Mark Sebba
Mark Sebba (1956-) is a South African born linguist, film-maker and contributor to ESAT.
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Biography
Born in Cape Town in 1956. Lived in Johannesburg until 1978.
Attended the University of the Witwatersrand 1974-77, majoring in Linguistics, Mathematics and Russian. He left the country in 1978 for England where he completed a PhD in Linguistics at York University and MSc at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and spent about 35 years as a researcher and lecturer in Linguistics, mostly at Lancaster University in England.
He retired in 2021, and became a contributor to ESAT in 2024.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He had a brief career as a freelance film maker in the 1980s, during which time he made several educational documentaries on South African issues with Ralph Mzamo, a South African exile, under the aegis of a workshop-based production company they formed under the name Meridian Productions.
Among them are:
Laurie Nathan: Working for a Just Peace. Interview with the national organiser of the End Conscription Campaign, Meridian Productions 1987.
South Africa 1987: The Church at the Crossroads. Interview with Chris Langeveld, parish priest of a Soweto neighbourhood. Meridian Productions
Wally Serote - South African Poet. Wally Serote in conversation with Ralph Mzamo. [Meridian Productions]] 1987
Sources
E-mail correspondence from Mark Sebba (including brief biography) (19 September, 2024)
Films by Mark Sebba and Ralph Mzamo on YouTube[1]]
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