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This Africa Month, theatre houses across the country are staging shows that will help celebrate and reflect on Africa’s rich and diverse cultural identities and heritage. As we mark this important time as a continent, we look at some of the theatre productions that celebrate the pride of the African people. These theatre productions also recognised the struggles and victories of the African people. The plays unpack societal issues including race, childhood traumas, gender-based violence, healing and humanity. Kunene and the King “How do you put a nation’s history on stage?” In this remarkable play, John Kani, as formidable a writer as he is an actor, does it through a confrontation between two men who represent polarised aspects of the South African experience. Marking 25 years since the country’s first…
TV and radio personality Penny Lebyane, pictured, recently took to Twitter to support the Sports, Arts and Culture Department’s decision to spend R22 million to install a massive flag and flagpole to be known as the South African National Monumental Flag. Lebyane clapped back at multi-media personality Bonang Matheba, who recently tweeted against the flag, saying that the minister is “useless” and “we hate” him. She tweeted: “Obviously @NathiMthethwaSA is not liked by a whole industry that hates itself so nothing new there for me. But l have a question. “How did they build your favourites, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Statue Of Liberty in New York, Christ The Redeemer in Rio De Janeiro? Why do u like them?” The tweet sparked outrage, leaving other celebrities questioning her loyalty to…
JUST hours after the formal installation of human rights lawyer and retired Constitutional Court judge, Justice Edwin Cameron, as chancellor, hundreds of Stellenbosch University (SU) students protested against institutionalised racism festering on its campus. Around 300 protesters, supported by the Student Representative Council (SRC), the South African Student Congress, and the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command, gathered to hand over a memorandum of demands under the #RacismMustFall Stellenbosch University Student Movement. The movement said SU did not only produce the founders of apartheid, with graduates including Hendrik Verwoerd, DF Malan, and FW de Klerk, but it also produced apartheid policies that oppressed black people post-1948 after the National Party came to power. Video footage of a white student, Theuns du Toit, urinating inside the room and on the desk of…
Sangoma calls for cleansing after the death of three ANC mayors in less than a year FOLLOWING the death of the third City of Joburg ANC mayor in less than a year, questions have been asked about whether the position is cursed. Mpho Moerane succumbed on Wednesday evening to his injuries he sustained in a car crash a week ago . He served a brief stint as mayor after the passing away of mayor Jolidee Matonga last year. There were murmurings that there was foul play and witchcraft related to Moerane’s accident, however, his family dismissed the claims. According to the Moerane’s family, his accident was caused by a rock that he drove into in Bowling Avenue. He was on his way from a meeting to his home in Bryanston…
Omniland will be auctioning a game and lucerne farm on the Crocodile River next Saturday at noon on site, at Portion 13 of the farm Boschkop near Northam and Thabazimbi. The 167 hectare property has a private lodge, which sleeps about 100, and conference rooms. The accommodation includes 20 double rooms with en suite bathrooms and a kitchenette and 13 chalets. There is also a wedding/conference facility, swimming pools, six caravan stands and ablution blocks. There are hiking trails in the vicinity and fishing in the Crocodile River. In addition, there is staff accommodation; five storerooms; a 4 500m² greenhouse with four 5 000 litre water tanks and a pressure pump for irrigation; a milking parlour and chicken coops. The property has Eskom transformers and a generator. It has game…
The prosecuting authority has finally decided to prosecute the serving SAPS general following the intervention of AfriForum. It is claimed that the general humiliated 53-year-old Captain Riana Stander (previously Viviers) and others. The incident is said to have taken place in November 2016 when the general – who cannot be identified at this stage – visited the SAPS Academy in Oudtshoorn. According to AfriForum, the general instructed Stander and others to stand on the stage and in front of about 450 recruits. She allegedly made derogatory remarks about Stander’s attire, weight and the colour of her skin. This was met with applause and cheers from the rest of the recruits. It is claimed that the general then remarked that “the stage was too white”. Stander subsequently opened a case against…
