Sarafina!
Sarafina!
Overview
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
Trailer
Cast
Leleti Khumalo
Whoopi Goldberg
John Kani
Miriam Makeba
Mary Twala
Dumisani Dlamini
Mbongeni Ngema
Tertius Meintjes
Robert Whitehead
Greg Latter
Nicky Rebelo
James Whyle
Michelle Bestbier
Patrick Ndlovu
Somizi Mhlongo
Crew
Darrell James Roodt
Helena Spring
Anant Singh
David Barkham
Emilia Roux
Sanjeev Singh
Megan Gill
David Heitner
David M. Thompson
Mark Vicente
Sarah Thomas
Mbongeni Ngema
Stanley Myers
Mbongeni Ngema
Kirk D'Amico
Graham Hickson
Rick Cresswell
Debra-Lee Davidson
Tania Jenkins
Peter Hollywood
Nicky De Beer
