Pinholes against apartheid A Brief History of Political Theatre in South Africa Joachim Fiebach The history of political theatre in South Africa is a turbulent one: The Township Theatre of Athol Fugard, that won fame in the 1970s and 1980s, just like the travelling theatre of Gibson Kente or the launch of Barney Simons famous Market Theatre, are the fruits of a theatre movement that had been growing throughout an almost hundred year period. The influence of this movement resonates right through to contemporary South African theatre – even Paul Grootboom
Political Theatre and Cultural Activism in the Free State Province, South Africa The vacuum lef t by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko Montshiwa K. Moshounyane “Comrade Moleko was a giant among men; he knew that in order to fulfil the majority of the aspirations of our artists, he had to sacrifice his artistic career.” (Roda 2013: 14) The aim of this Chapter is to profile the life and times of the late Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko as a pioneer of political theatre and cultural activism in South Africa’s Free State province, with the view to highlight the
