Nyoni

by Louw Odendaal and Carl van Heerden. An Afrikaans play about a girl's conflict between love and respect for her father who betroths her to an unattractive crippled man to pay off debt, and her love for Debula. Before she can elope she drowns accidentally.

Full-length. Cast: mixed. Published by Voortrekkerpers, 1967.

Translated into Zulu as uNyoni by M.B. Khumalo (1986).

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