Genres:
Drama / Musical
Year:
1992
Language :
English
Director :
Darrell Roodt
Cast:
Whoopi Goldberg / Leleti Khumalo / Miriam Makeba / John Kani / Dumisani Dlamini / Mbongeni Ngema /Sipho Kunene / Tertius Meintjes / Robert Whitehead / Somizi Mhlongo / Nhlanhla Ngema / Faca Khulu / Mary Twala / Wendy Mseleku / James Mthoba
Storyline :
Whoopi Goldberg stars in this musical take on the South African struggles against Apartheid in the mid-1970s, during the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. An adaptation of Mbongeni Ngema's popular musical, which ran on Broadway from 1988 to 1989, Sarafina! recounts the political coming of age of the title character, a high school girl involved in the Soweto student protests of 1976. At first just a petulant bundle of energy, more interested in boys than civil rights, Sarafina (Leleti Khumalo) learns of the Afrikaaner oppression through the underground lectures of her teacher, Mary Masembuko (Goldberg). Sarafina's mother, who works as a servant in a white household and never sees her children, urges Sarafina to toe the line.
