Our unreconciled past poisons the water of our present: These are anxious and broken times. An epoch when democracies are failing people, who are failing each other, as we withdraw further into personal digital sarcophaguses.
The hilarious script uses wordplay, puns and rhyming couplets that are almost Shakespearean in their farcical tragedy, to poke fun at the political elite’s penchant for opaque, obsequious, dogmatic and bombastic language that is more long-winded than one of Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe’s farts during a study group on renewables.
As Mr Nxumalo, the head kleptocrat observes: “Everyone has a price, Mr Hoko, a secret to hide, or a debt to settle.” As described by former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke and constitutional court justice Edwin Cameron in their minority dissent in the apex court’s first Glenister judgment, “corruption in the polity corrodes the rights to equality, human dignity, freedom, security of the person and various socio-economic rights”. These are being starkly felt by the majority of South Africa’s citizens.observed during a roaring big band performance to close the Jazz Festival : “We are all in this together.
Certainly, life is never simple. And people are full of contradictions and hypocrisies. This was made plain in the consummate staging and performance ofA play written byand directed by Jay Pather, it focuses on the choices a London couple have to make when their teenage son harbours a Pakistani friend who the courts have decided must be returned home.
Do they pay the young boy to disappear or do they turn him in with “faith in the system” that he will be taken care of?
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