Naka tša go rwešwa
Choreographer/ Performer Humphrey Maleka
“One summer day in 1886 two prospectors discovered gold on a Transvaal farm called Langlaagte. Gold was not new to the Transvaal. Africans had mined gold hundreds of years earlier”
A people history of South Africa Gold & Workers
1886 – 1924 Volume1 : Luli Callinicos
The piece was inspired by the word “Discoveries”; discoveries by foreign people discovering things in Africa. After discovering things foreigners name or impose their names forcefully, through trickery and brutally without considering the value and respect given to those places by the native inhabitants.
Performances
• GoetheonMain, Johannesburg 2010
• In House Project, Johannesburg 2010
• Emerging Modernities, Cape Town 2011