For over 25 years, Dr John Kani has helped guide the direction of the Apartheid Museum, an institution whose mandate overlapped uncannily with that of his own plays. His role as chairperson of the Board of Trustees unfolded parallel to his development as a playwright: an art form through which the veteran actor began to…
The Apartheid Museum in partnership with the Don Mattera Legacy Foundation will unveil its Don Mattera Obituary Installation on Mandela Day, 18 July 2026. Mattera passed away on 18 July 2022 at the age of 85. He was a towering figure in South African literature, journalism and cultural life, whose voice captured the pain and…
