Alex Burger

20 April, 2025

April 20, 2025

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Tarana Burke, Brené Brown: You Are Your Best Thing

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“A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.”

–Pythagoras

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8 April, 2025

April 8, 2025

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“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

–Lao Tzu

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A Review – “The Cry of Winnie Mandela”

April 6, 2025April 6, 2025

Bonginkosi Mashilo reviews “The Cry of Winnie Mandela”

Play Reading in Nairobi: A Cry of Winnie Mandela

April 6, 2025

Following its acclaimed run in South Africa, “The Cry of Winnie Mandela” will be presented as a play reading at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi.

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We are Winnie, Winnie is us.

March 28, 2025March 28, 2025

Adapted from the novel of the same name written by Njabulo S. Ndebele, the play felt like an apparition straight from the book cracked open at the spine.

Review by Pheladi Sethusa

The set of The Cry of Winnie Mandela at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. A quote from Winnie Nomzamo Mandela adorns the wall. Photo: Pheladi Sethusa

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Ode to the Women who Wait

March 28, 2025

SHE WAS SO many different things to so many people: a wife, a mother, a hero, a witch, an icon, an enemy, but what was she to herself?

Review by Robyn Sassen

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South Africa: a play explores the legacy of Winnie Mandela.

March 24, 2025April 6, 2025

Exploring the legacy of Winnie Mandela

24 March, 2025

March 24, 2025

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“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

–Carl Jung

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Theatre Review: The Cry Of Winnie Mandela – Waiting Winningly, Or In Harmony With History

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025

With the performance under review happening on the night of some of the heaviest rainfall Johannesburg had experienced in years, a full theatre confirmed that audiences will go to the theatre – in the middle of town, in a storm – if they feel that a show is worth attending.

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EPIC: This stage offering is adapted by Alex Burger from the popular novel of author and essayist Njabulo S. Ngcobo.

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025

By Jabu Kumalo

The excruciating pain of women who wait for their husbands forever to come back home can be taken for granted until you watch the stage play, The Cry of Winnie Mandela. The play centres around the tumultuous life of iconic struggle hero, Winnie Mandela.

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