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'''''[[Tshepang]]: The Third Testament, Based on 20,000 True Stories''''', a play by '''[[Lara Foot-Newton]]''' (2003). Published by [[Wits University Press]] in 2005.
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'''''[[Tshepang]]: The Third Testament (based on 20,000 true stories)''''', a play by '''[[Lara Foot-Newton]]''' (2003). Published by [[Wits University Press]] in 2005.
  
 
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Tshepang: The Third Testament (based on 20,000 true stories), a play by Lara Foot-Newton (2003). Published by Wits University Press in 2005.

Subject

Inspired by an horrific incident of infant rape that took place near Upington in the Northern Cape in 2001 - the 9-month-old baby survived and was named Tshepang (“to have hope”), because she was not infected with the HIVirus by her rapist(s).

Performance history in South Africa

The world premiére was staged by Duckrabbit at the Roots Festival in Amsterdam on 26 June 2003, directed by Lara Foot-Newton with Mncedisi Shabangu and Kholeka Qwabe. The same production was staged at the Grahamstown Festival in 2003, in the Market Theatre Laboratory in August 2003, at the Hilton Arts Festival in September 2003 and in the Baxter Theatre Sanlam Studio in November 2003.

After 2003 it was performed in various venues around the world, including the Gate Theatre, London, in September 2004.

Returned to the Market Theatre in February 2011.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

See: [Van Heerden (2008)][1]. p 186.


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