Daniel C. Boonzaier

(“D.C.”1865-1950) Primarily famed as cartoonist, who worked for the Cape Town based newspaper Die Burger from its foundation in 1915 to 1940. He created the satirical mining magnate Hoggenheimer and the symbolic baboon on a pole, called Kees. (???**) Also had a keen interest in theatre and theatre personalities, described as a “stage manager and capable actor among the gentlemen amateurs” and an “acute critic” by Jill Fletcher (1994), doing numerous cartoons and most significantly, keeping a enormously useful journal of his avid theatre going. The latter material was published as "My Playgoing Days" in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. These writings form the core of the second half of F.C.L. Bosman's second volume on theatre in South Africa (1981), dealing with the period between 1855 and 1912. A friend of many theatre personalities, including Luscombe Searelle and particularly Stephen Black. [TH]