Stefan Erasmus stars in Address Unknown on Showmax
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Set during the days of apartheid in Cape Townâs District Six, comes a fulfilling story of a postman who will stop at nothing to mail to friends and neighbours who have disappeared without a trace, due to the forced removals by the government.
âAddress Unknownâ, is a 24 minute Afrikaans story starring Stefan Erasmus as postman Joey with Bianca Flanders as his co-star.
His journey begins after receiving a letter for his childhood friend, Ebie, played by Irshaad Ally. Joey sets off to look for him, despite the prevailing danger of the 1976 protests.
What would our martyrs say if they could see us now?
By Saths Cooper
April 6 – celebrated during the apartheid era from 1952-1994 as Founders Day (
Stigtingsdag) in recognition of Jan van Riebeeck’s landing in Table Bay and the subsequent Dutch settlement in Cape Town – is also the day on which the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) was founded, in 1959, after breaking away from the ANC.
Cynically, the apartheid regime hanged the 22-year-old Solomon Mahlangu at Pretoria Prison on that fateful day in 1979, after he was denied any appeal that focused on his not having killed anyone.
Like our numerous holidays, both official and unofficial, we have not been short of martyrs to remember since the advent of democracy after our historic general election of April 27, 1994.
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A decade after the release of Dylan Valley’s debut film, Afrikaaps: The Documentary, artists are working with Afrikaans in exciting ways to reflect on the history and future of the language.
“Now this,” says Nancy Richards, unwrapping a book that’s just landed in her postbox as she sees me off from her Mowbray home, “is an activist.” The book is Jwara! Induna’s Daughter by Joyce Notemba Piliso-Seroke.
We had been discussing what an “activist” is. Richards, whose name and voice are familiar to many South Africans, is a freelance journalist and, for more than two decades, presented a woman’s show in its various incarnations on SAfm, as well as presented SAfm Literature for many years.
But this is not what qualifies her as one of our Disrupters. It’s her work as the founder of Woman Zone CT, a non-profit organisation she started with a diverse group of women at The Kitchen (the famous, but now lost-to-Covid, restaurant of Karen Dudley) eight years ago. Woman Zone’s mission is to bring together women from across Cape Town to share their stories.