Dit sal die blêrrie dag wies
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["That’ll be the bloody day"] by Melvin Whitebooi. (“blêrrie” also spelled “bleddie” in some sources.) A play about the demolition of District Six, in which the protagonist Moegamat Salie refuses to move, and this leading to tragic consequences. First performed by the Cape Flats Players in 1982 at the Kellerprinz Drama Festival, where it won first prize. A popular play for CFP, who performed it again in 1984 and repeated it later in a revised form. A popular standard item in the Cape Flats Players’s repertoire throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including the KKNK in 1996.
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