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Emotional texture: Zilungile Mbombo, Mfuneli Ntumbuka and Alex Sono. The script is sharp, witty and moving. Photos: Fiona MacPherson
FEESMUSTFALL

‘Rise ’76’ confronts a generation haunted by how little it has done with its inherited freedom

A powerful and emotionally layered theatrical work revisits the 1976 Soweto Uprising through testimony, memory, contradiction and unresolved generational grief

  • Unathi Kondile
5 min read
A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance
AUGUSTO BOAL

‘Isitha Sabantu’: The new frontier for anti-colonial theatre

A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance

  • Fezokuhle Mthonti
7 min read