Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship

Mama Mudu's Children

Posted on September 19, 2018

The play focuses on the community of Edladleni as it strives to come to terms with itself in post-freedom South Africa, as they swim against the tide of the survival imperative and a myriad of thwarted expectations. The journeys of the characters embody a tussle with the slide into deprivation, xenophobia, crime, disintegration of the family unit, alienation from self and community, negativity, and self-corroding bitterness. Yet even in the depths of despair, redemption remains possible with the embracing of Ubuntu-human values, community spirit and environmental activism.