Channel 48

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Channel 48 is a play by Solomzi Bisholo.


The original text

The play is a moving tragic comedy about Steve Biko and Neil Agget. In Bisholo’s play the apartheid era state leader, BJ Vorster, is called to account for the “unexplained deaths” of Biko and Aggett.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1988: Directed by Solomzi Bisholo. Cast : Solomzi Bisholo. Presented at the Funda Centre and Market Theatre.

Sources

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

Andile Xaba. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.

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