Donaldson Orlando Cultural Club

A community centre and community hall in Soweto, originally funded by the Donaldson Trust, later by different organisations and trusts and run by people who live in Soweto. Mandla Dube was in charge in the early 1980s. Uncomfortably squeezed into a corner of one of Soweto's busiest streets, the DOCC had no dedicated theatre space, just a fairly big room called "the hall" which offered little more than an all-purpose space with no theatrical facilities. Productions there include Maishe Maponya’s The Hungry Earth (1979), Pula (1982) ***

For more information
Kruger, 1999: 141, 164; Wakashe, 1986

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