'n Sisteemteoretiese perspektief op die vertaling van Suid-Afrikaanse literatuur in Nederlands

English: Within the framework of the system- and the translation theories, the translation of South African, and more specific of Afrikaans, literary texts into Dutch was researched. This study centres around the fact that there was a dramatic increase in the amount of South African literary translations into Dutch from the early seventies, but that the contrary did not take place. An attempt was made to find out what the reasons were behind this phenomenon and which factors played a part in it. The view on translations in this study corresponds to that of the Leuven group who based their models on the polysystern theory by Iramar Even-Zohar. According to this theory translation goes far beyond the boundaries of the text to incorporate the interaction between various literary systems. Even-Zohar developed the principles for a dynamic and heterogenious system in order to provide for the historical and variable nature of literature. Within this approach the focus has also changed from translation as transfer of languages, to translation as transfer of cultural norms. The benefits of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological approach and Siegfried Schmidt's contructivistic approach are implemented in the study in the incorporation of agents and the various actions that take place within the literary field. Furthermore an overview was given of the historical events and actions which created and still creates a dialogue between the Dutch and the South African literary systems. The history between these two countries is marked by an initial unanimity which is especially visible in the support that the Dutch gave the Boers during the Anglo Boer War. As a result of the Dutch peoples' experience and guilt feelings which arose from the Holocaust and the, practically simultaneous, implementation by the South African government of a discriminatory apartheid system in 1948, an animosity developed between these two countries. This split results in the annulment of the Dutch South African Cultural Agreement in the early eighties. Since the first democratic election in 1994 this Cultural Agreement has been renewed and a revival took place in the Dutch peoples' interest.in South Africa and the literature of the country. In the course of this study it came to light that the large increase in translations since the seventies of especially English (South African) literature into Dutch, can be attributed to the translation of' protest literature. On the other hand, the increase in translated Afrikaans literary texts since the nineties can be attributed to the changed political circumstances in South Africa which also positively influenced the Dutch peoples' attitude towards Afrikaans and Afrikaans literary texts. There seems to be a renewed interest in the literary value of South African texts and especially in texts which portray the magical atmospheer, nature and exotic elements of Africa. This preference is clearly visible in the reception of literary texts by Riana Scheepers in the Dutch literary system. Finally, based on statistical principles, a projection is made of the amount of South African literary texts which could be translated into Dutch over the next decade. The projection made is conservative because it is based on the average growth of translations per decade and not on the increased growth which took place over the past thirty years. The assumption is made that the upsurge in translations since the seventies can possibly be attributed to the political events and changes in South Africa and in the interest that it evoked in South African literary texts with a political tendency. If the political climate in South Africa will stabilise over the next ten years, there should still be an increase in the amount of translations, but at a more average growth.