Ralph Mzamo

Ralph Mzamo is a South African born journalist, film-maker, freedom fighter and commander in Umkhonto we Sizwe.

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

While in exile in England in the 1980s, he was briefly a freelance film maker with Mark Sebba, making several educational documentaries on South African political issues under the aegis of a workshop-based production company called Meridian Productions.

Among films the made by Meridian Productions 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

A fourth production, Apartheid Underground, featured a British coalface miner who visited South Africa at the invitation of the black miners' union N.U.M. in 1986. This production was not released.

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]

Moffat Hadebe, "I was once senior to Mangena and Masuku", The Sunday News, 22nd August 2021. [3]

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