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Kalushi (film)
''Kalushi'' is a 2016 South African film about Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu (10 July 1956 – 6 April 1979) was a South African freedom fighter, struggle activist and operative of the African National Congress (ANC) militant wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). He was convicted of murder and hanged in ..., a nineteen-year-old hawker from the streets of Mamelodi, a township outside Pretoria in South Africa. He was born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956, the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father left him in 1962, and from then on only saw him infrequently. His mother was a domestic worker and took sole responsibility for his upbringing. The film is based on a true story. Plot Kalushi is brutally beaten by the police. He goes into exile following the 1976 Soweto uprisings to join the liberation movement. He returns from military training in Angola. ''En route'' to their mission, his friend and comrade, Mondy, loses control and shoots two innocent people on G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thabo Rametsi
Thabo Andrew Rametsi II (born 17 July 1988), popularly as Thabo Rametsi, is a South African actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in the popular serials ''The Giver'', ''The Gamechangers'' and '' Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu''. Personal life He was born on 17 July 1988 in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He later moved to Kempton Park and studied at Norkem Park Primary School and later attended to Norkem Park High School. During school times, he developed his skills of acting, and acted in several television commercials and plays. He later graduated with a degree in law at UNISA. In January 2019, he was allegedly brutalised by a group of Johannesburg's Community Policing Forum (CPF) members. Career In 2010, he made acting debut with the SABC1 acting competition series ''Class Act''. Then in 2011, he played the role 'David' in the television series ''Wild at Heart''. In 2012, he made cinema debut with ''Fanie Fourie's Lobola'' and played the role 'Mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louw Venter
Louw Venter (born 16 August 1975), is a South African actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his directorial and writing roles in the popular films ''The Tree'', ''Konfetti'' and ''Swartwater''. Personal life He was born on 16 August 1975 in Cape Town, South Africa. Career In 2001, he made film debut with ''Final Solution'' where he made a minor role as a 'Paramilitary member'. In 2002, he played a supportive role 'Marco' in the Italian film ''The Piano Player'' directed by Jean-Pierre Roux. In 2003, he starred in two films: ''Adrenaline'' and ''Citizen Verdict''. Apart from acting, he is also a scriptwriter who wrote the critically acclaimed award-winning film ''Konfetti'' which was directed by Zaheer Goodman-Bhyat. Apart from that, he was the writer of television serials: ''Rugby Motors'' and ''Vinkel & Koljander''. In 2015, he made directorial debut with the short film ''Leemte''. After the success of the film, he made the television serial ''Vinkel & Koljander'' in 2016. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apartheid Films
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on ''baasskap'' (boss-hood or boss-ship), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Indians and Coloureds, then black Africans. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day. Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into ''petty apartheid'', which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and ''grand apartheid'', which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race. The first apartheid law was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Films
2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and deaths. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best films of 2016, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' stated, "Hollywood is the world's best money-laundering machine. It takes in huge amounts of money from the sale of mass-market commodities and cleanses some of it with the production of cinematic masterworks. Earning billions of dollars from C.G.I. comedies for children, superhero movies, sci-fi apocalypses, and other popular genres, the big studios channel some of those funds into movies by Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, James Gray, and other worthies. Sometimes there's even an overlap between the two groups of movies, as when Ryan Coogler made '' Creed'', or when Scorsese made the modernist horror instant-classic ''Shutter Island'', or when Clint Eastwood makes just about anything." Highest-gross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Zuma
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (; born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. He is also referred to by his initials JZ and clan name Msholozi, and was a former anti-apartheid activist, member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, and president of the African National Congress (ANC) between 2007 and 2017. Zuma was born in the rural region of Nkandla, which is now part of the KwaZulu-Natal province and the centre of Zuma's support base. He joined the ANC at the age of 17 in 1959, and spent ten years in Robben Island Prison as a political prisoner. He went into exile in 1975, and was ultimately appointed head of the ANC's intelligence department. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, he quickly rose through the party's national leadership and became deputy secretary general in 1991, national chairperson in 1994, and deputy president in 1997. He was the deputy president of South Africa from 1999 to 2005 under President Thabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Monyane
