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The tailored suit : a reimagining of Can Themba's The SuitLelliott, Kitso Lynn 22 September 2011 (has links)
This
research
report
examines
the
period
of
1950s
Sophiatown
and
its
socio-‐cultural
legacy
pertaining
to
race
and
gender.
Though
the
establishment
of
a
cosmopolitan
black
identity
was
significant
in
its
undermining
of
Nationalist
Party
segregationist
ideology,
the
struggle
for
equality
was
predicated
on
a
racial
struggle
that
subsumed
a
gendered
agenda.
The
work
of
Can
Themba
and
Drum
magazine,
which
have
become
mythologized
in
the
contemporary
South
African
imaginary,
are
interrogated
with
particular
emphasis
on
one
of
Themba’s
iconic
pieces,
The
Suit.
Through
engagement
with
Themba’s
text,
this
research
report
foregrounds
the
processes
through
which
black
women
have
been
subjected
to
multiple,
compounded
subjugation.
In
response
to
the
representations
of
black
femininity
in
The
Suit,
the
film
component
of
this
report,
The
Tailored
Suit,
privileges
the
black
woman,
Matilda’s,
articulations.
It
thus
functions
to
foreground
the
agency
of
marginalised
subjects.
In
articulating
from
the
periphery,
the
subjugated
destabilise
the
hierarchical
social
structures
that
would
subordinate
and
objectify
them.
By
engaging
the
representations
in
The
Suit,
part
of
an
iconic
historic
moment
prefiguring
the
contemporary
socio-‐cultural
milieu,
the
reimagining
in
The
Tailored
Suit
offers
a
fragmented
frame
of
reference,
positing
an
alternative
to
a
homogenising
masculine
discourse
on
history.
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Performing the township: pantsula for lifeVan Niekerk, Heather January 2018 (has links)
Pantsula dance is a performing art born from the townships of Johannesburg. It is a dance form performed across South Africa, in a variety of contexts; in theatres, music videos and competitions in community halls, on national and international stages and on television, and in the streets of townships, cities and suburbs across South Africa and abroad. Its performance is widespread, but it has its beginnings as a dance form born in areas created to marginalise and oppress. There is a scarcity of academic scholarship related to pantsula dance. This thesis aims to be a contribution to that pre-existing body of knowledge in the hope that there can be further engagement on this important, and increasingly mainstream, art form. I have focused my thesis on analysing pantsula dance as a performance of 'the township'. This has been attempted through an ethnographic engagement with pantsula dancers based in different township areas of Johannesburg and Graha mstown: various members of Impilo Mapantsula, Via Katlehong, Intellectuals Pantsula, Via Kasi Movers, Dlala Majimboz and the cast of Via Katlehong's Via Sophiatown. The research was conducted between 2013 and 2016 and serves to represent various moments within the ethnographic research process, while coming to understand various aspects of pantsula dance. An engagement with notions of 'the township', the clothing choices of the pantsula 'uniform', the core moves, inherent hybridity in the form itself, and the dedication to the dance form as a representation of the isipantsula 'way of life', are addressed throughout the thesis. As well as engaging with the memory and representation of Sophiatown as an important component to pantsula dance. Pantsula dance, an intrinsically South African dance form, provides a celebratory conception of 'the township' space and allows people from different backgrounds to engage in an important part of South Africa's past, present and future.
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"King Kong, bigger than Cape Town" : a history of a South African musical26 January 2011 (has links)
This dissertation analyzes the South African musical, King Kong, and its resounding impact on South African society throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. A “jazz opera” based on the life of a local African boxer (and not the overgrown gorilla from American cinema), King Kong featured an African composer and all-black cast, including many of the most prominent local musicians and singers of the era. The rest of the play’s management, including director, music director, lyricist, writer and choreographer, were overwhelmingly white South Africans. This inter-racial collaboration was truly groundbreaking in a nation where apartheid was officially enacted a little over a decade prior to King Kong’s 1959 debut. Relatively apolitical in its message, King Kong proved accessible to South African audiences regardless of race or background, and became overwhelmingly lauded as an endeavor that all of the country could enjoy and cherish. The musical successfully toured South Africa’s major metropolises, often to sold-out crowds. Its domestic success later spurred a tour of Britain in 1961, making it the first major South African theatrical production to be staged abroad. Due to the multi-racial efforts behind King Kong, its success and the high quality of its performers, the musical initiated a new era in South African music and theatre for decades to come.
Despite being based around King Kong, this dissertation contextualizes the production, as it uses King Kong’s creation, development and legacies to further analyze larger themes within South African and global histories. Each chapter, as a result, examines the evolution of the musical from the life story of the boxer from which the play is based, the musical’s making and tour of South Africa, the play’s 1961 tour of the United Kingdom, the experiences of the black casts in exile, and the failure of the play’s 1979 remake. By examining the play, its cast, and their collective legacies both in South Africa and further afield, this project complicates our understanding of the Black Atlantic framework by infusing Africans as active participants in these transnational discussions.
