A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women's long wait for absent men скачать в хорошем качестве

A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women's long wait for absent men

(5 Mar 2025) ASSOCIATED PRESS Johannesburg - 26 February 2025 1. Various shots of Winnie Mandela play 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Momo Matsunyane, director “I guess what the play seeks to do is to try and understand the kind of figure that Mama Winnie was and the role that she played in the struggle. But more than anything, the one thing she has in common with these other women is the fact that they have all waited. And as the writer is grappling with the idea of Mama Winnie, especially because once there was democracy in South Africa, she became vilified and almost an enemy.” 3. Various shots of Winnie Mandela play 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Momo Mastunyane, director “Let's try and understand the ordinary black South African women's journey. And we realize that through their journeys, they are all very similar to the journey that Mama Winnie experienced. And so what I really sought to do with the play was to make her as human as possible. I wanted to humanize her. I wanted us to see ourselves in her and her story.” 5. Various shots of Winnie Mandela play 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Momo Matsunyane, director “It tries to investigate what happens to the family unit when you are in waiting in limbo and expecting some sort of result at the end, and we see some of the tragic stories and the endings of these women that their lives...they continued, but, to a huge degree, didn't move.” 7. Various shots of Winnie Mandela play 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Momo Matsunyane, director “Nelson Mandela was framed and and contextualized as someone who is the hero of the struggle. You know, of course, he wasn't the only one and we know that. And I think... but what is important about this play is that it does problematize him, you know, very often some might say he was an absent father. Of course, it wasn't by his choice, but he was an absent father. And so what happens to children being raised in a home where there's no dad?” 9. Various shots of Winnie Mandela play STORYLINE: A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison or faraway work during decades of white minority rule. The play about the late former wife of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first Black president, is adapted from the novel “The Cry of Winnie Mandela” by Njabulo Ndebele. It explores themes of loneliness, infidelity and betrayal. At the height of apartheid, Madikizela-Mandela was one of the most recognizable faces of South Africa’s liberation struggle while her husband and other freedom fighters spent decades in prison. That meant constant harassment by police. At one point, she was banished from her home in Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg and forcefully relocated to Brandfort, a small rural town she had never visited nearly 350 kilometers (217 miles) away. Even after she walked hand-in-hand with her newly freed husband in 1990 and raised her clenched fist, post-apartheid South Africa was tumultuous for her. Madikizela-Mandela, who died in 2018 aged 81, was accused of kidnapping and murdering people she allegedly suspected of being police informants under apartheid. She also faced allegations of being unfaithful to Mandela during his 27 years in prison. Those controversies ultimately led to her divorce from Mandela, while their African National Congress political party distanced itself from her. The isolation and humiliation inspired Ndebele to write about Madikizela-Mandela for South Africa's post-apartheid generations. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...