Jan Alleman
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Jan Alleman is an Afrikaans expression referring to the common man.
Sometimes also used as an Afrikaans translation for Everyman.
(Not to be confused with the French word "Allemand".)
A number of theatre and film texts have used the term in their titles, including:
The term has also been used as the name of a character in some works, e.g. the play Putsonderwater by Bartho Smit]],
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