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The history of Tumelong Mission in the Diocese of Pretoria with specific reference to the period 1939-1996Kgomosotho, Daniel 11 1900 (has links)
During the period 1939 -1996 the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria sponsored Missions in disadvantaged
commun ies served by the Church. Socio-economic factors were largely responsible for the situation
of disempowered communities which lacked adequate resources in the spheres of education, healing
and commundevelopment This dissertation deals with Ekutuleni as a first model for later Missions in
the Diocese. The Mission at Sophiatown was established in 1927 and has ever since provided a
paradigm for the Anglican Chunch's involvement with disad.vantaged communities of the Transvaal.
The Chunch was able through the Work of Ekutuleni to meet the needs of the people of Sophiatown.
In 1939 Tumelong Mission was established by the Anglican Church at Lady Selbome, Pretoria. The
work of the Mission is evaluated against the background of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of
Pretoria. The dissertation puts Tumelong ir1 the context of the communities of Mabopane, Temba and
Ga-Rankuwa. Finally it puts Tumelong in the wider context of missions in the Transvaal. / Theology / Th. M. (Church History)
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The history of Tumelong Mission in the Diocese of Pretoria with specific reference to the period 1939-1996Kgomosotho, Daniel 11 1900 (has links)
During the period 1939 -1996 the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria sponsored Missions in disadvantaged
commun ies served by the Church. Socio-economic factors were largely responsible for the situation
of disempowered communities which lacked adequate resources in the spheres of education, healing
and commundevelopment This dissertation deals with Ekutuleni as a first model for later Missions in
the Diocese. The Mission at Sophiatown was established in 1927 and has ever since provided a
paradigm for the Anglican Chunch's involvement with disad.vantaged communities of the Transvaal.
The Chunch was able through the Work of Ekutuleni to meet the needs of the people of Sophiatown.
In 1939 Tumelong Mission was established by the Anglican Church at Lady Selbome, Pretoria. The
work of the Mission is evaluated against the background of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of
Pretoria. The dissertation puts Tumelong ir1 the context of the communities of Mabopane, Temba and
Ga-Rankuwa. Finally it puts Tumelong in the wider context of missions in the Transvaal. / Theology / Th. M. (Church History)
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Imagined Communities: The Role of the Churches During and After Apartheid in SophiatownMafuta, Willy January 2016 (has links)
Many around the world have come to know South Africa as the rainbow nation, yet this notion has been subject to enormous critiques in the political discourse. The rainbow nation was conceived by the Government of National Unity that came to power in 1994, but it failed to materialize. What post-apartheid South Africa has yielded instead is a nation, or an imagined community, where race and ethnicity never receded. Although they are no longer pathological, race and ethnicity have become normative typifications of an overarching identity. Churches in particular have played a major role in creating a new identity.
Churches have managed to move beyond the yoke of race and ethnicity enforced during the Apartheid under the Group Areas Act and the Resettlement Acts, and epitomized by the destruction of the vibrant city of Sophiatown and, in its place, the building of Triomf, an Afrikaner imagined community. Churches have led the way in deconstructing the perceived or realized power or disempowerment that is residual to the Apartheid. In reconstructing the community, they have re-imagined an environment where race and ethnicity remain the standard component of the South African national identity. This re-imagining requires that race and ethnicity be constructed as relational rather than hierarchical. Moreover, it requires that one acknowledge the woundedness (e.g., shame, anger, guilt, hurt, humiliation, betrayal, fear, resentment) that racial typifications create. As a social construction, Churches in Sophiatown are fostering this ethical environment where these values are embraced.
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Social control in the 20th century and its impact on households: A case study of disarticulation from Sophiatown to Meadowlands, SowetoShiba, Thando Monica 18 May 2021 (has links)
In South Africa, racial discrimination was witnessed through renowned segregationist acts including the Group Areas Act (No:41) of 1950, which forcibly displaced families from their homes and triggered significant social upheavals and the callous disintegration of long-established communities such as Sophiatown. The removals were a political strategy to relocate so-called “non-white” people from the inner city to townships such as Meadowlands explicitly chosen for their hazardous impure land known as mine dumps (Rodgers 1980:76). These displacements had a paradox of intergenerational homelessness triggered by instrumental racism that influenced politics of space and in effect, the disarticulation of the lives of black South Africans (Milgroom and Ribotc 2019:184). Therefore, it is important to undertake a study investigating the circumstances that gave rise to these forced removals, the subsequent breakdown of social order, a typical consequence of population relocation, which merits an examination of the contemporary implications and ramifications of disarticulation and highlights, in this regard, some significant shortcomings in post-Apartheid governance. / Anthropology and Archaeology / M.A. (Anthropology)
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Kofifi/Covfefe: How the Costumes of "Sophiatown" Bring 1950s South Africa to Western Massachusetts in 2020Hollows, Emma 15 July 2020 (has links)
This thesis paper reflects upon the costume design process taken by Emma Hollows to produce a realist production of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company’s musical Sophiatown at the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in May 2020. Sophiatown follows a household forcibly removed from their homes by the Native Resettlement Act of 1954 amid apartheid in South Africa. The paper discusses her attempts as a costume designer to strike a balance between replicating history and making artistic changes for theatre, while always striving to create believable characters.
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