Maishe maponya biography template pdf

The iconic playwright and performance poet,

Maishe Maponya Playwright, poet, lecturer, actor and director. When Maishe was 11, the family was forcibly removed to Diepkloof under the Apartheid laws, where he was then educated. He became an insurance clerk and began writing for the theatre in In he founded the Bahumutsi Drama Group of Soweto, thenceforth writing and producing his plays for them.

During the s the plays were also performed at the Market Theatre , and in The Hungry Earth now directed by Ian Steadman played at the National Theatre in London as a platform performance, and subsequently toured Britain and Germany along with Umongikazi. Harrassed and intimidated by security police during the Apartheid years, he was refused a passport in to accompany his plays abroad.

Peace and Forgive The Hungry Earth Umongikazi: The Nurse Busang Meropa A collection of Maponya's plays was published in Doing Plays for a Change in New Nation , May Sam Mathe. The sound and spirit of resistance", City Press 1 August, Andile Xaba.