John Kani Theatre. Sizwe Banzi is Dead (1972) (co-authored with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona) The Island (1973) (co-authored with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona) Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (co-authored with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona) My Children My Africa! (actor) Nothing But the Truth (2002) (sole playwright).
Nothing But the Truth. John Kani. Witwatersrand University Press, 2002 - Drama - 60 pages. 7 Reviews. Service of the Engine is a common local Chichewa-English expression in the Malawian fishing village where the author did her fieldwork. It refers to the practice of taking various pills--known locally as Ciba--in order to prevent and cure.
This study guide focuses on John Kani’s play, Nothing But the Truth, one of the set works in Paper 2: Literature. How to use this study guide In the introduction to the guide (pages 1 to 12), you find out about the author and the current events that influenced him. There is also an overview of how the story is told.
John has received a Merit Award from NAFCOC for his contribution to the advancement of culture in South Africa. Directed several commercials and won the M-Net Plum Award and was a finalist in the Lourie (Loerie?) Awards. The main theatre of the Market Theatre complex in Newtown, Johannesburg, has been renamed The John Kani Theatre in his honour.
A skilled playwright and screenwriter, he co-authored Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island. He also penned the play Nothing But the Truth which would be adapted to the screen in 2008. Family Life. He and his wife Mandi have one son, Atandwa Kani, who gained fame on the CW series Life is Wild. Atandwa also joined John in the cast of Black Panther.
Nothing but the Truth is a 2008 film. The movie is adapted from a widely popular one-man show performed by actor and director John Kani. Synopsis. In New Brighton, South Africa, 63-year-old librarian Sipho Makhaya is getting ready to receive the body of his brother Themba, recently deceased while in exile in London and a hero of the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
John Kani Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bonsile John Kani (born 1943) is a South African actor, director and playwright. He was born in New Brighton, South Africa. Kani joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished.