Leleti Khumalo – MRQE

Yesterday (2004/I)

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday’s one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Faith’s Corner

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The storyline follows Faith and her two young sons, who live on the streets of Johannesburg as she works a busy street junction begging from passing motorists. With the little money she makes she tries to raise her children, although they often go to sleep hungry and scared. Faith not only has to face the apathy of the wealthy elite that pass her every day but also the distrust and anger of the locals. bizcommunity.com

Sarafina!

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.