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The celebrated playwright was a passenger in the vehicle involved in the crash. He was best known for creating the hit Sarafina! which first premiered on Broadway in 1988. Singer Harry Belafonte, one ...

”Sarafina!” is soon to be released by Shanachie Records, the independent New Jersey-based label. Shanachie, which has put out such important black South African recordings in the United States as ”The ...

At the Lincoln Center, the South African cast members of the anti-Apartheid Broadway hit musical Sarafina perform and later give interviews about their politically and socially troubled country in ...

Mbongeni Ngema, the South African playwright and composer who created Broadway’s Sarafina!, was killed in a head-on car crash while returning from a funeral. The 1988 play about a young student during ...

When ”Sarafina!”, the passionate South African musical, was first performed in Johannesburg in 1987, Nelson Mandela, the freedom leader it celebrates, was still imprisoned by the government of his ...

Mbongeni Ngema, writer of the acclaimed musical Sarafina about student riots in apartheid Soweto, is no more. Ngema was 68. As per Deadline, Mbongeni Ngema died in a car accident. The news of his ...