Have you seen Zandile?

Gcina Mhlophe

• Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9781869140021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781869144364
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

Have You Seen Zandile? is a wonderful South African resource, still as fresh and absorbing as when it was first written. Perfectly scripted, and with Gcina Mhlophe's sure instinct for stagecraft, it recounts the very personal story of Zandile, who is snatched away from her grandmother's loving care and taken to live with her matriarchal family in rural Transkei. Moving, funny and convincing, full of Zandile's shrewd, youthful insights, the play offers an illuminating window onto the 1960s world that it depicts, with its issues of white dominance, rural hardship and black female repression.Have You Seen Zandile? is already an established favourite in performance circles, and is fast becoming a South African classic.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Imprint Page
• Contents
• Scene One: Zandile and Bongi
• Scene Two: Grandmother (Gogo) at Home
• Scene Three: Zandile’s Life with Gogo
• Scene Four (a): Zandile Teaches Flowers
• Scene Four (b): Zandile with Gogo in the Garden
• Scene Five: The White Car Comes for Zandile
• Scene Six: Gogo Discovers Zandile is Gone
• Scene Seven: Gogo Searches for Zandile and Zandile’s Letter to Gogo
• Scene Eight: Zandile with Mother in the Field
• Scene Nine: Zandi and Lindi Swim in the River
• Scene Ten: Zandile Gets to Know her Mother
• Scene Eleven: Lindiwe Goes to Johannesburg
• Scene Twelve: Praise Poetry and Gogo’s Entrance
• Scene Thirteen: Zandile and Lindiwe Prepare for the Farewell Party
• Scene Fourteen: Zandile Finds Gogo’s Suitcase
• Songs
• Back Cover