Iconic Soweto Uprising Film ‘Sarafina!’ Scheduled to be Screened in Cinemas Across South on Youth Da
Iconic Soweto Uprising Film ‘Sarafina!’ Scheduled to be Screened in Cinemas Across South on Youth Day.Starring the South African actress Leleti Khumalo as the title character - a young student activist during the height of student resistance in apartheid South Africa, Whoopi Goldberg as her inspiring anti-apartheid activist teacher, and the late Miriam Makeba as her mother, the iconic 1992 film is being screened in cinemas across South Africa today, June 16th, 2016, for free, to mark the occasion that engraved this day in our history books 40 years ago. (Sarafina! the film in two parts)Originally written for the stage and composed by South African playwright Mbongeni Ngema in 1987, Sarafina! centers on the Soweto Uprising of 1976 where thousands of students gathered to protest against the system of education forced on them by the apartheid government that made Afrikaans - a language spoken primarily by white Dutch colonizers and settlers in the country - the medium of instruction in their schools. Unarmed and defenseless, students were met with heavily armed riot police who fired rounds into the masses of youngsters, resulting in several deaths and injuries, including that of 13-year-old Hector Pieterson whose death has become one of the most prominent and recognizable symbols of that day largely due to this photograph by Sam Nzima:In 1988, a documentary about the play was released titled Voices of Sarafina!: According to Channel24, these are the following cinemas where the film is set to be on view: Johannesburg: Maponya Mall, Southgate, Newtown Junction, Carlton Centre, Sandton, Eastgate, East Rand MallPretoria: Sterland, Brooklyn Commercial, Kolonnade Vanderbijlpark: Vaal Mall (new site opening on 16 June)Potchefstroom: Mooi RivierDurban: GatewayBloemfontein: Mimosa MallKimberley: North CapePort Elizabeth: Baywest Mall, The BridgeCape Town: Tygervalley, Blue Route, Parow, EikestadIn Kwa-Zulu Natal, Videovision Entertainment has teamed up with the KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission for community screenings from 20 to 26 June in Umlazi, Clermont, Chesterville, KwaMashu and The Bat Centre.In Johannesburg the The Soweto Theatre will show Sarafina! until 19 June and at the Jo’burg Theatre between 20 and 25 June. In Cape Town the film will be screened for school children from the Athlone and Mitchells Plain areas on 22 June.Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Soundcloud | Mixcloud -- source link
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