South African People's Plays

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South African People's Plays is a collection of radical South African plays selected and introduced by Robert Kavanagh.

The volume

Bearing the tsotsitaal subtitle "Ons Phola Hi" ("we play here"), it is a collection of plays selected and introduced by Robert Kavanagh.

Published in London by Heinemann as Issue 224 of their African Writers Series in 1981 (ISBN 9780435902247), the volume was banned for many years in South Africa.

Contains

Too Late by Gibson Kente,

Shanti by Mthuli Shezi;

uNosilimela by Credo Mutwa

Survival by Workshop '71.


Sources

SACat, a union catalogue of items held by Southern African libraries.

https://www.amazon.com/South-African-Peoples-Plays-Writers/dp/0435902245#:~:text=South%20African%20People's%20Plays%20consists,Africa%20during%20the%20apartheid%20period.

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