https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=Gladys_Thomas&feed=atom&action=historyGladys Thomas - Revision history2024-03-28T16:03:26ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.2https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=Gladys_Thomas&diff=170162&oldid=prevSatj: /* Biography */2019-06-04T03:17:05Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Biography</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The family settled in Simonstown, but she, her family and friends were later evicted in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act and moved to the “raw”, unfinished township of Ocean View. This experience led to her starting to write. She states that she, like many others, was angry and she thus "wrote not beautiful poetry but angry words. How could you explain to your teenage children why their lives had changed so radically?". Thomas's literary career really started in 1967 when she contacted James Matthews about her writing and they began working on the anthology, ''Cry Rage!'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</del>published by SPROCAS<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>1972, and then banned by the Apartheid authorities two weeks after its launch. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The family settled in Simonstown, but she, her family and friends were later evicted in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act and moved to the “raw”, unfinished township of Ocean View. This experience led to her starting to write. She states that she, like many others, was angry and she thus "wrote not beautiful poetry but angry words. How could you explain to your teenage children why their lives had changed so radically?". Thomas's literary career really started in 1967 when she contacted James Matthews about her writing and they began working on the anthology, ''Cry Rage!''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, which was </ins>published by SPROCAS <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in </ins>1972, and then banned by the Apartheid authorities two weeks after its launch. </div></td></tr>
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</table>Satjhttps://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=Gladys_Thomas&diff=170151&oldid=prevSatj: /* Sources */2019-06-03T11:07:12Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sources</span></span></p>
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</table>Satjhttps://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=Gladys_Thomas&diff=170150&oldid=prevSatj: /* Biography */2019-06-03T11:07:00Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Biography</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born Gladys Doreen Adams, the daughter of John Adams and Dorothy O'Riodan, in Soutrivier, Cape Town, where she <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">also grew up</del>. She left school at school at fifteen to work in a clothing factory<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and when </del>she was 18 she married [[Albert Thomas]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. They </del>had two children, Adrian Thomas and Tanja Thomas.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born Gladys Doreen Adams, the daughter of John Adams and Dorothy O'Riodan, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on the 14th of December, 1934 </ins>in Soutrivier, Cape Town, where she <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stayed till she was six years of age. Then her father took her to live with his family in Lakeside, after which she was not allowed to see her mother again and had to go to school from Lakeside, an [[Afrikaans]], Dutch Reformed school, in Retreat</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>She left school at school at fifteen to work in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a sweet factory and later </ins>a clothing factory<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. When </ins>she was 18 she married [[Albert Thomas]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, with whom she </ins>had two children, Adrian Thomas and Tanja Thomas.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1991 she wrote ''[[The Time is Now]]'', a localized adaptation of ''[[Waiting for Lefty]]'' by Clifford <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Odetts</del>, which was performed at a mini-festival linked to a [[Theatre Action Group]] (Cape Town) seminar in 1991, directed by her husband, [[Albert Thomas]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1991 she wrote ''[[The Time is Now]]'', a localized adaptation of ''[[Waiting for Lefty]]'' by Clifford <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Odets (1906-1963)</ins>, which was performed at a mini-festival linked to a [[Theatre Action Group]] (Cape Town) seminar in 1991, directed by her husband, [[Albert Thomas]].</div></td></tr>
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</table>Satjhttps://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=Gladys_Thomas&diff=170109&oldid=prevSatj: /* Biography */2019-06-03T07:31:30Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Biography</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born Gladys Doreen Adams, the daughter of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Christian May </del>Adams and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Franzina Adams</del>, in Soutrivier, Cape Town, where she also grew up. She left school at school at fifteen to work in a clothing factory, and when she married [[Albert Thomas]]. They had two children, Adrian Thomas and Tanja Thomas.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born Gladys Doreen Adams, the daughter of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">John </ins>Adams and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Dorothy O'Riodan</ins>, in Soutrivier, Cape Town, where she also grew up. She left school at school at fifteen to work in a clothing factory, and when <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">she was 18 </ins>she married [[Albert Thomas]]. They had two children, Adrian Thomas and Tanja Thomas.