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• PREGS GOVENDER | 21 Icons

  Pregs Govender Pregs Govender wanted to end poverty by the time she was forty years old and reach nirvana by sixty. Growing up, she was influenced by her father, the radical playwright Ronnie Govender...

• GEORGE BIZOS | 21 Icons

  George Bizos John Vorster turned to his counsel. “George Bizos is on a short rope.” During his rule as the prime minister of apartheid South Africa, a statement of this nature was not a lightly-dusted...

• ZACKIE ACHMAT » 21 Icons

  Zackie Achmat What did Zackie Achmat do when given six months to live? He lay in bed, read and watched movies. When the months had passed and he hadn’t died he decided to get up and continue fighting....

• MIRIAM TLALI » 21 Icons

  Miriam Tlali Miriam Tlali never thought she would become a writer. “No, no, no,” she says. “But I did think I would become something. I wanted to become somebody, somehow. But the idea of becoming a ...

• GCINA MHLOPHE » 21 Icons

  Gcina Mhlophe Gcina Mhlophe has many talents. She has won awards as a performer, a director and a playwright, and built the foundations of her career doing those things. But her true gift is storytell...

• JOHN KANI » 21 Icons

  John Kani In 1965, a young black factory worker met a white man in a brown jersey. That meeting would transform South African theatre. The collective that formed around John Kani and Athol Fugard woul...