Win tickets for family outing to Sarafina!

The biggest African musical yet, Sarafina! is coming to Joburg Theatre.

Committed Artists Theatricals in association with the Joburg Theatre will be staging the Broadway renowned award-winning production from June 14 to 24 on the Mandela Stage at Joburg Theatre.

Directed by Dr Mbongeni Ngema, the show will be staged during Youth Month to inspire young people and celebrate the centenary of great South African humanitarian Nelson Mandela.

One of South Africa’s most iconic symbols of the struggle for social and political freedom and justice, Sarafina! was con- ceived and directed by Ngema, who wrote and arranged the music and lyrics with additional songs by the late Dr Hugh Masekela.

Sarafina! was adapted to become a school set work and it’s studied in schools across the African continent.

The play, which depicts students involved in the 1976 Soweto Uprising against apartheid, was created in June 1986 and premiered at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in June 1987, with Leleti Khumalo in the title role as the schoolgirl activist.

The powerhouse musical took Broadway by storm in January 1988 during Black History Month culminating in a twoyear run on Broadway in Manhattan, New York, and a fiveyear tour of the US.

Concurrently, a second cast of Sarafina! premiered in 1988 and toured the world for four years.