Word: zachariah
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...fund, hired a brilliant battery of lawyers and kept most of the defendants going on a dole of $30.80 a month. As the proceedings dragged on, the prosecution gradually dropped charges against most of the defendants, including Chief Albert Luthuli, president of the now outlawed African National Congress, and Zachariah Matthews, onetime Henry W. Luce Professor of World Christianity at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Left standing trial were only 28 small-fry defendants, and the only real evidence against them was that they had helped draw up a "freedom charter" calling for universal suffrage, nationalization of mineral...
Lured off the land with false promises of big pay, Zachariah Mgabi (the character is named after the man who portrays him) spends several months of hard, unprofitable labor in the mines and then wangles a better job in Johannesburg: houseboy to a baas. But the mistress of the house soon loses patience with a "damn fool Kaffir" who can't tell mushroom soup from slops. She fires him, and Zachariah wanders thereafter, like a bug in a garbage pail, through the vast black slums of Johannesburg. He gets two jobs in succession and is fired from each...
...director has trouble is in the acted action. Almost all his players are amateurs, and he has obviously tried to make them relax and act natural; but except in one exciting bull session among Negro intellectuals, most of them seem stilted; Rogosin thinks that they felt awkward speaking English. Zachariah Mgabi, a Zulu office worker whom Rogosin spotted one day in a railroad station, is an exception. At times he plays with a wild, shy, serious charm that is irresistible. At times his natural, gentle face suggests a black St. Peter...
...bureaus, Rogosin got his permit. He dashed off his script in less than a week, then shot for three months with scarcely a day off. The police were always watching, and Rogosin could never relax security. He carefully concealed the true nature of the story from his actors; even Zachariah was not quite sure what it was all about...
...steeped in Jewish dogma and tradition during his childhood in Vilna, Lithuania, was sent to Palestine at 17. His first direct contact with the traditions of his forefathers came while he was working in a kibbutz (collective settlement). There he found a fellow laborer, a Yemenite Jew named Zachariah. who could describe such legendary objects as the ancient Tabernacle so vividly that young Yehoshua was able to draw them. After finishing his art education in Paris, Kovarsky went back to Israel, isolated himself to paint in the ancient city of Safad, cradle of Jewish mysticism and cabalism...