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Dana Snyman
Dana Snyman is a South African journalist, writer and playwright. Snyman was born in Stellenbosch and matriculated from Nylstroom High School. He later followed a journalism course at the Tshwane University of Technology before joining the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld as a crime reporter. Three years later he became a journalist at Huisgenoot magazine, where he worked for ten years. As of 2007, Snyman is the travel editor of Weg! magazine. His first book, ''Uit die binneland'' (From the country) was published in 2005 and his second, ''Anderkant die scrap'' (On the other side of the scrap), in 2006. Both are collected short-short stories and sketches. Snyman's first play, the one-man comedy ''Die Uwe, Pottie Potgieter '' (Yours Truly, Pottie Potgieter), was first performed in 2006 by Frank Opperman and was the runner-up for the AngloGold Ashanti/Aardklop-Smeltkroes Award for new texts in the same year. Awards * 2005 Mondi Magazine Award for "Commentary and Critique". * 2005 ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African People
According to the 2022 census, the population of South Africa is about 62 million people of diverse origins, cultures, Languages of South Africa, languages, and Religion in South Africa, religions, with a majority being Black Africans. The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032. In 2011, Statistics South Africa counted 2.1 million foreigners in total. Reports suggest that is an underestimation. The real figure may be as high as five million, including some three million Demographics of Zimbabwe, Zimbabweans. History The earliest creatures that can be identified as human ancestors in South Africa are Australopithecine, australopithecines. The first evidence of this was a Taung Child, child's skull found in the Taung quarry site. This was in the modern day North West (South African province), North-West province. More Fossil, fossils australopithecines were found in limestone caves Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huisgenoot
''Huisgenoot'' (Afrikaans language, Afrikaans for ''Housemate'') is a weekly South African Afrikaans-language general-interest family magazine. It has the highest circulation figures of any South African magazine and is followed by sister magazine ''You (South African magazine), YOU'', its English-language version. A third magazine, ''Drum (South African magazine), Drum'', is directed at the black market. The magazines have a combined circulation of about 550 000 copies a week. Yvonne Beyers is the current editor of ''Huisgenoot''. It is estimated that more than two million people read ''Huisgenoot'' weekly. The magazine also has many brand extensions and a popular concert, Skouspel, was held at Sun City, North West, Sun City every year until 2014. Some of the best Afrikaans artists are heard and the most popular singers, actors and TV shows of the year are honoured with an award called Tempo. A yearly Skouspel concert is also held in Cape Town. ''Huisgenoot'' launched a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Journalists
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaner People
Afrikaners () are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.Entry: Cape Colony. ''Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Casting''. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1933. James Louis Garvin, editor. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector. Afrikaans, a language which evolved from the Dutch dialect of South Holland, is the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. According to the South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% of South Africans claimed to speak Afrikaans as a first language at home, making it the country's third-largest home language after Zulu and Xhosa. The arrival of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama at Calicut, India, in 1498 opened a gateway of free access to Asia from Western Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. This access necessitated the founding and safeguarding of trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaanse Taal En Kultuurvereniging
The Afrikaans Language and Culture Association (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging), ATKV, is a society that aims to promote the Afrikaans language and culture. The association was founded in 1930 in Cape Town. Since its inception and up to the end of Apartheid in 1994, membership was only open to members of the Afrikaner Christian community. Membership was thereafter opened to include people of all ethnicities, sharing the same values as the ATKV (i.e. speaking Afrikaans and belonging to the Christian faith). History The Witwatersrand Gold Rush of 1886 and Anglo Boer War (1899–1902) resulted in an influx of foreigners to the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek. Because the Boer Republics became British colonies right after the Anglo Boer War, the Afrikaners felt marginalised and Social stigma, stigmatised. This culminated in the mass urbanisation of unskilled Afrikaners during the Great Depression years. Like many British soldiers and immigrants the impoverished Afrikaner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondi
Mondi plc is a multinational packaging industry, packaging and paper company, paper group. Group offices are located in Weybridge, England. It has listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History Mondi has its roots in South Africa where, in 1967, the company's former owner, Anglo American plc, built the Merebank Mill in Durban. In 2000, the company increased its holdings in Neusiedler AG and Frantschach AG, both Austrian businesses, to 100% and 70% respectively. Also in 2000, it acquired Cofinec, a Polish business. It increased its holding in the Syktyvkar Mill in the Komi Republic to 90% in 2002.Anglo American to invest US $250 million in Russian paper mill PMD, 18 March 2002 In 2004 Mondi furthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Opperman (South African Actor)
Frank Opperman (born 8 June 1960) is a South African actor and musician. Career Born in Johannesburg, Opperman attended numerous schools across South Africa in Worcester, Benoni, Hermanus and Middelburg. He matriculated from Silverton High School in Pretoria in 1978. Opperman started studying law in 1979 at the University of Pretoria but soon lost interest and joined the South African Defence Force in 1980, where he played in an army marching band. Upon leaving the service, he dated a female drama student and became interested in acting as a career option. He subsequently obtained a three-year national diploma in acting at the Pretoria Technikon and received the Pretoria Trust Award for best student. The following two years he worked for PACT (Performing Arts Council Transvaal) and acted in productions such as ''Spring awakening'' and ''Caspar in my tuin''. He also acted alongside fellow South African actor Arnold Vosloo in a full-length feature film called '' Boetie gaan b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weg!
''Weg!'' (literal English translation: ''Away!''; title of English-language version: ''Go!'') is an Afrikaans language outdoor and travel magazine. It was first published in April 2004 and is owned by the Media24 division of Naspers. The magazine focuses on affordable destinations in South Africa and the rest of Africa. In addition to travel articles, the magazine also contains photographic portfolios focusing on nature and recipes, as well as car, book, music and outdoor equipment reviews. The original name of the magazine was ''Wegbreek'' (Break Away), but it was forced to change its name after a court case with Ramsay, Son & Parker, the publishers of the rival '' Getaway'' magazine. In February 2006, the magazine achieved a circulation of 77,174 (as audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa), making it the largest outdoor and travel magazine in any language in South Africa. This position was consolidated by the launch of its English language sister magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane and Conoghan (editors), ''The New Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford University Press, 2008 (), p. 263Google Books). though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a Category of being, category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The notion that acts such as murder, rape, and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertising, or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, Editorial board, editors, Editorial board, editorial writers, columnists, and photojournalists. A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using source (journalism), sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific Beat reporting, beat (area of cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeld
''Beeld'' (freely translated as ''Picture'' or ''Image'') is an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. ''Beeld'' is distributed in four provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West, previously part of the former Transvaal province. ''Die Beeld'' (English: ''The Image'') was an Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s. History The newspaper was aligned with the National Party and apartheid policies.Beeld’s new editor of `iron’ ''The Mail & Guardian''. 16 August 1996 In later years, the newspaper was seen to be more aligned with the Democratic Party. In April 1981, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
