Writing

Saartjie Botha

No biography available.

Known For

Lien se LankstaanskoeneLien se Lankstaanskoene · 2013
Lien se Lankstaanskoene
7.32013
MovieDrama
This coming-of-age drama tells about a high school girl who resorts to begging to support her family. Lien Jooste’s life falls apart when her father is arrested for fraud and her mother develops a drinking problem. They lose everything and go from being an upstanding, affluent family living in a nice neighbourhood to a broken mess – living in a small flat and struggling to get by. Due to her mother’s drinking, Lien has to take on the role of mother for both her mom and her younger brother Braam.
BalbesitBalbesit
Balbesit
Movie
A play about rugby by Saartjie Botha.
Poppie NongenaPoppie Nongena · 2020
Poppie Nongena
8.02020
MovieDrama
Based on a true story: South Africa, mid 70s. When her husband becomes too ill to work, Poppie is deemed by the law to be an illegal resident in her own country. Based on the Elsa Joubert novel regarded as one of the best African novels of the century.
Krismis van Map JacobsKrismis van Map Jacobs · 2021
Krismis van Map Jacobs
2021
Movie
A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the way of life of the uprooted, their love and pain and the desperate longing for a better existence in a system that especially fails the defenseless.
Die SeemeeuDie Seemeeu · 2019
Die Seemeeu
2019
MovieDrama
Christiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.
CousinsCousins · 2025
Cousins
8.02025
SeriesDrama
Based on the double murders in 1965 of Issie Fourie and Petro Nel in the Free State province town of Odendaalsrus who were both abducted and murdered. Issie's brother, André decided to bring the perpetrator to justice - something that took 18 years.

Filmography

Sort