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[[Give Us This Day]] is a musical play written by [[Mzwandile Maqina]].

== The original text ==
The play is about the life and death of Abram Onkgopotse Tiro, a South African student activist and a militant member of the Black Consciousness Movement, who was killed by a parcel bomb by apartheid authorities in Botswana in 1974.

The play used the graduation speech Tiro delivered at the University of the North on April 29, 1972, Tiro's self-exile in Botswana, and dealt with how Tiro came to open the parcel bomb that claimed his life in 1974.

"The play was written in a way that it could be any student of the time" he says. Maqina always took pains to conceal the political nature of his plays.

== Performance history in South Africa ==
Give us this Day was presented as a biblical story and performed in community halls across the country until late in 1976 when government officials finally caught up with the story and realised what the play was really about, which led to its banning.

2015: Now my children are resurrecting it as New Generation Production House. It was they who led the revival of Give Us This Day and who took it to Grahamstown in July." At this years [[National Arts Festival]], Maqina took a youngcast ofactors and actresses from Port Elizabeth, including some of his eight children. and staged Give Us This Day at Grahamstown's City Hall throughout the festival.

== Sources ==
Article by THABO JIJANA published in THE NEW AGE Date: 2015-10-02 Page: 27

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 "The play was written in a way that it could be any student of the time" Maqina says. He always took pains to conceal the political nature of his plays.
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 https://www.gov.za/news/media-statements/sport-arts-and-culture-passing-playwright-and-living-legend-mzwandile-maqina
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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-''Give Us This Day'' was presented as a biblical story and performed in community halls in the townships of Port Elizabeth, Makhanda (previously known as Grahamstown), Kimberly, Mafikeng, Bloemfontein and Soweto, before it travelled to Lesotho and Botswana. It toured until late in 1976 when government officials finally caught up with the story and realised what the play was really about, which led to its banning.
+-1976: ''Give Us This Day'' was presented as a biblical story and performed in community halls in the townships of Port Elizabeth, Makhanda (previously known as Grahamstown), Kimberly, Mafikeng, Bloemfontein and Soweto, before it travelled to Lesotho and Botswana. It toured until late in 1976 when government officials finally caught up with the story and realised what the play was really about, which led to its banning.
 : Presented at [[Dramfes '86]].

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-''Give us this Day'' was presented as a biblical story and performed in community halls across the country until late in 1976 when government officials finally caught up with the story and realised what the play was really about, which led to its banning.
+''Give Us This Day'' was presented as a biblical story and performed in community halls in the townships of Port Elizabeth, Makhanda (previously known as Grahamstown), Kimberly, Mafikeng, Bloemfontein and Soweto, before it travelled to Lesotho and Botswana. It toured until late in 1976 when government officials finally caught up with the story and realised what the play was really about, which led to its banning.
 : Presented at [[Dramfes '86]].

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	[[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.		[[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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 Article by Thabo Jijana, published in ''[[The New Age]]'', 2 October 2015. Page: 27.
-Xaba, Andile. 2021. 'Collective memory and the construction of a historical narrative, analysis and interpretation of selected Soweto-based community plays (1984–1994)'. Unpublished PhD thesis.
+[[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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 The play used the graduation speech Tiro delivered at the University of the North on April 29, 1972, Tiro's self-exile in Botswana, and dealt with how Tiro came to open the parcel bomb that claimed his life in 1974.
-"The play was written in a way that it could be any student of the time" he says. Maqina always took pains to conceal the political nature of his plays.
+"The play was written in a way that it could be any student of the time" Maqina says. He always took pains to conceal the political nature of his plays.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-Give us this Day was presented as a biblical story and performed in community halls across the country until late in 1976 when government officials finally caught up with the story and realised what the play was really about, which led to its banning.
+''Give us this Day'' was presented as a biblical story and performed in community halls across the country until late in 1976 when government officials finally caught up with the story and realised what the play was really about, which led to its banning.
-: Now my children are resurrecting it as New Generation Production House. It was they who led the revival of Give Us This Day and who took it to Grahamstown in July." At this years [[National Arts Festival]], Maqina took a youngcast ofactors and actresses from Port Elizabeth, including some of his eight children. and staged Give Us This Day at Grahamstown's City Hall throughout the festival.
+: It was Maqina's children who led the revival of ''Give Us This Day'' and who took it to Grahamstown in July." At this year's [[National Arts Festival]], Maqina took a young cast of actors and actresses from Port Elizabeth, including some of his eight children. and staged ''Give Us This Day'' at Grahamstown's City Hall throughout the festival.
 == Sources ==
-Article by THABO JIJANA  published in THE NEW AGE   Date: 2015-10-02   Page: 27
+Article by Thabo Jijana, published in ''[[The New Age]]'', 2 October 2015. Page: 27.

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