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| − | Born [[Mary Waterton Waters]], she was | + | Born [[Mary Waterton Waters]], she was the daughter of a missionary family, who worked as a teacher and author in the Cape, Natal and Northern Rhodesia. |
| − | Besides penning poetry and drama, | + | Considered a fierce, eccentric and formidable woman, with a strong interest in the history of the region and its peoples, she became, among other things, the founding principal of the first junior secondary school in the Albany Road area, a facility created in Grahamstown by [[Rhodes University]] Education Department as Rhodes Practicing School and intended to provide workplace experience for both lecturers and students. It became a high school in 1963 and was later named Mary Waters High School in her honour. |
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| + | Besides penning stories, poetry and drama (usually under the name [[Mary W. Waters]]), including a number of books for school use, such as the series ''Stories from History for Bantu Children'' (used for Standards I & II; III & IV; V & VI), published by [[Juta]] in the 1940s. | ||
==Contribution to South African theatre== | ==Contribution to South African theatre== | ||
Revision as of 06:42, 18 June 2022
Mary W. Waters (18**-19**) was a missionary in South Africa, as well as Mary Waters was a teacher, school principal mentor, poet and playwright.
Also known as M.W. Waters or simply as Mary Waters
Biography
Born Mary Waterton Waters, she was the daughter of a missionary family, who worked as a teacher and author in the Cape, Natal and Northern Rhodesia.
Considered a fierce, eccentric and formidable woman, with a strong interest in the history of the region and its peoples, she became, among other things, the founding principal of the first junior secondary school in the Albany Road area, a facility created in Grahamstown by Rhodes University Education Department as Rhodes Practicing School and intended to provide workplace experience for both lecturers and students. It became a high school in 1963 and was later named Mary Waters High School in her honour.
Besides penning stories, poetry and drama (usually under the name Mary W. Waters), including a number of books for school use, such as the series Stories from History for Bantu Children (used for Standards I & II; III & IV; V & VI), published by Juta in the 1940s.
Contribution to South African theatre
She wrote a number of plays in Xhosa for school use, notably uNongqause (or Nonqause), which was to be the second play put on by the Bantu Dramatic Society in 1933/4(??) (Published by Lovedale Press in 1924).
Sources
http://awarenet.org.za/schools/Mary-Waters-High-School
Peter Kallaway. 2018. History in popular literature and textbooks for Xhosa schools, 1850-1950s. In: Yesterday and Today No 20[1]
Jennifer Wenzel. 2010. Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond. University of Chicago Press[2]
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