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Play Review: Cadre...

Omphile Molusi in character!  Image provided by The Market Theatre  Ever sat with a struggle veteran and had a conversation about pre-democracy South Africa and the things he/she went through during the fight for equality?  I have, well she is my mother and through her I've met and sat in on many conversations about the apartheid years. Thanks to my internship year at City Press I was also privileged to interview people who were there in the heat of the Sharpeville Massacre , 21 March 1960. As much as my mother and many like her are open to sharing about the struggle, there is so much that I feel they went through that they can never put into words…whether it’s by choice or that there are a lack of words to describe what they went through, one will never know. Cadre , a play written by Omphile Molusi which is currently on at the Market Theatre speaks about stories left unsaid by struggle heroes.  Lillian Tshabalala, Omphile and Sello ...