Treading the boards for change
The Cape Flats Players was an underground theatre troupe started in 1973. Fifty years later, former members talk to Leonie Wagner about how they risked their lives to bring banned culture to the people
08 October 2023 - 00:00
Newspaper clippings lie scattered on a dining room table in Bellville South, Cape Town. In one article from the mid-1970s, a young Peter Braaf is pictured with a raised, clenched fist...
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