Tag: Nic Swanepoel

Paul Eilers: Actor-whisperer, with a heart of gold

TRIBUTE TO PAUL EILERS BY HUIBRECHT DE HART. SAY THE NAME “Paul Eilers”, and you may think of more than 40 years of audience applause. A versatile, well-loved, and highly skilled entertainer, Eilers passed away on 28 June 2019 of a heart attack. He was 74 years old. […]

Your son, in the cross hairs

ISSUES OF BRAVERY and selflessness in 1300s Europe, with all its rivalry and gallantry, come under the loupe in Radio Sonder Grense’s weekly Afrikaans-language radio play this week. It’s an interpretation of Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 play Wilhelm Tell, and translated into the Afrikaans and featuring lots of nips […]