Grethe Fox says she can’t live without books. ‘I have to read before I can get to sleep. I think this is because my parents read to my brothers and I every night. Many of those early books have stayed with me to this day. After writing this, I want to say: “Parents please. You must [...]

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Ricky Bopape – Director & writer of We On Air
Emerging director and playwright Ricky Bopape is taking his play We On Air – Radio Nonesense 69.4-5 to the National Arts Festival Fringe. We On Air is a light-hearted comedy based on the exciting and ever-evolving world of a radio station – Radio Nonsense on [...]

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Synonymous with log fires and red wine, Cape Town in June is also known for the buzz of the annual Book Fair. Taking place at the impressive Cape Town International Conference Centre, it is a much anticipated event on the cities calendar, and Johannesburg-based David Krut Publishing has had a booth at both years of the Fair’s existence with David and Bronwyn Law Viljoen, Managing Editor of David Krut Publishing in attendance.

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The reality-tv competition ‘Strictly come Dancing’ features Grethe teamed up with Harold van Buuren, the internationally acclaimed choreographer and champion dancer.
The highlight of last week’s performance was arguable Grethe’s perfectly executed split during Rumba. Strictly come Dancing is broadcast live on SABC 2 at 8pm Saturday evenings until 23 September.
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Sannie Uys
Sannie Uys is gebore op die plaas KADIE aan die Breerivier, maar het grootgeword op die plaas Bontebokskloof aan die voet van die Langeberge in die distrik Swellendam. Sy het skoolgegaan aan die Hoer Meisieskool Bloemhof in Stellenbosch, waar sy ook musiek bestudeer het.
In 1908 trou sy met die legendariese Springbok Japie Krige. Sy [...]

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Grethe Fox has worked as a leading actress in over 60 theatre productions, 10 television dramas, 18 television series and 9 feature films. Grethe has starred in many productions directed by Marthinus Basson, including Madonna; in Breyten Breytenbach’s first play, Boklied; Masha in Reza de Wet’s Drie Susters Twee; and most recently in Die Goue [...]

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Interview with Grethe Fox by the Mail & Guardian, weekly newspaper in South Africa

Die Goue Seun – Theatre work in Afrikaans
Among the new works of Afrikaans drama that opened at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK) in Oudsthoorn in April 2002 was DIE GOUE SEUN (THE GOLDEN BOY) about the much loved poet Uys [...]

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