Naka tša go rwešwa

Originally created in Partnership with the Goethe Institute – South Africa

Created and performed by Humphrey Maleka

“One summer day in 1886 two prospectors discovered gold on a Transvaal farm called Langlaagte. Gold was not new to the Transvaal. Africans had mined gold hundreds of years earlier”

A people history of South Africa Gold & Workers,      1886 – 1924 Volume1 : Luli Callinicos

This work was inspired by the word “Discoveries”; discoveries by foreign people discovering things in Africa.  After making a discovery, foreigners named or imposed their names, upon people, places and things forcefully, through trickery and brutally, without considering the value and respect given to them by the native inhabitants.

Performances

GoetheonMain - Johannesburg, 2010

Emerging Modernities - Cape Town 2010