Excerpts from the script of my first feature film, MILISUTHANDO developed between 2019 and 2022. Some of this writing made it into the final film, some of it didn't. The themes are mostly drawn from the experiences of my childhood in the former Transkei and later in East London, South Africa where I went to primary school and high school during South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Birth
Imbeleko // Birth Rite
Ukuthakathwa // Invasion
Ukuqatshulwa / Protection
Ukubhadla
Embodiment (Selfhood)
Homeland
Mithandathu
1993
The diary
Diary V2
Clifton Park
White Mother / Ukuthakathwa: The Invasion
Inyewe
Izigqukru: A rite of passage
Umsindo - A heavy weight
The Romans
How to see
Scapegoats
Process