Ralph Mzamo

Ralph Mzamo is a South African born journalist, freedom fighter and film-maker.

Biography

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

While in exile in the 1980s, he had a short-lived career as a freelance film maker with Mark Sebba, making some educational documentaries on South African political issues under the aegis of an 'invented' production company called Meridian Productions.

Among films the made by the company 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 (19 September, 2024)

Films by Mark Sebba and Ralph Mzamo on YouTube[1]]

Julie Frederikse. 1987. Interview with Ralph Mzamo. The Unbreakable Thread: non-racialism in South Africa, published by Ravan Press, 1990. (Transcript: SAHA collection AL2460 [2]

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