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• Jakes Gerwel
  [[Jakes Gerwel]] (1946-2012) was a renowned academic, struggle veteran and cultural leader. ...ruggle of the 1970-1990 period, promoting the role of [[Afrikaans]] in the struggle for freedom. Has held numerous positions, including rector of the [[Univers
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• Documentary drama
  ...ng improvisational techniques. The programme notes for Barney Simon & Co’s Born in the RSA (1985) for example typifies that play as a docudrama. Also known
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• Die Stiere
  ...he traditional bull fight is used as a metaphor for the Afrikaner nation’s struggle for survival.
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• D.F. du Toit
  ...sed with Doctor D.F. du Toit, a relation and also involved in the language struggle, though not in theatre as far is known.'' Born Daniël Francois du Toit on 15 January 1846 on the farm Kleinbos in Daljos
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• Arnoldus Pannevis
  ...at the Paarl Gymnasium, academic and leading figure in the first language struggle.
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• Bhekizizwe Peterson
  Born in 1961 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, he attended the [[University o ...re films (Fools and Zulu Love Letter) and feature documentaries (Born into Struggle, Zwelidumile, The Battle for Johannesburg, and Miners Shot Down), many of w
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• Namibia
  ...easing swell of protest against the South African emerged and after a long struggle, that became known as the Namibian War of Independence, the colony gained i ...and so on were born there, or settled there over the years. Many Namibian born individuals have also studied and developed their art in South Africa.
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• George Greig
  ...le in the publication of the first commercial newspaper and the subsequent struggle for freedom of the press in the Cape Colony. Born in Pentonville, Scotland, he arrived in Cape Town on 9 March 1823 and set u
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• Mafika Gwala
  Born [[Mafika Pascal Gwala]] on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, Nata ...collection of Zulu [[Praise songs|praise songs]], which had he translated into English. (Published in 1991).
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• Arthur Goldreich
  Born in Johannesburg, he was an active anti-apartheid campaigner from his youth. ...Industrial and Environmental Design Department, which he helped transform into an internationally recognized center for design. Goldreich lived in the cit
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• Sindiwe Magona
  ...t 1943 in Gungululu, Eastern Cape (then Transkei), South Africa. The first born of eight children, she grew up in Blouvlei, Retreat in Cape Town. Magona e ...d civil servant, she was a worker for peaceful change during the years of struggle in South Africa, and was one of the founding members of the Women’s Peace
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• Born in the RSA
  ''[[Born in the RSA]]'' is a multilingual, workshopped play (styled a "docudrama") b ...acters living in South Africa during that time, at the height of the final struggle between the oppositional forces and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apart
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• The Abbess
  ...had been excommunicated from the church. It celebrates Hildegard's "heroic struggle and her personal triumph as an artist and a woman who shaped the politics o ...f tremendous power and authority, capable of both abject humility and high-born arrogance.
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• Terry Lester
  [[Terry Lester]] (1940-1995). British-born comedian, singer, actor. ...being blacklisted by Equity. He died in Johannesburg in June 1995 after a struggle against cancer of the bone marrow.
