Anton Ackermann Geselskap

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An Afrikaans touring theatrical company founded by Anton Ackerman in 1935 as the Ackermann-Nell Geselskap with * Nell as financier, later renamed simply the Anton Ackermann Geselskap. The company included Sannie Uys, whom he renamed Pikkie Uys, Hans Brits (later to be known as Don Siebritz), and Benn Potgieter. The company toured for * years, inter alia with **, Koop my Blomme ("Buy my flowers", Shaw's Pygmalion, 1940), *****