Tiisetso Mona Monyane (born 16 May 1990), is a South African actress. She is best known for her roles in the popular television serials ''Muvhango'', ''Skeem Saam'' and film ''Kalushi''. Personal life She was born on 16 May 1990 in Harare, Zimbabwe to activist parents who later exiled from South Africa. Her parents were in exile during the struggle against apartheid. She grew up in Katlehong and later moved to Pretoria. She received her BA Drama degree at the University of Pretoria. She was married to fellow actor Khulu Skenjana Mkhulu Malusi Manqoba Skenjana (born 6 April 1982), popularly known as Khulu Skenjana, is a South African actor. He is best known for his roles in the popular television serials ''Machine Gun Preacher'', ''Zulu (2013 film), Zulu'' and ''Zama Zam .... They married in 2016 and spend five years together with two children. Her second baby Amani-Amaza Wamazulu Skenjana was born on 16 November 2017 and died seven days after the birth. Her eldest daughter i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Jana
Devikarani Priscilla Sewpal Jana (5 December 194310 October 2020) was a South African human rights lawyer, politician and diplomat of Indian descent. As a member of the African National Congress (ANC) during the anti-apartheid movement, she participated in both legal activism as well as in the underground movement to end apartheid. She represented many significant figures in the movement, including South African president Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Steve Biko, Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Jana was one of the very few South Africans who had access to political prisoners, including Mandela, in the maximum security Robben Island prison, and served as an emissary for coded messages between the political prisoners and the ANC leadership. Jana’s activism made her subject to violent harassment and an eventual banning order. Following the advent of full democracy in South Africa, she became a lawmaker and served as a Member of Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gcina Mhlope
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe (born 24 October 1958), known as Gcina Mhlophe, is a South African storyteller, writer, playwright, and actress. In 2016 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She tells her stories in four of South Africa's languages: English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa, and also helps to motivate children to read. Her childhood Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu-Natal, to a Xhosa mother and a Zulu father. She started her working life as a domestic worker, and did not visit a library until she was 20. Career Mhlope worked as a newsreader at the Press Trust and BBC Radio, then as a writer for ''Learn and Teach'', a magazine for newly-literate people. She began to get a sense of the demand for stories while in Chicago in 1988. She performed at a library in a mostly-Black neighbourhood, where an ever-growing audience kept inviting her back. Still, Mhlophe only began to think of storytelling as a career after meeting an Imbongi, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumani Shilubana
Fumani N Shilubana (born 22 March 1980), is a South African actor, director and producer. He is best known for his roles in the popular films '' Zama Zama'', '' My Father's War'' and '' Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu''. His the founder of FatherFigureZA, a Foundation that seeks to integrate man back into the family unit and former Chairman of Midrand Heat Basketball Club. In 2022 May 6 with Yerhu Film Commission they launched Yerhu News a Xitsonga News bulletin that plays on YouTube every Friday at 19:00. Early life He was born on 22 March 1980 in small village Shiluvana, Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa. His father Clifford Shilubana was a school head master at Mlungisi Primary School and mother Nsatimuni Mundhlovu who is a Mozambican/ South African was a nurse at Shiluvana Hospital. He has two younger sisters: Labani Mgimeti and Kumani Shilubana and an older brother Tebogo Maake. Personal life He is a father of one son, Vulani. Shilubana matriculated in 1998 at M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jafta Mamabolo
Jafta Mamabolo (born December 21, 1987), is a South African actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his roles in the popular films ''Freedom'', ''Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema'' and Otelo Burning''. Personal life He was born in 1987 in Limpopo, South Africa. He attended the National School of Arts and studied drama under renowned artists. Meanwhile, he wanted to be a fashion designer and studied a course of designing. Career In 2008, he was selected for the film ''Jerusalema''. The feature became his first film, where he played the character 'Young Kunene'. He received critical acclaim for the role. In 2011, he made lead appearance in the film ''Otelo Burning'', directed by Sara Blecher. The film became a blockbuster and later received a total of 13 nominations in the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in 2012 as well as in 2013 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards and 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards The 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on 22 April 2012 at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thabo Malema
Thabo Gabriel Malema (born 26 December 1985), is a South African actor. He is best known for the roles in the films and television serials: ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'', ''Single Guys'' and ''Strike Back''. Personal life He was born on 26 December 1985 in Mabopane, Gauteng, Johannesburg. He completed education from Maryvale college. Then he studied film at South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA). He also followed a communication and language degree at UNISA. In 2010, he travelled to Uganda and Niger and worked on the Airtel mobile company. Career He started acting career in 2006 without prior acting background. He then produced the historical film, ''Kalushi''. The film revolves around the story of a young boy, Solomon Mahlangu, who joins the South African Liberation movement after being beaten by apartheid police officers. In theater, he played in the stage plays such as ''All Balls'', ''Umuzi ka Vusi'' and ''Woza Albert''. In 2015, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
