HAUM
Acronym for Hollandsch-Afrikaansche Uitgevers Maatshappij ("Reformed Afrikaans Publishing Company").
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Origins
Through the initiative of a Mr J.K. Huizinga, of Amsterdam, and at the insistence of the Dutch churches in South Africa, the publishing firm Jacques Dusseau & Co of Amsterdam founded a branch in Cape Town on 1 May 1894, to sell and publish religious books among the Dutch speaking population of South Africa.
By the late 1890s the Cape Town branch had run into financial difficulties , and was taken over by the Pretoria based branch of J.H. de Bussy & Co of Amsterdam, just before the Anglo-Boer War. The joint company began to publish under the new name of Hollandsch-Afrikaansche Uitgevers Maatshappij (HAUM).
History
As HAUM
Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, media and Performance
They published a number plays, collections of plays and books about theatre and the arts.
Sources
HAUM, 1974. Stellenbosse Galery. Kaapstad: HAUM.
As De Jager-HAUM
Bought by ** in 19** and renamed De Jager-HAUM.
Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, media and Performance
Under this name they sponsored the Kampustoneel, the ATKV's playwriting project, for a number of years and published the winning plays.
They also published a number of other plays, collections of plays and books about theatre, film, media and the arts.
Among them
Sources
HAUM Literêr (HAUM Literary)
Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, media and Performance
They published a number plays, collections of plays and books about theatre and the arts.
Sources
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