Askari set to ruffle feathers on stage at Market Theatre

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It takes a daring young artist like Sello Maseko to write a theatre show about the askaris, black hitmen recruited by apartheid police.

The activities of the askaris is a topic that has not been given proper discussions in post-apartheid SA, perhaps through the notion some things from the past are better left alone for the sake of peace. Perhaps because many of these hitmen hired to target freedom fighters were themselves active in the Struggle. , needless to say, is about the crimes these counterinsurgency operatives committed during apartheid.

On Thursday it begins its short Joburg season at the Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg, which will end on Sunday. The State Theatre season in Pretoria was a success as the cast performed in front of a sold-out audiences.as a story of freedom fighters and community activists who turned to be deadly assassins, double agents and informers.

“People love the show because it is honest, historical, brutal, relevant, talks to power and educational. For a younger audience, it is educational and they get a bit of a glimpse of how we got here. They are going to understand that the freedom they are enjoying now, how it came about.

 

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