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• Harry Bloom
  ...followed the Sharpville massacre in 1960, he was detained and in 1963 went into exile in England. In 1967, he became lecturer in law at the University of K
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• Eersgeborene
  ''[[Eersgeborene]]'' (''[[First born]]'') is a short South African film written, produced and directed by [[Etie ...a conflicted relationship between two men in some sort of emotional power struggle. When I read ''[[African Gothic]]'', an English translation of a play by my
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• P.J. Nienaber
  ...than 500 books and 1000 articles, notably works on the Afrikaans language struggle, the literary history of Afrikaans and collections of stories, plays, poetr
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• Dennis Brutus
  ...stay in the United States as a political refugee, after a protracted legal struggle. He served on the faculty of the University of Denver, Northwestern Univers
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• Muff Andersson
  Born [[Maeve Anderson]] (?) in ** During the struggle years, she became a Major in [[Umkhonto weSizwe]], working in Procurement a
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• Doreen Mazibuko
  [[Doreen Mazibuko]] (born 1965). Actress, playwright, director. ...self the task of documenting the political, social, economic and emotional struggle of South African women of all races and from every conceivable walk of life
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• Robert Kavanagh
  He is a fourth generation African of Gaelic descent, born [[Robert Malcolm McLaren]] in Durban and educated at Highbury Preparatory S ''[[Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa]]'' (author, [[Zed Books]], 1985)
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• David C. Oosthuizen
  David Charles Oosthuizen was born on 16 May 1938. From approximately 1965 onwards he worked for the [[Depart James Sanders – South Africa and the international media 1972-1979: a struggle for representation (2000)
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• Michael Picardie
  [[Michael Picardie]] (1936-) is a South African born academic, actor and playwright. He was born in Johannesburg in 1936, where he grew up and was trained in theatre by [[M
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• Nelson Mandela
  Born [[Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela]], ..."performances" on many stages world-wide, from his early appearances as a struggle leader to his later appearances as elder statesman. Perhaps the most iconic
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• Herman Pretorius
  Born [[Hermanus Petrus Pretorius]], he trained in [[Afrikaans]] literature and d ...kaans]] political [[kabaret]]s (“[[cabaret]]s”) as a force in the cultural struggle of the 1980s. He is particularly remembered for directing the early [[kabar
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• D.P. du Toit
  Born in the district Perdeberg on 9 December 1870. he joined his uncle, Ds S.J. du Toit - leader of the first language struggle and editor of ''Di Patriot'' and '''De Paarl/The Paarl'', to learn the trad
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• Township musical
  It was born out of a 1959 musical, ''[[King Kong]]'', which had been written by whites ...ney Simon]], [[David Kramer]] and [[Taliep Petersen]] in some ways slotted into the concept of the radical or political musical.
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• D.G. Conradie
  Born David Gideon Conradie on 24 Augustus 1879 near Ceres in the Cape, he went t ...he contributed to the language struggle by translating a number of dramas into [[Afrikaans]]. Among the translations are ''[[Fyne Beskuite]]'' (for [[Die
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• Errol Hinds
  ...m September 1924 to January 1926. The epic journey was filmed by Canadian-born Thomas A. Glover and was subsequently released under the title ''[[Cape to ...935), both in Sudan. Some of the footage from ''Stampede'' found its way into the film ''Stark Nature'' (1930), directed by Arthur Woods. Hinds is said
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• Adèle Jooste
  Born [[Hermina Adèle Gie]] on 17 Julie 1914 in Worcester as one of three daught ...by [[Adèle Jooste]] called ''[[Deur Stryd tot Oorwinning]]'' ("''[[Through Struggle to Victory]]''") in the original programme[https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerA
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• Sol Kerzner
  Born [[Solomon Kerzner]] in Troyeville, Johannesburg, in 1935, he was the younge After a long struggle with cancer, Kerzner passed away at the family home, Leeukoppie Estate in C
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• Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr de Waal
  He was born [[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr de Waal]], but was best known as [[J.H.H. de Waal]], ...phical ''My herinnerings van ons taalstryd'' ("My memories of our language struggle") was published by [[Nasionale Pers]] in 1932.
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• Dieter Reible
  ...29, he lived there through the horrors of World War 2 and at 15 was forced into the army, was a British prisoner of war at 16 and after his release he did In the wake of controversy surrounding the two productions and his struggle to obtain a work permit in South Africa, Reible returned to Germany for the
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• Ray Phoenix
  ...aya and in what was then the Netherlands East Indies during the Indonesian struggle for independence. ...]]. Ironically, footage from these documentaries eventually found its way into somewhat sensationalist American compilations, ''Naked Africa'' (1957) and
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• Louw, Joseph
  ...Hillbrow, both were charged under the notorious Immorality Act. She fled into exile and in April 1962 he jumped bail. Initially he worked on East Africa ...ian Marcelino dos Santos. She was actively involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, worked fulltime for FRELIMO and became Eduardo Mondlane’s confidential s
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• Julian Smith
  Born in Robertson in the Cape winelands, he grew up in the picturesque village o Smith has always been closely involved with the [[cultural struggle]] in the country, as well as having a close personal relationship to [[Adam
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• Gustav Schoeman Preller
  ...istorian, journalist, arts patron, cultural leader, leader of the language struggle, theatre critic. Born in the district of Pretoria on 4 October 1875, he moved to Pretoria in 1892
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• J.H.H. de Waal
  Born [[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr de Waal]] , he generally wrote and published as [[J. ...work, ''My herinnerings van ons taalstryd'' ("My memories of our language struggle"), was published by [[Nasionale Pers]] in 1932.
