User:Jgpotgieter

Jgpotgieter is the Wikipedia username of Johann Gerrit Potgieter, a South African journalist and screenwriter. Born Novemeber 14 1950, at Postmasburg in what is now the Northern Cape Province of democratic South Africa. He is (twice) divorced, and is the father of Sebastian Johann Shore Potgieter. He has worked as a writer on feature films like The Long Run, Windprints, Halfmanspunt, Hond se Dinges, Vyfster: Die Slot, and on television series like Hoekie vir Eensames, Vyfster II, Rosie, The Game I, II, and III, and Known Gods. As a journalist he is mostly associated with human interest and political stories based in the "coloured" communities of the Great Karoo in the 1980s, published in The Argus in Cape Town at the time. He served as political correspondent of The Evening Post and parliamentary correspondent of The Natal Witness briefly in the early 1980s. He is a socialist by persuasion, and a Catholic.