The theme of “exits and entrances” can be traced on various levels, e.g. on the personal level of death (Fugard’s father, the deaths of Marais and Huguenet) and birth (Fugard’s daughter); on the professional level (the ...

A study of dramatic language in a playwright’s oeuvre should, according to Vimala Herman (1995), not only focus on the interactive and interactional uses of dialogue, but should also include a discussion of the wider ...

This article gauges s 8 of South Africa’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and highlights its lack of clarity and prescriptive guidelines on crisis risk communication. Paragraph 8(2)(e) specifically obliges employers to ...

Sedert die demokratiese verkiesing in 1994 en die bevordering van nege addisionele inheemse tale tot die status van ampstaal in die Handves van Regte soos vervat in die interim Grondwet1 en die latere 1996-Grondwet,2 ...

Pieter Fourie’s Die Koggelaar (1988) is an important play in his oeuvre and one which has been commented on and discussed by various theorists. Most of these discussions focused on Boet Cronje as the protagonist of the ...

J.M. Coetzee’s use of the persona, Elizabeth Costello, in several short pieces as well as in The Lives of Animals, Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man has had a mixed reaction amongst reviewers and critics, and Costello herself, ...

This article focuses on the Afrikaans translations of Fugard’s plays – particularly the five plays translated by Idil Sheard and published by Maskew Miller Longman from 2005 to 2009. The discussion is placed within the ...

Early Hollywood films made use of certain codes and signifiers to imply aspects that were banned by boards of censors after the Great Depression. By using these codes filmmakers were able to say secretly much more than ...

The article aims to position JM Coetzee’s The lives of animals within the animal rights debate and assess both his use of and his failure to use key philosophical texts in the animal rights movement. This task is complicated ...

The canon that dictates that words be interpreted according to their ordinary meaning has been widely debated. Many studies have either highlighted the shortcomings of the ordinary meaning principle or have tried to debunk ...