Plays, films, tv
Mokae
others |
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World
Mokae
others |
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1932 |
Athol Fugard
born |
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1933 |
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1934 |
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Murder in the
Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets |
1935 |
Zakes Mokae
born in Johannesburg,
South Africa |
The Girl
who Killed to Save by Herbert Dhlomo |
1936 |
F.W. de
Klerk born |
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1937 |
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Out Town by
Thornton Wilder |
1938 |
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A Long
Day's Journey into the Night
by Eugene O'Neill |
1939 |
Jan Smuts becomes prime minister
of South Africa (to
1948) |
The Rude
Criminal by Gaur Radebe |
1940 |
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1941 |
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1942 |
Nelson
Mandela joins ANC |
The Pass
by Herbert Dhlomo |
1943 |
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1944 |
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1945 |
Second
World War in Europe over |
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1946 |
Second
World War in Asia over
Stephen
Biko born |
A
Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams |
1947 |
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Alan Paton´s
Cry the Beloved Country published |
1948 |
Mahatma
Gandhi dies India
D.F. Malan becomes prime
minister of South Africa (to 1954)
Apartheid laws |
Death of a
Salesman by Arthur Miller
Nineteen
Eighty-Four by George Orwell, novel |
1949 |
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1950 |
South
Africans categorised as white, black or coloured
Jan Smuts dies |
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1951 |
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The
Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
Invisible
Man by Ralph Ellison, novel
Black Skin White Masks by Franz Fanon |
1952 |
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Waiting
for Godot by Samuel Beckett |
1953 |
Eugene
O'Neill dies |
Deathwatch
by Jean Genet |
1954 |
G.
Strijdom becomes prime minister
of
South Africa (to
1958) |
Fugard and Mokae found Circle
Players
in Cape Town |
1955 |
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Long Day's
Journey into the Night
by Eugene O'Neill
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
A Hatful of Rain by Michael Gazzo |
1956 |
Herbert
Dhlomo dies |
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1957 |
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No-Good
Friday, play
Kimberley
Train by Lewis Sowden |
1958 |
Hendrik Verwoerd becomes prime minister
of South
Africa (to 1966) |
Nongogo, play
Rhinoceros
by Eugene Ionesco
Roots by Arnold Wesker
Try for
White by Basil Warner
King Kong by Matschikiza, Bloom |
1959 |
Bantu act
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The
Caretaker by Harold Pinter |
1960 |
Sharpeville
Massacre
John F. Kennedy elected
President USA |
The Dumb Waiter, play
The Blood
Knot, play |
1961 |
Mokae moves to London
South
Africa becomes a republic
Julius
Nyrere leads Tanganyika to independence
Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space |
A World of Strangers,
film |
1962 |
Fugard
encourages British playwrights
to boycott segregated
audiences Nelson
Mandela imprisoned on Robben Island
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A Dance in
the Forest by Wole Soyinka
The Blood
Knot, play |
1963 |
John F.
Kennedy assassinated USA |
Danger Man,
tv |
1964 |
Frederik
John Harris plants a bomb
in Johannesburg station |
Seek Her
Out, tv
Hello and
Goodbye
Loot by Joe Orton
Kanna Hy Ko
Hystoe by Adam Small |
1965 |
First part of novel sequence Sea
of Fertility
Yukio Mishima
Ian Smith
declares white-ruled Rhodesia
independent |
Darling, film
The Trials of Brother Jero, play
Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead
by Tom Stoppard |
1966 |
Stephen
Biko attends university
Hendrik Verwoerd murdered |
The Comedians, film |
1967 |
The Blood
Knot, tv film
B.J. Vorster becomes prime minister
of South Africa (to 1978)
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1968 |
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Where Have
They Gone,
All the Little Children?, tv |
1969 |
Woodstock
festival
Neil Armstrong first man on moon
Mokae moves to the USA |
Fragment of Fear, film
Boesman & Lena, play |
1970 |
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Boesman & Lena, play
The Blood
Knot, play
The Emperor Jones, play |
1971 |
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1972 |
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The Island
Equus by
Peter Shaffer |
1973 |
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1974 |
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East by
Steven Berkoff
Starsky and Hutch,
tv |
1975 |
Breyten
Breytenbach imprisoned
Pol Pot
regime and the killing Fields in Cambodia |
The River Niger,
film |
1976 |
Soweto
riots
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Mid-Century Blues,
play |
1977 |
Stephen Biko dies |
A Lesson
from Aloes, play
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story,
tv film |
1978 |
P.W. Botha becomes prime
minister
of South Africa (to 1989) |
A Dry White
Season by Andre Brink, novel
Roots the Next Generations, tv film |
1979 |
Margaret
Thatcher elected prime minister,
Great Britain |
The Island, film |
1980 |
Founds The
Black Actors Theatre with
Danny Glover in San Francisco
Robert
Mugabe wins first free elections
in Rhodesia, renamed
Zimbabwe |
Roar, tv film |
1981 |
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Master
Harold...and the Boys, play
Knight Rider, tv
Top Girls
by Caryl Churchill |
1982 |
Wins Tony award for Master
Harold
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A Caribbean Mystery, tv film |
1983 |
novelist J.M.
Coetzee wins Booker Prize
Tennessee
Williams dies |
The Road
to Mecca |
1984 |
P.W. Botha
becomes president (to 1989) |
Fences by
August Wilson
Born in the
RSA by Barney Simon
Blood Knot, play |
1985 |
Live Aid
concert |
Master
Harold...and the Boys, tv film
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1986 |
Wole Soyinka awarded Nobel Prize |
A Place with the Pigs
A Different World,
tv |
1987 |
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The Serpent and the
Rainbow, film
Cry Freedom, film
The Satanic
Verses by Salman Rushdie, novel |
1988 |
Novelist
Alan Paton dies |
The Hogan Family,
tv
Dad, film
A Dry White Season, film
Gross Anatomy, film |
1989 |
F.W. de Klerk becomes president
of South Africa (to
1994) |
Parker Kane, tv film
Dream On, tv |
1990 |
Nelson Mandela released from prison
Namibia
gains independence
Irak invades Kuwait |
A Rage in Harlem, film
Body Parts, film
The Doctor, film |
1991 |
novelist Nadime
Gordimer awarded
Nobel Prize for literature |
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1992 |
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In Darkest
Hollywood, documentary
Percy and Thunder, tv film
The X-files, tv
Dust Devil, film
The Song of Jacob Zulu, play |
1993 |
Nelson
Mandela and F.W. de Klerk
awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
Rise and Walk: the Dennis
Byrd Story, tv film
Law and Order, tv
Slaughter of the Innocents, film |
1994 |
Eugene
Ionesco dies
Nelson Mandela elected president
of South Africa (to 1999) |
Blasted by Sarah Kane
Vampire in Brooklyn, film
Waterworld, film
Outbeak, film
Fences, play |
1995 |
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1996 |
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1997 |
Princess
Diana dies |
Oz,
tv
Krippendorf's Tribe, film |
1998 |
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1999 |
Thabo
Mbeki elected president
of South Africa |
The West Wing, tv |
2000 |
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2001 |
911 attack on the
USA |
National Pastimes,
play
Monk, tv |
2002 |
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The Road to Mecca,
play |
2003 |
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2004 |
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2005 |
Arthur Miller dies |
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2006 |
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2007 |
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2008 |
Harold
Pinter dies |
Zakes Mokae passes away |
2009 |
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