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== Career ==
 
== Career ==
He has been in theatre since circa 1980. He spent six years working both as playwright and actor in London, performing South African as well as other African plays and Japanese No theatre.
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He has been in theatre since circa 1980. He spent six years working both as playwright and actor in London, performing South African as well as other African plays and Japanese No theatre. In the early 2000s he was arts and cultural co-ordinator at the Centre for African Studies (UCT).
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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SESIU, Sabata(19**-19**). Actor, playwright.

Biography

Born in Lesotho.

Training

Has a Masters Degree from Leeds University.

Career

He has been in theatre since circa 1980. He spent six years working both as playwright and actor in London, performing South African as well as other African plays and Japanese No theatre. In the early 2000s he was arts and cultural co-ordinator at the Centre for African Studies (UCT).

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

Author of the plays Giants and The Legend of Murumba (1994), The Blue Song.

Awards, etc

Won the Rewards for Playwrights Initiative prize in 2000 for his play Giants.

Sources

Cape Times, 1 May 2000, 6.

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