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IN CONVERSATION, Milisuthando Bongela-Davis with Penny Siopis and Neo Muyanga, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, November 2024.
Epiode 66, Milisuthando Bongela: Inside Apartheid's Wish’.
Outlook, ‘Making sense of a childhood hidden from apartheid’. Interview with Milisuthando Bongela, presented by Mobeen Azhar, and produced by Thomas Harding Assinder. BBC World, November 2024.
“In the late 1980s whilst South Africa was under a state of emergency, Milisuthando Bongela was enjoying a comfortable upbringing in a nominally-independent, black state called the Transkei – unaware of the brutal apartheid system that controlled the wider country. When apartheid ended in 1994 and the Transkei was reincorporated into South Africa, filmmaker Milisuthando and her family were absorbed into the new ‘Rainbow nation’ and came to face to face with the legacy of the racist system and the different experiences of other black South Africans.”
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SOHO RADIO
Now Nancy feat. Delphine Lievens & Milisuthando Bongela (01/10/2024). Soho Radio• October 1, 2024
“We are exploring girlhood and coming of age perspectives! I am speaking to Delphine Lievens (@delphilievens) from Tape Collective about SNAPSHOT their year-long touring programme of films exploring Black girlhood, made by Black female filmmakers. I’m also speaking to Milisuthando Bongela writer, director and creator of documentary film MILISUTHANDO (@milisuthandothefilm), an intimate portrait of past, present and future South Africa, screened in UK cinemas as part of SNAPSHOT ...”.
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