Eugene Marais was born in a farming community near Pretoria in Educated in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Province, he made journalism his first career.
By , he was editor of the newspaper Land en Volk, and two years later, at the age of 21, he owned it.
In he married, only to see his young wife, Jacoba, die the following the year, in July , at the age of 23, following the birth of their son. This was a tragic loss from which he never recovered.
Shortly afterwards he moved to London, where he studied law and medicine. By the time he was admitted to the bar at the Inner Temple, the Boer War was in progress, and Marais set out to return to Africa to assist his countrymen (although the war ended before he could make his way home).
In , he went to Johannesburg to establish himself as an advocate, but increasing depression of spirits drove him to retreat to Waterberg, a mountain area in northern Transvaal. Settling near a large group of chacma baboons, he became the first man to conduct a prolonged study of the primates in the wild. It was during this period that he produced My Friends the Baboons, and gathered the material for
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Foto van Katinka Heyns: Izak de Vries
Katinka Heyns is op se Internasionale Vrouedag deur die Indiese Filmfees in Suid-Afrika vir haar lewensbydrae tot die filmindustrie vereer.
Sy praat met Naomi Meyer oor hierdie toekenning, oor films wat sy geskep het of waarby sy betrokke was, en oor die filmbedryf.
Katinka, jy is nou onlangs, op Internasionale Vrouedag, deur die Indiese Filmfees in Suid-Afrika vir jou lewensbydrae tot die filmwese vereer. Baie geluk met die internasionale toekenning! Die Indiese filmindustrie is omvangryk; wat beteken ’n toekenning vanuit hul geledere vir jou?
Dit was ’n voorreg om op Internasionale Vrouedag vereer te word.
Mense soos Devi Govender is vereer en ek het die paneelbespreking onder leiding van Koo Govender geniet.
Indië as ideale bestemming vir verfilming is bespreek. Die fees is geopen deur die film PINK wat in isiZulu oorgeklank is met Engelse onderskrifte.
Ek het van meet af aan begin jeuk om Chris se boek Bundu, wat reeds in ’n draaiboek verwerk is deur Frederik de Jager, te vervaardig. Dis veeltalig en mens besef dat ons nie hoef vas te kyk in een taal nie. (Ek en Chr
Om die enigmatiese, veelsydige en briljante Eugene Marais se siel bloot te le. Dit was die uitdaging wat Katinka Heyns (regisseur) en Chris Barnard( draaiboek) op hulle geneem het. Wat op die grootskerm ontvou, is 'n liefdesdaad wat Marais en die ander karakters in hierdie episode van sy lewe met deernis uitbeeld.
Dit vertel die verhaal van 'n gesin wat Marais tydelik verblyf aanbied as hy op 'n dag met 'n hoe koors op hul plaas opdaag. Wat volg is 'n veelvlakkige manifestasie van Marais se leefwereld en wereldbeskouing wat sy tyd vooruit was. Ook die foltering van buitestaander wees en ' n ewige verlange na sy vrou wat hom vroeg ontval het. Teen die agtergrond van 'n patriagale gemeenskap verstaan 'n mens iets van Marais se posisie wat verskillende reaksies op sy swerwersbestaan, anders kyk na die lewe en diepe nuuskierigheid na 'n wye reeks verskynsels ten gevolg gehad het. Dit ontlok bewondering,spanning en diep menslike intrige wat die omtes van die hart verken.
Die sonderlinge liefdesverhaal tussen Marais en die jong Jane Bradshaw word op sober wyse aan die bod gestel. Ook is die emosionele ontwaking wat Marais by
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Katinka, dis jou eerste fliek in veertien jaar en die hele land is opgewonde net by die noem van jou naam. En met Chris Barnard wat die draaiboek skryf! (Is dit lekker om met jou man saam te werk, of stamp julle ook maar kop oor interpretasie van die teks?) Op hierdie wintersnag: Waarom die skepper van “Winternag”, die skrywer van Siel van die Mier, Skoppensboer” hoekom oor hom en hoekom nou?
Ek en Chris werk nou al 36 jaar saam. Dit klink vreemd, maar ons het nog nooit koppe gestamp oor die interpretasie van tekste nie. Ek vertrou hom as die skepper van die storie en ek en al die spelers vertolk die teks. Almal dien die teks. Hierdie draaiboek is weer eens karaktergedrewe en dis my kos. Om saam met die akteurs te delf en geloofwaardige karakters te skep. Chris skryf ritmies en sy dialoog is werklik ekonomies en funksioneel. Hierdie film word ’n intieme vertelling sonder groot gebare. Die drama ontvou stadig op ’n emosionele vlak.
Hoekom Marais? Hoekom nie? Dis tyd dat die boek oor Marais oopgemaak word. Hy was ’n ware prospekteerder. Iemand wat gedurig onder die oppervlak gemy
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