Tuesday, 29 April 2014
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Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Alexandra Township NEW street names and its HEROES (short history)
On 25 October, Vasco da Gama Street will officially become Florence Moposho Street. A prominent activist, Moposho died in exile in 1985. She was the first woman from Alex to be elected to the African National Congress (ANC) national committee.
Moposho participated in many political
activities in the township, including the 1957 bus boycott. When the ANC was
banned she went into exile and rose up the party's ranks until she was elected
to the national executive at the Morogoro Conference in Tanzania in 1969.
Originally from the Free State, Moposho's family
settled in Alexandra in 1912 and still lives in the township.
Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla was born on 4 December 1936 in Sophiatown. He was one of the five children of Christina Toli (born Buhali) and Samuel Nhlanhla. Both parents were originally from the Free State Province (formerly known as Orange Free State).
His father moved the family out of Free State after the racism in the area they were living became intolerable, eventually settling in Sophiatown. Victims of the infamous Sophiatown forced removals, the Nhlanhla family settled in Alexandra township. He attended school at the local school, Ikage Primary School, before enrolling at Kilnerton High School where he matriculated in 1956.
Nhlanhla joined the ANC and its youth wing the ANC Youth League in 1957 and was elected onto the ANCYL's Transvaal executive a year later. During this period he was also involved in the anti-pass campaign as well as the 1957 bus and potato boycotts.
Richard Baloyi is recognised as one of the martyrs of the Alex bus boycotts. A prominent businessman in the township, Baloyi lived in Second Avenue and played a leading role in the area's civic matters, contributing to its general governance and fighting against the injustices meted out to blacks.
He died in 1962 after playing a huge part in
reshaping Alex. Hofmeyr Street will be renamed after Baloyi.
In recognition of his
role in the "Save Alexandra" campaign which ended victoriously in
1997, Selbourne Street will be named after Reverend Sam Buti. Buti played a big
role in a campaign to look for alternative accommodation when Alex was
condemned to extinction by a parliamentary resolution in 1958.
He mobilised support to help feed and provide
necessities such as blankets, clothes and mattresses for displaced families in
Alex. He also helped residents to acquire identity documents, known as
"dompas", which allowed blacks to stay in the cities.
Buti is still alive and is expected to be one of
the guests at the renaming and commemoration ceremony.
One of the well-known
roads in Alex, Roosevelt Street, will be renamed after struggle stalwart Alfred
Nzo. Nzo was the longest serving secretary-general of the ANC. An Alex resident
in the 1950s and 1960s, Nzo was a community activist and participated in civic
matters and the bus boycott.
He went into exile in 1964 and was elected
secretary-general of the party at the Morogoro Conference in Tanzania. After
the first democratic elections in 1994, Nzo was appointed minister of foreign
affairs. He died in 2000.
One of the most
prominent political activists to emerge from Alex in the 1950s was Josias
Madzunya. Well-known for his trademark coat, which he wore whether it was hot
or cold, Madzunya was active in the ANC and formed part of the Alexandra and
Transvaal leadership.
He participated in the 1950s defiance campaigns
against apartheid policies such as Bantu education and laws that excluded
blacks from entering certain places. He was arrested many times and was
banished to Venda in what is now Limpopo province.
Madzunya died in the early
1970s; Rooth Street will be renamed after him.
One of the main streets
in Alex, London Road, will be renamed after Vincent Tshabalala, a student and
youth activist, and intellectual. Born in 1964, Tshabalala was one of the
martyrs of the struggle.
He left South Africa in 1983 and joined the
ranks of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC's military wing, later returning on
military and underground missions. He was sold out and was killed in a street
battle with police at the corner of London Road and 12th Avenue in 1985.
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Ryan Gosling's Directorial Debut 'Lost River'.
Cannes certainly knows how to roll out the red carpet for Hollywood stars, so it came as no surprise yesterday when Ryan Gosling's directorial debut "Lost River" landed a slot in the fest's edgy Un Certain Regard sidebar.
Originally titled "How to Catch a Monster," this dark and surreal film boasts an all-star indie cast including Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes and Ben Mendelsohn. Though plot details are scant, we know that Hendricks plays a single mother who falls into some sort of dark underworld while her son (played by Iain De Caestecker of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D") happens upon an underwater utopia.
Judging from the film's first images (below), "Lost River," which Warner Bros. will distribute later this year, has echoes of a twisted Lynchian fairyland. One image, apparently of Hendricks, immediately brings to mind Lynch's Hollywood-set nightmare "Inland Empire."
The Un Certain Regard sidebar tends toward Competition also-rans, innovative and imaginative filmmakers and Cannes first-timers, and as an actor-turned-director who has appeared on the red carpet for "Blue Valentine" and "Drive," among other films, Gosling fits comfortably in that wheelhouse.
Site: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/ryan-gosling-lost-river-cannes
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Kala/Mine Family
The Boy (PSA)
Written, Directed & Edited by
Major League and the Raptorz
Written & Directed by
Banele P. Mtebele
Shimza and the Flyers
Written & Directed by
Banele P. Mtebele
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