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In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
  Learning from a Legacy of Hate
Sarafina shares the story of the struggle against Apartheid (racism) faced by a group of particularly courageous school children in South Africa.
Sarafina must make a choice to fight with violence against the government or resist with peace.
Sarafina’s choice leads to her imprisonment, torture, and a narrow escape from death.
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  Stage Review: Kuntu's 'Sarafina' celebrates community   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The varying stages of the students' story are growing awareness, protest, fatal reprisals, executions, recommitment and a triumph that is mainly spiritual but that promises political success, symbolized by luminous photos of Nelson Mandela projected against the real wall and expressed through their joy over his anticipated release.
Sarafina is a teenage girl of overwhelming vivacity and conviction, the sort of inspiring woman men have gladly gone off to die for in revolution in order to impress.
The opening night Sarafina was Mothupi, a native South African and, coincidentally, holder of a Nelson Mandela Fellowship at Pitt.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/07032/758358-325.stm   (911 words)

  
 ‘Sarafina!’ (PG-13)
Occasionally "Sarafina!" soars on the high notes of its star-struck young heroine or echoes with the cries of South African children lost to Boer genocide, but mostly this political musical strikes a jarring chord.
To the distress of Sarafina and the other pupils, the peace-loving Mary is arrested by a militaristic goon squad, never to be seen again.
Sarafina, who lives with her aunt in Soweto with her brothers and sisters, ruefully observes that the white family admires Angelina's able child care: "Mama is good with children.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sarafinapg13kempley_a0a329.htm   (507 words)

  
 SARAFINA Season Finale in Vieux Fort
SARAFINA was a project initiated by the Jubilee Trust Fund with support from the Folk Research Centre and the Cultural Development Foundation which included the production in its Emancipation Day programme.
SARAFINA, a South African play about the struggle against apartheid, was an apt selection for the observance of this year’s Emancipation theme, ‘Social Tolerance for Those Who Differ from Us’.
He felt that the culmination of SARAFINA in the south of the island was symbolic of this message of social inclusion as the people of Vieux Fort and surrounding communities have the opportunity to participate in one of the island’s premier theatrical cultural productions.
www.stlucia.gov.lc /pr2003/SARAFINA_Season_Finale_in_Vieux_Fort.htm   (260 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - 'Sarafina' - Wow! - Friday | September 27, 2002
Sarafina depicts the struggle of students in the anti-apartheid movement.
In a word, Sarafina is excellent, or you could describe it as a well-crafted moving piece, which combines great storyline, wonderful acting, directing and choreography, but that would be far more than one word.
Sarafina shows that both sexes were involved in the struggle, a necessary aspect for it to work.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020927/ent/ent1.html   (820 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Sarafina! (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After Sarafina is released from jail, she goes to visit her mother (Miriam Makeba), and they engage in the movie's key dialogue scene.
It sounds as if Sarafina is apologizing for being radical, and honoring her mother for the patience and courage it takes to be a domestic.
Sarafina was friendly with the dead cop, and there is a chilling moment where she joins the crowd that is burning him, and their eyes meet.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19920925/REVIEWS/209250303/1023   (890 words)

  
 sarafina
The other defendants are Sarafina II producer Mbongeni Ngema, the Committed Artists Theatre Company, former health support services chief director Albert Badenhorst and former health director-general Olive Shisana who asked the SIU to recover an outstanding amount of R6m for the Health Department.
Mr Badenhorst is a defendant "on the basis that without proper authorisation he signed the contract with Mr Ngema, and that on various grounds of negligence he is liable for the damages suffered" by the department.
Dr Shisana "is sued on the basis that she, in her capacity at the time as accounting officer, failed to recover any losses suffered".
www.dispatch.co.za /1998/11/17/easterncape/SARAFINA.HTM   (0 words)

  
 Stage Review: Kuntu's 'Sarafina' celebrates community   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Sarafina!" rather jumps from one number to another, each expressing an emotional response to connective events that you have to fill in for yourself.
Sarafina is a teenage girl of overwhelming vivacity and conviction, the sort of inspiring woman men have gladly gone off to die for in revolution in order to impress.
The opening night Sarafina was Mothupi, a native South African and, coincidentally, holder of a Nelson Mandela Fellowship at Pitt.
www.pittsburghpostgazette.com /pg/07032/758358-325.stm   (911 words)