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• Louis Henri Meurant
  Born in Cape Town to a Swiss immigrant father, (possibly [[L. Meurant]]?), and ...was the author of the treatise ''Sixty years ago, or, Reminiscences of the struggle for the freedom of the press in South Africa and the establishment of the f
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• Craig Curtis
  ...d theatre manager [[Peter Curtis]] and designer [[Jennifer Craig]], he was born in London in 1949 and the family moved to South Africa in 1951. As the son A strong opponent of [[apartheid]] during the [[cultural struggle]] period, he nevertheless did not support the international [[cultural boyc
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• C.J. Langenhoven
  Born at Hoeko, near Ladismith, Cape Colony, where he was raised by an aunt and a ...outjie) Hugo, a widow with three children. Their only daughter, Engela was born in 1901.
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• L'Alouette
  ...chon, she was burned at the stake on 30th May 1431, her ashes being thrown into the Seine. A Papal investigation annulled her sentence in 1456 and in 1921 Translated into English as ''[[The Lark]]'' by Christopher Fry (1907–2005)[https://en.wik
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• Company
  ...e Blue Fox, the Chelsea Theatre and the PACT Arena. The Market Theatre was born out of this venture. Barney Simon directed Lysistrata for The Company at th
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• Melt J. Brink
  Born [[Melt Jacobus Brink]] in Cape Town on 16 May 1842, he had little education ...never really aligned himself with the ideals of the [[Afrikaans]] language struggle ''per se''.
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• Peter Krummeck
  ...'s Hospice in Kenilworth, Cape Town on Saturday, November 9th 2013 after a struggle with cancer, survived by his sisters, Anne and [[Judith Krummeck|Judith]],
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• Pieter-Dirk Uys
  He was born in Cape Town on 28 September 1945 and grew up there. He matriculated from N ...in the Western Cape, where he converted the old, disused, railway station into a cabaret venue called [[Evita se Perron]] ("perron" is [[Afrikaans]] for "
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• Adam Small
  ...aans]] literature and theatre in the pivotal early years of the [[cultural struggle]]. He was born on 21 Desember 1936 in Wellington. His father's family was Calvinist, while
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• Mavis Taylor
  She was born on 7 October 1924 and died on 4 November 1997 at the age of 73. ...[[Little Theatre Tours]] which took mobile, low budget theatre productions into the townships dissolving the barriers of segregated urban planning and in 1
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• ESAT Plays 1 S
  [[Southern Born]] [[The Struggle for Freedom| Struggle for Freedom, The]]
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• Little Theatre
  ...e at the [[Little Theatre]]. [[Mavis Taylor]] did [[Little Malcolm and his struggle against the Eunuchs]] in 1967 and Ibsen’s [[Peer Gynt]] in 1968. [[Robert ...re]]''' (or '''Biblioteekteater''' in Afrikaans) since it was incorporated into the new Library-complex completed 1936. Used by the [[Johannesburg Repertor
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• Market Theatre
  ...ional Theatre" because of its pivotal role in the cultural politics of the Struggle years (1976-1994). The [[Market Theatre]] is administered by the [[Market T The building was converted and turned into a complex by Ozz Construction, from architectural designs by [[Rodney Gross
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• Twentieth Century
  ...titutes scorched earth policy, introduces concentration camps. Kruger goes into in exile. '''[[George Pemba|GEORGE PEMBA]] ARTIST AND PLAYWRIGHT IS BORN IN PORT ELIZABETH ON 2 APRIL. PADERWSKI AND H.B. IRVING VISIT SA. MATHESON
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• Censorship in South Africa
  Another body called into being by the Publications Act of 1974 was the '''[[Publications Appeal Boar ...al order, together with authors, which were prohibited from being imported into the Republic of South Africa, were listed weekly in [[Jacobsen's Index of O
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