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Act 2 - Scene 3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

Junction Avenue Theatre Company
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Summary

(Enter the four men dressed in immaculate evening dress, white jackets, bowties, walking-sticks, and hats pulled low over the eyes. As they sing, they execute dance steps reminiscent of the Manhattan Brothers.)

BANTU BAHLALA

Bantu bahlala ngenhliziy’ ezibuhlungu

Sophia ngeyami (2)

Bantwana baydlala

Bazali bayakhala

Bakhalel’ ilizwe labo

Sophia ngeyam’ (2)

Sithi yebo yebo yebo yebo

Sophia ngeyami (2)

Nanka amabhunu

Afikile ngebulldoza

Adiliz’ imizi yethu

Sophia ngeyam’ (2)

(People stay with sad hearts

Sophiatown is mine (2)

Children are playing

Parents are weeping

Weeping for their land

Sophiatown is mine (2)

We say yes, yes, yes, yes

Sophiatown is mine

Here come the Boers

Coming with the bulldozer

They destroy our homes

Sophiatown is mine) (2)

(Blackout.)

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Sophiatown
A PLAY CREATED BY JUNCTION AVENUE THEATRE COMPANY
 , pp. 59 - 60
Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 1993

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