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A Zulu performance event.
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This title is found in the titles for two very different theatrical events:
  
See [[Peter Larlham]], 1984.
 
  
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=''[[Umongikazi]]'': a [[Zulu]] [[performance]] event=.
  
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See [[Peter Larlham]], 1984.
 
 
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''[[Umongikazi: The Nurse]]'' by [[Maishe Maponya]].
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=''[[Umongikazi: The Nurse]]'' by [[Maishe Maponya]]=
  
  
A play about the racism and incompetence in hospitals and makes a call for unionisation.  
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This is a highly politicized play about the racism and incompetence in hospitals and makes a call for unionisation.  
  
 
Published in ''[[Doing Plays for Change: Five Works]]'' (Edited by [[Ian Steadman]], 1995), ''[[Four Plays]]'' by [[Zakes Mda]] and ''[[Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays]]'' by [[Wits University Press]].
 
Published in ''[[Doing Plays for Change: Five Works]]'' (Edited by [[Ian Steadman]], 1995), ''[[Four Plays]]'' by [[Zakes Mda]] and ''[[Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays]]'' by [[Wits University Press]].

Revision as of 05:52, 11 February 2019

This title is found in the titles for two very different theatrical events:


=Umongikazi: a Zulu performance event=.

See Peter Larlham, 1984.


Umongikazi: The Nurse by Maishe Maponya

This is a highly politicized play about the racism and incompetence in hospitals and makes a call for unionisation.

Published in Doing Plays for Change: Five Works (Edited by Ian Steadman, 1995), Four Plays by Zakes Mda and Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays by Wits University Press.


1983: First performed at the Market Theatre by the Bahumutsi Players, directed by Maishe Maponya.

1983: Toured Britain and Germany in the same year.


Produced at the Market Theatre, date unknown. (NELM catalogue: [Collection: MARKET THEATRE]: 2007. 32. 9. 223).


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