Bonisile John Kani is a South African actor, director, and writer. He won a Tony Award for his work on Sizwe Banzi is Dead, which transferred to Broadway in 1975.
As a playwright, his plays include Nothing but the Truth, which looks at the conflict between South African Blacks who stayed to fight apartheid and those who left. His collaborations with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona include Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
As an actor, Kani has worked on numerous plays, television shows, and films, including Miss Julie (a television film), Othello (a television film), Wallander, The Ghost and the Darkness, Endgame, Coriolanus, Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, and The Lion King.
Sizwe Banzi is Dead is a play by South African playwright Athol Fugard, first performed in 1972. Set in the South African towns of New Brighton and Port Elizabeth, the play tells the story of two men named Styles and Sizwe.
The play begins with...
