On Broadway and on tour, “Sarafina!” exploded with electrifying music, hard-stomping dancing, high energy and fervid political commitment. Its great strength — the young, entirely South African ...

Academy Award(R)-winning star Whoopi Goldberg (Best Supporting Actress -- GHOST) lights up the screen in her latest hit -- the exhilarating and entertaining SARAFINA! In a world where truth is ...

The continual sense of rejection, the fear of your home being invaded and the knowledge that you could die at any given moment – these are some of the feelings in the anti-apartheid film Sarafina!

TF1 Studio/ Newen Connect has picked up international sales rights to “Sarafina!,” the iconic South African musical-dance-drama that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992. “Sarafina!” was the ...

Sarafina! is rightfully lauded as a great film here at home and in many parts of the world because of its succinct depiction of the watershed events of June 16 1976. The South African film is a ...

From L-R: Miriam Makeba, Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg and Anant Singh at Cannes Film Festival in 1992. The film returns to Cannes this year. Photo: supplied “It is exciting to be returning to the ...

Part folk opera and part Hollywood musical, “Sarafina!” takes us to the darkest part of the world with a song in our heart. It is, to put it mildly, a paradox inside a conundrum wrapped in a tragedy.

Mbongeni Ngema, a distinguished South African musician and creator of the musical “Sarafina!,” died on Wednesday in a car accident. He was 68. “Ngema was killed in a head-on car accident while ...

Renowned South African playwright Mbongeni Ngema was killed in a car crash, his family said. He was best known for creating the hit "Sarafina!,"... JOHANNESBURG — Renowned South African playwright, ...

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JOHANNESBURG — Renowned South African playwright, producer and composer Mbongeni Ngema has died in a car crash at the age of 68, his family said. "Ngema was killed in a head-on car accident while ...