Mercy Kannemeyer

Mercy Kannemeyer is a South African playwright, screenwriter, director and academic/researcher. Her theatre work includes plays such as Boesak (2023), Woorde op akkoorde (2020), Die bul die wil nie (2020), Ons is nie almal so nie (2019), Ekstra large, asseblief? (2019/2020) and Prinz Betliegend (2018). She has also written for television, including Arendsvlei (2020–2022), and for Marie se laaste dag (2024) she received a kykNET Silwerskermfees award for best script (and best short film). Kannemeyer is involved in language and literary advocacy as vice-chairperson of PEN Afrikaans, and her stated research interests include language policy, adaptation, transculturalism, translanguaging, and the ‘reclaiming and recalibration’ of Afrikaans. She has been associated with Stellenbosch University in drama/theatre studies.