Sarafina!
1992-09-18

Sarafina!

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.

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Leleti KhumaloWhoopi GoldbergJohn KaniMiriam MakebaMary TwalaDumisani DlaminiMbongeni NgemaTertius MeintjesRobert WhiteheadGreg LatterNicky RebeloJames WhyleMichelle BestbierPatrick NdlovuSomizi MhlongoSipho KuneneNhlanhla NgemaFaca KhuluWendy MselekuJames MthobaGideon de WetBheki MqadiPatrick ManqeleSibusiso NgemaZanele SangweniAyanda NhlangothiBafana HendricksPheto WildemanXolani DlaminiSiya NgcoboLouis SebokoSam NgakaneDoris SehulaDominic SkosanaIshmael BoikanyoSiphamandla NgcamuMfana 'Jones' HlopeCongo RadebeThulani DidiVincent NgobeseVukani DlaminiGugwana DlaminiDipou LehlongwaKhuluiwe SitholeBatho MhlongoBilly MashigoDixon MaleleEric SeemaVelaphi MsiniMate BashePrincess MsalaSbongile DingathaOlga MvicaneSindi DlathuMabusi GumedeKhanyo MaphumuloMmabatho RamoupiSonto KhumaloNonhlanhla SitholeSeipati SothoaneSindisiwe SokhelaVelile MchunuBrian 'Jazz' MazibukoThapi 'Joko' KhambuleGugu MkhizeLerato WildemanNokuzola DhlathuFuthi MhlongoRayhana MylesSibonakaliso SothoaneZanele RadebeAlfred NdlovuCyprian ShanduJohn LataMazwe ShabalalaPhakiso MotloungSduduzo MthethwaThulani MofokengMabonga KhumaloNkosane MzoloSduduzo MbiliSkhumbuzo KubhekaSindane MbathaStephen EvansDieketseng Mnisi

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