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Devil's Peak (novel)
Devil's Peak is a detective novel by South African novelist Deon Meyer, first published in Afrikaans under the title ''Infanta'' in 2004. The English translation by K. L. Seeger was published under the title ''Devil's Peak'' in 2007, and it has since been translated into a number of other languages. This novel begins a series of seven detective novels featuring Inspector Benny Griessel. Plot summary Thobela Mpayipheli is a former Umkhonto we Sizwe soldier and KGB assassin, who hangs up his boots to take care of his adopted son Pakamile. When Pakamile is killed in a random shooting by armed robbers, Thobela has only one thing on his mind: to do justice and hunt down child abusers across the country. He becomes a vigilante. Inspector Griessel, an alcoholic, takes charge of the investigation but he must also deal with his family problems. Intertwined with this is the story of Christine, a prostitute who becomes involved with a Colombian drug dealer and fears for her child. Adap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deon Meyer
Deon Godfrey Meyer is a South African thriller novelist, writing primarily in Afrikaans. His works have been translated into 28 languages. He has also written numerous scripts for television and film. Early life and education Deon Meyer was born in Paarl, South Africa. He matriculated in 1976 at the Schoonspruit High School in Klerksdorp. He then attended Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, where he gained a BA with English and History as majors. He later obtained an honours degree at the University of the Free State. Career In the 1980s he worked as a journalist at '' Die Volksblad'', at the public relations office of the University of the Free State, and began work as advertising copy writer at Sanlam. In 1991 he was appointed manager of Internal Communication and creative director of Sanlam's publicity department. After leaving Sanlam, he started his own business specialising in the creation and management of virtual communities on the intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamilla Miller
Shamilla Ismael Miller (born 14 September 1988) is a South African actress, television presenter, and model. She is best known for her roles in ''Amaza'', ''Forced Love'', ''Tali's Baby Diary'', '' Troy: Fall of a City'', and '' The Girl from St. Agnes''. Early life and education Shamilla Ismael Miller was born on 14 September 1988 in Cape Town, South Africa. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in live performance and film from AFDA, The School for the Creative Economy (AFDA) in 2009. Career Miller started her acting career in theatre, acting in plays under David Kramer and Alfred Rietman. She also played lead roles in productions such as ''Krismas van Map Jacob’s'' (2009) and ''Baby'' (2010). From 2011 to 2015, she joined Vulture Productions and performed in five sitcom-style plays performed at the Artscape Theatre and Grahamstown Festival. She also appeared in television commercials. In 2013, she made film debut with Hollywood blockbuster ''Zulu'' directed by Jérôme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Novels
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form consisting of a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Crime Novels
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] |
Novels By Deon Meyer
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and Publication, published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek novel, Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term Romance (literary fiction) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Studios
BBC Studios Limited is a British content company. It is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that was formed in April 2018 through the merger of the BBC's commercial production arm and the BBC's commercial international distribution arm, BBC Worldwide. BBC Studios creates, develops, produces, distributes, broadcasts, finances and sells content around the world, returning around to the BBC annually in dividends and content investment. Overview BBC Studios Productions brings together the majority of BBC Television's former in-house production departments; Factual, Drama, Comedy (both combined as Scripted in the new division), Entertainment, and Music & Events. BBC Children's production is set to move into BBC Studios Productions from April 2022 to increase the potential of taking British children's content to the wider global market, along with BBC Three's in-house production team, which is joining from April 2021. BBC News and BBC Radio remain separate internal production divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masasa Mbangeni
Masasa Lindiwe Mbangeni is a South African actress. She is best known for her role as ''Thembeka Shezi'' in the popular television serial '' Scandal!''. Early life and education Masasa Lindiwe Mbangeni was born on in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She received the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in dramatic arts, specialising in performance and directing. Career Mbangeni made guest appearances on two television series: as Eunice on the BBC Television crime drama ''Silent Witness'' and as Jackie's personal assistant on the M-Net soapie, '' Egoli''. She also performed in stage plays at the Johannesburg's Market Theatre: ''Nogogo'', ''Sundjata'', and ''Amen Corner'', directed by James Ngcobo. She also toured Grahamstown Festival of the Arts with the play ''Oedipus @ Koonu''. In 2013, she joined the cast of popular television serial '' Scandal!'' and played the role of Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Rudolf
Gérard Rudolf is a South African actor. He has starred in many TV series and films since 1992, including the 2013 Bengali film ''Chander Pahar'' and the SABC 3 soap ''Isidingo''. He stars as Boef Beukes in the 2023 M-Net series '' Devil's Peak'', based on the novel of the same name by Deon Meyer. Early life and education Gérard Rudolf was born in Pretoria, South Africa, but spent most of his younger years in Cape Town and then his teenage years in Johannesburg. After completing high school he did two years of compulsory military service, and was sent to fight in the Angolan War. In 1987 he joined the drama school at the University of Pretoria, where he graduated in 1989. Career Rudolf joined the CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Board) drama company for a year, during which he performed on stage in Shakespeare plays, comedies, and dramas. He left the company in 1991 to start his own theatre company called Makeshift Moon, specialising in original South African works. In the sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisanda Henna
Sisanda Henna (born 18 March 1982) is a South African film producer, director, and actor. Early life and education Sisanda Henna was born on 18 March 1982 in Bisho, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He later trained as a story and script editor at Masters level through the South African National Film Video Foundation (NFVF). He completed the International Financing program offered by the NFVF. Career Acting Henna's acting career started on South African screens in 2003, with the TV series ''Tsha Tsha''. He played Sandile in the SABC 1 series, which aired from 2003 to 2006. In 2007 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue work in Hollywood. Henna starred as Sisansa Nkosi in the MNet series ''Inconceivable'' in 2020, opposite Refilwe Madumo. He also had roles in ''One Night KwaMxolisi'' and ''Heart of the Hunter'', and played one of the main characters in the 2023 TV series '' Devil's Peak'', based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Deon Meyer. Filmmaking Henna has been wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian Afrikaans, Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch language, Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the free Burghers, predominantly Dutch settlers and slavery in South Africa#Dutch rule, enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages including German language, German, Malay language, Malay and Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic language, analytic Morphology (linguistics), morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilton Pelser
Hilton Pelser is a South African actor. He is known for his roles in the Starz series '' Dangerous Liaisons'' (2022) and the ''Kissing Booth'' trilogy, as well as the films '' Moffie'' (2019) and '' Glasshouse'' (2021). Early life and education Hilton Pelser was born and raised in Cape Town. He attended the Bishops Diocesan College. He developed an interest in acting at a young age through his older sister, who was a professor of drama at AFDA. Career Pelser made his debut as Barry in the 2018 Netflix teen film '' The Kissing Booth'', as it was filmed in Cape Town. He would go on to reprise his role in the film's 2020 and 2021 sequels. He then played Sergeant Brand in Oliver Hermanus' film adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe's semi-autobiography '' Moffie'', which premiered at the 76th Venice Film Festival. Pelser appeared in the back-to-back television films ''Home Affairs: A Christmas Tale'' and ''Home Affairs: A Love Story'' in 2020 and 2021 respectively. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
