Johan van Rooyen
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Johan van Rooyen (19*-2004) theatre director, journalist, theatre reviewer, arts editor.
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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 the professional company known as PATO.
Sources
Pretoria News, 19 March 1985.
Die Burger, 30 March 2004.
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