late"),  ''[[Die Kwaaie Huishoudster]]'' ("The Difficult Housekeeper", 1905) , ''[[Bij die Tande-dokter]]'' ("At the Dentist", 1905),  ''[[Die Egskeiding]]'' ("The Divorce", 1905), ''[[Maljan onder die Hoenders]]'' ("Mad Jan among the chickens", 1906), ''[[O, die Muise of Stemreg vir Vrouwe|O, De Muise of Die Stemreg vir Vrouwe]]'' ("Oh the mice or the vote for women", 1908), ''[[Die Slimme Boertjie, of Die Vergiftigde Worst]]'' ("The smart little farmer, or the poisoned sausage", 1916), ''[[Een Ondankbaar Kind]]'' ("a thankless child", 1917), .
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 He retired from the civil service on 1 Junie 1908, and would devote the rest of his life to his cultural activities and writing.
-He married Nanet Combrink, daughter of a wealthy Cape Town family, on  17 Junie 1870. Nanet passed away in in 1915 and Melt Brink on  3 September 1925. The couple did not have any children.
+He married Nanet Albertien Combrink, daughter of a wealthy Cape Town family, on  17 Junie 1870. Nanet passed away in in 1915 and Melt Brink on  3 September 1925. The couple did not have any children.
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 His last ([[Dutch]]?) play for them was ''[[De Slagers van Ghent]]'' (or also known as ''[[De Offers der Vrijheid of De Slagers van Ghent]]''), performed on 17 July 1877.
-When he begins to write again in the 1880s he had discarded [[Dutch]] in favour of [[Afrikaans]], or at least his own form of [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] - what has been referred to as "[[Brink Afrikaans]]" by some writers. As early as 1884 he published a series of "''[[Afrikaanse Schetsze]]''" in the comic periodical ''[[The Knobkerrie]]'', under the pseudonym [[Koos Rymzak]]. He went on to write 47 playlets (including "samensprake" or "dialogues") which appeared in print between ''[[Hoe Oom Jacob Hoogvliegt Gefopt Werd]]'' ("How Uncle Jacob Highflier was tricked",1904) and  ''[[Die Diamantkoors, of Einde Goed, Alles Goed]]'' ("Diamond Fever, or All's Well that Ends Well", 1921) had an immense influence on popular [[Afrikaans]] theatre ("volkstoneel") and were often reprinted and performed by various companies.
+When he begins to write again in the 1880s he had discarded [[Dutch]] in favour of [[Afrikaans]], or at least his own form of [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] - what has been referred to as "[[Brink Afrikaans]]" by some writers. As early as 1884 he published a series of "''[[Afrikaanse Schetsze]]''" in the comic periodical ''[[The Knobkerrie]]'', under the pseudonym [[Koos Rijmzak]]. He went on to write 47 playlets (including "samensprake" or "dialogues") which appeared in print between ''[[Hoe Oom Jacob Hoogvliegt Gefopt Werd]]'' ("How Uncle Jacob Highflier was tricked",1904) and  ''[[Die Diamantkoors, of Einde Goed, Alles Goed]]'' ("Diamond Fever, or All's Well that Ends Well", 1921) had an immense influence on popular [[Afrikaans]] theatre ("volkstoneel") and were often reprinted and performed by various companies.
 However the plays were not rated highly by more literary minded cultural activists, such as [[Gustav Preller]] and [[J.H. Malan]], or serious performers, such as [[Hendrik Hanekom]] or [[Pieter Pohl]] of Graaff-Reinet. It is notable that 14 of those plays appeared in the period 1904 and 1908, when the [[Afrikaans]] culture was in dire need of resurrection.

