A musical that’s almost the same age as its performers, that’s Sarafina! for you. But what makes Sarafina! even more endearing is that it was adapted into a well-loved, critically acclaimed film that ...

It is easy to relegate Sarafina! to just being a film that is screened only on Youth Day to remind black people why they are still angry at their white neighbours. Being prepared for lives of ...

Set in 1976, in South Africa, black students are injured during a protest. Led by a fellow classmate, the students present a play about the symbolic Day of Liberation they all dream of—when their ...

Residents, parents, educators and learners came together to mark Youth Day at Hoërskool Jeugland with a vibrant play honouring the lives lost during the 1976 Soweto uprising. The school was filled ...

In celebration of its 30th anniversary Sarafina! will screen in South African cinemas on Wednesday, 15 June. e.tv will have red carpet showings at Nu Metro in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban before ...

It’s been 31 years since Sarafina! hit our screens. It is a movie that proclaims how women were at the forefront of the struggle and it is fitting that the remastered version should come out during ...

The film celebrates its 33rd anniversary in 2025 and on June is a Youth Month we remember its story, depicting the events of the Soweto Riots in June 1976.

Sarafina! is rightfully lauded as a great film here at home and in many parts of the world because of its succinct depiction of the watershed events of June 16 1976. The South African film is a ...

Iconic Broadway play Sarafina by Mbongeni Ngema about the 1976 Soweto uprising opened at the Playhouse Company in Durban in July. Delisile Gumbi, 22, from Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal plays the lead ...

JOHANNESBURG — This year marks the 40th anniversary of the June 16 youth uprisings in 1976, and no work of art has immortalised the date like Sarafina! Mbongeni Ngema’s critically acclaimed musical, ...

Troika is looking for a cast for Sarafina!, the South African musical that became a worldwide hit. The show will run as Work in Progress #8 under the direction of Nhlanhla “Lucky” Ngema, who performed ...