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Sarafina!

She was their teacher. They were her hope.

18 Sep 1992
  • South Africa
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
  • France
117 mins
6.136
44 votes
  • Music
  • Drama
  • Family
articleOverview personCast
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
  • Leleti Khumalo

    as Sarafina
  • Whoopi Goldberg

    as Mary Masembuko
  • John Kani

    as School Principal
  • Miriam Makeba

    as Angelina
  • Mary Twala

    as Sarafina's Grandmother
  • Dumisani Dlamini

    as Crocodile
  • Mbongeni Ngema

    as Sabela
  • Tertius Meintjes

    as Lieutenant Bloem
  • Robert Whitehead

    as Interrogator
  • Greg Latter

    as Policeman
  • Nicky Rebelo

    as Soldier
  • James Whyle

    as Soldier

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