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The film is a retelling of the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson set in 1950s France. Jean-Louis Barrault plays Dr. Cordelier/Opale, the substitute for Dr. Jekyll/Hyde character; the film is also known for its visual style that is far above the normal television programs of the 1950s. [2]
Donald du Toit, FCS., FRCS., is a South African specialist general surgeon, clinician and emeritus professor as well as chief of Anatomy and Histology and previous ad hominem professor of surgery at the University of Stellenbosch. [1] In 1982 he held the post of principal academic surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital (Parow, South Africa).
Du Toit recorded this calamity in the poem "O die pyn-gedagte" (literally "Oh the pain-thoughts"). Du Toit was responsible for much of the translation of the Bible into Afrikaans, finishing what his father Stephanus Jacobus du Toit had begun. He also put a huge amount of work into producing poetic versions of the Psalms in Afrikaans. His poetry ...
Alexander Logie du Toit FRS [1] (/ d uː ˈ t ɔɪ / doo-TOY; 14 March 1878 – 25 February 1948) was a geologist from South Africa and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.
Francois Jacobus du Toit (25 August 1897 - 17 March 1961) was a South African journalist and economist who represented the Union of South Africa as Trade Commissioner in London, and later served as chancellor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.
While his ideas attracted a few early supporters such as Alexander Du Toit from South Africa, Arthur Holmes in England [27] and Milutin Milanković in Serbia, for whom continental drift theory was the premise for investigating polar wandering, [28] [29] the hypothesis was initially met with scepticism from geologists, who viewed Wegener as an ...
In 1976, in South Africa during apartheid, Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a South African school teacher at a school for whites only.One day, the son of his gardener, Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), gets beaten by the white police after he gets caught by the police during a peaceful demonstration for a better education policy for black people in South Africa.
An early map drawn by George Paton on the eve of the discovery of diamonds mentions 'Teuzpan' which, when pronounced in the German way, sounds the way local Dutch/Afrikaans-speaking farmers would have pronounced (Du) Toit's Pan. [2] The name refers also to one of the major mines in Kimberley, the Dutoitspan mine.