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-He began writing poetry from his fourteenth year and published his first pieces of verse in the 1860's in the journal ''[[The Knobkerrie]]''. He went on to become an enormously prolific [[Dutch]] and [[Afrikaans]] poet, storyteller and playwright, one whose 47 dialogues and one-act light farces could be considered the true beginning of local writing in [[Afrikaans]], even though he wrote much of it in what was known as [[Kaapse Afrikaans]] ("[[Cape Dutch]]"), or [[Brink Afrikaans]], and he himself never really aligned himself with the ideals of the [[Afrikaans]] language struggle ''per se''.
+He began writing poetry from his fourteenth year, going om to become an enormously prolific [[Dutch]] and [[Afrikaans]] poet, storyteller and playwright, one whose 47 dialogues and one-act light farces could be considered the true beginning of local writing in [[Afrikaans]], even though he wrote much of it in what was known as [[Kaapse Afrikaans]] ("[[Cape Dutch]]"), or [[Brink Afrikaans]], and he himself never really aligned himself with the ideals of the [[Afrikaans]] language struggle ''per se''.
 He became a leading figure in Cape [[Dutch]] amateur theatre, as writer, popular and versatile actor and secretary of the influential group '''[[Aurora]]''' (1866-1887), for which he also wrote 14 farces in [[Dutch]].
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 His last ([[Dutch]]?) play for them was ''[[De Slagers van Ghent]]'' (or also known as ''[[De Offers der Vrijheid of De Slagers van Ghent]]''), performed on 17 July 1877.
-When he begins to write again, at the turn of the century, he had discarded [[Dutch]] in favour of [[Afrikaans]], or at least his own form of [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] - what has been referred to as "[[Brink Afrikaans]]" by some writers. The 47 playlets (including "samensprake" or "dialogues") which appeared in print between ''[[Hoe Oom Jacob Hoogvliegt Gefopt Werd]]'' ("How Uncle Jacob Highflier was tricked",1904) and  ''[[Die Diamantkoors, of Einde Goed, Alles Goed]]'' ("Diamond Fever, or All's Well that Ends Well", 1921) had an immense influence on popular [[Afrikaans]] theatre ("volkstoneel") and were often reprinted and performed by various companies.
+When he begins to write again in the 1880s he had discarded [[Dutch]] in favour of [[Afrikaans]], or at least his own form of [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] - what has been referred to as "[[Brink Afrikaans]]" by some writers. As early as 1884 he published a series of "''[[Afrikaanse Schetsze]]''" in the comic periodical ''[[The Knobkerrie]]'', under the pseudonym [[Koos Rymzak]]. He went on to write 47 playlets (including "samensprake" or "dialogues") which appeared in print between ''[[Hoe Oom Jacob Hoogvliegt Gefopt Werd]]'' ("How Uncle Jacob Highflier was tricked",1904) and  ''[[Die Diamantkoors, of Einde Goed, Alles Goed]]'' ("Diamond Fever, or All's Well that Ends Well", 1921) had an immense influence on popular [[Afrikaans]] theatre ("volkstoneel") and were often reprinted and performed by various companies.
 However the plays were not rated highly by more literary minded cultural activists, such as [[Gustav Preller]] and [[J.H. Malan]], or serious performers, such as [[Hendrik Hanekom]] or [[Pieter Pohl]] of Graaff-Reinet. It is notable that 14 of those plays appeared in the period 1904 and 1908, when the [[Afrikaans]] culture was in dire need of resurrection.

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	[[Melt J. Brink]] (1842-1925) was a [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] poet, playwright, actor and director.		[[Melt J. Brink]] (1842-1925) was a [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] poet, playwright, actor and director.

−	Also known as '''[[M.J. Brink]]''' or most often simply as '''[[Melt Brink]]'''. He also wrote some ~~dialogues~~ under the pseudonym of [[Koos Rijmzak]].	+	Also known as '''[[M.J. Brink]]''' or most often simply as '''[[Melt Brink]]'''. He also wrote some early pieces of verse under the pseudonym of '''[[Koos Rijmzak]]'''.

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 [[Melt J. Brink]] (1842-1925) was a [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] poet, playwright, actor and director.
-Also known as '''[[M.J. Brink]]''' or most often simply as '''[[Melt Brink]]'''.
+Also known as '''[[M.J. Brink]]''' or most often simply as '''[[Melt Brink]]'''. He also wrote some dialogues under the pseudonym of [[Koos Rijmzak]].
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-He began writing poetry from his fourteenth year and became an enormously  prolific [[Dutch]] and [[Afrikaans]] poet, storyteller and playwright, whose 47 dialogues and one-act light farces could be considered the true beginning of local writing in [[Afrikaans]], even though he wrote much of it in what was known as [[Kaapse Afrikaans]] ("[[Cape Dutch]]"), or [[Brink Afrikaans]], and he himself never really aligned himself with the ideals of the [[Afrikaans]] language struggle ''per se''.
+He began writing poetry from his fourteenth year and published his first pieces of verse in the 1860's in the journal ''[[The Knobkerrie]]''. He went on to become an enormously prolific [[Dutch]] and [[Afrikaans]] poet, storyteller and playwright, one whose 47 dialogues and one-act light farces could be considered the true beginning of local writing in [[Afrikaans]], even though he wrote much of it in what was known as [[Kaapse Afrikaans]] ("[[Cape Dutch]]"), or [[Brink Afrikaans]], and he himself never really aligned himself with the ideals of the [[Afrikaans]] language struggle ''per se''.
 He became a leading figure in Cape [[Dutch]] amateur theatre, as writer, popular and versatile actor and secretary of the influential group '''[[Aurora]]''' (1866-1887), for which he also wrote 14 farces in [[Dutch]].

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	Born [[Melt Jacobus Brink]] in Cape Town on 16 May 1842, he had little education and a chequered youth, before becoming a cartographer in the surveyor general’s office by profession. He was also an avid Freemason and utilized those connections to promote culture in the Cape.		Born [[Melt Jacobus Brink]] in Cape Town on 16 May 1842, he had little education and a chequered youth, before becoming a cartographer in the surveyor general’s office by profession. He was also an avid Freemason and utilized those connections to promote culture in the Cape.
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		+	He retired from the civil service on 1 Junie 1908, and would devote the rest of his life to his cultural activities and writing.
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		+	He married Nanet Combrink, daughter of a wealthy Cape Town family, on 17 Junie 1870. Nanet passed away in in 1915 and Melt Brink on 3 September 1925. The couple did not have any children.

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 == Biography ==
-Born in Cape Town on 16 May 1842, he had little education and a chequered youth, before becoming a cartographer in the surveyor general’s office by profession. He was also an avid Freemason and utilized those connections to promote culture in the Cape.
+Born [[Melt Jacobus Brink]] in Cape Town on 16 May 1842, he had little education and a chequered youth, before becoming a cartographer in the surveyor general’s office by profession. He was also an avid Freemason and utilized those connections to promote culture in the Cape.
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==