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The family settled in Simonstown, but she, her family and friends were later evicted in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act and moved to the “raw”, unfinished township of Ocean View. This experience led to her starting to write. She states that she, like many others, was angry and she thus "wrote not beautiful poetry but angry words. How could you explain to your teenage children why their lives had changed so radically?". Thomas's literary career really started in 1967 when she contacted James Matthews about her writing and they began working on the anthology, ''Cry Rage!'' (published by SPROCAS, 1972, and then banned by the Apartheid authorities two weeks after its launch. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The family settled in Simonstown, but she, her family and friends were later evicted in terms of the notorious Group Areas Act and moved to the “raw”, unfinished township of Ocean View. This experience led to her starting to write. She states that she, like many others, was angry and she thus "wrote not beautiful poetry but angry words. How could you explain to your teenage children why their lives had changed so radically?". Thomas's literary career really started in 1967 when she contacted James Matthews about her writing and they began working on the anthology, ''Cry Rage!'' (published by SPROCAS, 1972, and then banned by the Apartheid authorities two weeks after its launch. </div></td></tr>
</table>Satjhttps://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=Gladys_Thomas&diff=170108&oldid=prevSatj: /* Sources */2019-06-03T05:52:38Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sources</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lorna Sage, Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter. 1999. ''The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English''. Cambridge University Press: p.623 [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=NB59uc9_ss8C&pg=PA623&lpg=PA623&dq=gladys+thomas+'Children+of+Crossroads'&source=bl&ots=Km-sZsiI0r&sig=ACfU3U1_rH0cxAmJV3XrvxO0IFUx4aC05A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0qcfezsziAhXvRBUIHUucD0w4ChDoATABegQIBRAB#v=onepage&q=gladys%20thomas%20'Children%20of%20Crossroads'&f=false]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since her work was so critical of apartheid, much of it was banned; so when a stage production of one of her plays was praised by ''[[The World]]'' in 1979, her plays were banned and she was detained by the Security Police. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since her work was so critical of apartheid, much of it was banned; so when a stage production of one of her plays was praised by ''[[The World]]'' in 1979, her plays were banned and she was detained by the Security Police. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1983 she attended the International Writing Program in Iowa City, and her writing intensified markedly. Among the works now produced were <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''The Wynberg Seven'' (1987, based on her interviews with parents who watched their teenagers being taken into Pollsmoor Prison), </del>''Six stories of the children of Crossroads'' (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1988</del>) (using interviews she did with the dispossessed children of the community of Crossroads, which had been bulldozed in 1986 to make room for a white suburb) and ''Spotty Dog and other Township Children's Stories'' ([[Skotaville]], 1989). </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1983 she attended the International Writing Program in Iowa City, and her writing intensified markedly. Among the works now produced were ''Six stories of the children of Crossroads'' (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1986</ins>) (using interviews she did with the dispossessed children of the community of Crossroads, which had been bulldozed in 1986 to make room for a white suburb)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, ''The Wynberg Seven'' (1987, based on her interviews with parents who watched their teenagers being taken into Pollsmoor Prison), </ins>and ''Spotty Dog and other Township Children's Stories'' ([[Skotaville]], 1989). </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the years she received many forms of recognition, including the Kwanzaa Award for her protest writing, the Molteno Medal for her contribution to literature in the Western Cape (2000), the Western Cape Department of Arts and Culture Award for Literature (2004), the [[SALA]] Literary Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2007, the State President’s Award (''The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver'') in recognition of her "outstanding contribution to poetry and short stories through which she exposed the political injustices and human suffering of the apartheid regime and for raising international consciousness about the ravages of apartheid"[http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/national-orders/recipient/gladys-thomas-1944].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the years she received many forms of recognition, including the Kwanzaa Award for her protest writing, the Molteno Medal for her contribution to literature in the Western Cape (2000), the Western Cape Department of Arts and Culture Award for Literature (2004), the [[SALA]] Literary Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2007, the State President’s Award (''The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver'') in recognition of her "outstanding contribution to poetry and short stories through which she exposed the political injustices and human suffering of the apartheid regime and for raising international consciousness about the ravages of apartheid"[http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/national-orders/recipient/gladys-thomas-1944].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born Gladys Adams, the daughter of Christian May Adams and Franzina Adams, in Soutrivier, Cape Town, where she also grew up. She left school at school at fifteen to work in a clothing factory, and when she married [[Albert Thomas]]. They had two children, Adrian Thomas and Tanja Thomas.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Born Gladys <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Doreen </ins>Adams, the daughter of Christian May Adams and Franzina Adams, in Soutrivier, Cape Town, where she also grew up. She left school at school at fifteen to work in a clothing factory, and when she married [[Albert Thomas]]. They had two children, Adrian Thomas and Tanja Thomas.</div></td></tr>
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