Johan van Rooyen

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Johan van Rooyen (19*-2004) theatre director, journalist, theatre reviewer, arts editor.

Biography

He died in March 2004 in a hospital in Pretoria.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

He was arts editor of the Pretoria News in the 1980s, and subsequent founder and/or editor of a number of artsa and culture magazines, such as De Kat (founding editor, 1985), VUKA! (198*-198*), and Habitat???***

In 1980 he apparently founded PATSO (a student organisation for performing artists), which would eventually become PATO, a professional company.

Sources

Pretoria News, 19 March 1985.

Die Burger, 30 March 2004.

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