Actor, playwright and activist John Kani is a legend in South Africa. He was arrested, beaten and almost left for dead because of his work developing and starring in plays that were often searing ...

The lights come up on a bare stage. Two black South African actors, dressed in prison uniforms, mime shovelling sand into wheelbarrows in a quarry. As if perspiring profusely in the glaring noonday ...

“It was in 1965 when everything looked so very bleak in my life living in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. The Eastern Cape was a wasteland of pain and suffering. All the people we knew were either in ...

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late playwright Athol Fugard.... John Kani risked his life to tell stories of ...