Linda Wa Ka Shabangu

  In a life-circle of an individual,being born and raised in the township can forever be or is a wound grasping for free-will to find self-expression from childhood to adulthood,a personal/collective need from within to untraumatize away parts of our suppressed characteristics and belong without any historical narration of immigration into the period of industrial labour,to the lest unforgotten Apartheid regime,to the suffocating new dawn,we just want to break-free from the chains of installation,to decolonise our pychological/mental disabilities and liberate ourselves from the voice of all forms of oppression. Impilo Yase Kasi is always on survival mode each and every second on the clock,everyone is caught in a web struggling to put food on the table by night fall,there's no time to focus on what's happening in the world unless it affects the condition and politics of stomach. A bread winner is a common phrase used to describe the majority of black households,with one stream o

BLACKS DONT CRY  "The subject of the play is the governing party and the poor quality of life black people are subjected and accustomed to everyday under the black leadership.The play grapples with the stubborn persistence of failure and lack of accountability on the part of the powers that be. It also looks at the effects of corruption and looting of money and the constant abuse of power by the ruling party and what it all means for economic underclasses and foot soldiers who are carriers of generations of grief, sorrow and the continuous trauma that comes with being black. The relative success of the production lays in the entire ensemble from writing,staging,acting and directing. The play displayed nonconformist narratives that underlined the struggles of black men in past, present and future in the truest form The play formed part of the Siyazikhakhazisa Theatre Festival held at Breytenbach Theatre in Pretoria.It features actors: Siphiwe Phiri who plays the character of (Morek