Muntu wa Bachaki
Muntu wa Bachaki (?-) is an actor, playwright and poet.
Political pseudonym of Angifi Proctor Dladla.
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Biography
Angifi Proctor Dladla was born on 24 November 1950 in Thaka township in Gauteng, formerly the Transvaal. His mother was a domestic worker and his father, initially a teacher, went into industry. After his parents’ divorce in his early childhood, he moved from Irene to Kgabalatsane, to Shoshanguve, visiting his father in KwaDukathole and later, Katlehong.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Muntu wa Bachaki was the director of the Akudlalwa Communal Theatre on the East Rand.
Founding member of Bachaki Theatre in 1987.
Wrote and directed the play Top Down (1988).
Sources
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
Kelwyn Sole. 'Poet Angifi Proctor Dladla'. Poetry International. https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-17853_Dladla
