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Despite the teen trappings, a sense of mission infuses Sarafina!, a portrait of repression and rebellion at a Soweto high school. During "notes," a 15- minute discussion of finer points in the performance, the kids jump up to argue with the assistant director, Mali Hlatshwayo, in rapid-fire Zulu. He thumps his chest. "Emotion," explains one of the cast. At the stage door, starstruck American youngsters gather for autographs, but the kids of Sarafina! don't preen like the show horses of your average chorus line. The girls are mostly hefty. The boys tend toward skinny. Plain faces, remarkably ordinary...
...house painter. He dropped out of school at 17: the family lacked the money to pay school fees for six children. Drifting from township to township, he found no steady work. Two friends invited him to act in a play about a youth who fled after the Soweto uprising of 1976 to join a guerrilla army. Furtively, the three would perform in community halls in black townships, ready to escape through a back door should police arrive...
...accused of setting fire to theshanties was not influenced by racism, Danielssaid. Rather, Daniels said Bracey has served as aChristian missionary and volunteered his medicalservices in Soweto, South Africa to help SouthAfrican Blacks in the summe, of 1983. He has alsoworked in Kenya, Tanzania, Australia, New Zealandand Vietnam over the years...
Bracey then mentioned his three-month servicein Soweto and said, "Blacks have the best medicaltreatment in Africa," adding that the media hasdistorted the true situation in that apartheidstate, Charney said...
...children achieve a dignity and pride in their heritage and grow up to rightfully demand the privdleges of South African whites. The government's measures against children show a systematic campaign to prevent Black South Africans from ever challenging its rule. Only an evil, cowardly regime preys on children. Soweto proved this. But the U.S. administration still feels no obligation to intervene...