  
 Sarafina's
Sarafina’s, located in Brookfield, will feature various homemade pastas and sauces, as well as a host of salads and sandwiches for both lunch and dinner crowds.
However, throughout Sarafina’s Pastaria, on sale will be unique items imported from Italy — like olive oils or pottery, and other items — like the homemade pastas and sauces from the Balistreri kitchen.
Sarafina’s will be the latest chapter in the restaurant history of Sara and Casper Balistreri.
www.gmtoday.com /content/LSW/2002/July/54.asp   (824 words)

  
 Sarafina - Family Movie Review
Set in the midst of the apartheid struggle, Sarafina is influenced by the powerful teachings of Mary (Whoopi Goldberg), who feels she needs to teach her students historical truths not found in the government approved texts.
As Sarafina observes her friends, many of them openly rebelling against the government regime, and the opinions of Mary, she tries to come to conclusions about what is right, and what is the best way to try and obtain freedom.
Sarafina is a girl who, like many of us, cannot come to her own conclusion as to what is right and wrong.
www.parentpreviews.com /movie-reviews/sarafina.shtml   (394 words)

  
 Newegg.com - Buena Vista Home Entertainment Sarafina! PG-13 (MPAA) Musical & Performing Arts DVD Widescreen - Retail
Sarafina battles her feelings of abandonment and disappointment with passionate hero-worship of both imprisoned political activist Nelson Mandela and her rebellious history teacher, Mary Masombuka.
Even as Mary reassures Sarafina that she dreams of a free and peaceful South Africa, violence erupts throughout the township.
A riot ensues when policemen fire at some of the children, and Sarafina faces years of imprisonment and torture for her role in the protest.
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 Sarafina! - Rotten Tomatoes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sarafina battles her feelings of abandonment and disappointment with passionate hero-worship of both imprisoned political activist Nelson Mandela and her rebellious history teacher, Mary Masombuka.
Even as Mary reassures Sarafina that she dreams of a free and peaceful South Africa, violence erupts throughout the township.
A riot ensues when policemen fire at some of the children, and Sarafina faces years of imprisonment and torture for her role in the protest.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/sarafina/about.php   (526 words)

  
 Sarafina - Home Décor Solutions: Policy
Sarafina will do our best to get the estimates as close as possible, but in the event that more fabric is needed, the additional charge will be added to the balance due.
If fabric must be ordered and Sarafina finds out that it is back ordered from the supplier, we will continue to make all attempts to finish in the timeframe expected.
If we are precluded from doing this because of the backorder, the customer will be asked to make a different fabric choice or give written consent to Sarafina for a longer timeframe.
www.sarafinafabric.com /policy.html   (305 words)

  
 Sarafina - Lesson Plans from Movies and Film - South Africa, aparthied, Soweto
This is the story of one young girl caught up in the struggle for freedom in South Africa just before the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of
"Sarafina" shows the battle that the children of Soweto waged against the brutal
"Sarafina" will show children some of the horror of the oppression with which the apartheid government of South Africa tried to suppress dissent.
www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/sarafina.html   (643 words)

  
 Sarafinas Site : All about Sarafina, Sarabi and Mufasa!
Sarafinas Site : All about Sarafina, Sarabi and Mufasa!
This website is dedicated to Sarafina, but it also has a page about Sarabi.
Please read my fanfiction, and tell me what you think.
www.freewebs.com /sarafina_site   (0 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sarafina: DVD: Leleti Khumalo,Whoopi Goldberg,Miriam Makeba,John Kani,Dumisani Dlamini,Mbongeni Ngema,Sipho ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Sarafina" is a powerful and moving film about the struggle of South African school kids for survival and freedom against apartheid.
Sarafina started as a musical, and that talent is prevalent in the film version as well.
`Sarafina!' is the soundtrack to the brilliant musical movie starring Whoopi Goldberg as a radical school teacher in apartheid South Africa, and a bright sunny student named...
www.amazon.com /Sarafina-Leleti-Khumalo/dp/B00006472P   (1063 words)

  
 Investigation concerning the Sarafina II Donor
He is aware of the controversy that has surrounded Sarafina II and is keen that this should not distract his life and the life of his family.
It is a fact that the question of the identify of Sarafina II donor has been the subject of unbridled, rapacious and venomous speculation in the media and elsewhere.
Flowing from Recommendation 1 above, it is recommended to the Minister of Health that whilst the terms imposed by the donor in relation to the Sarafina II donation are legal and acceptable in terms of the Treasury Instructions, such terms should be revisited to accord with the procedure set out in recommendation 1 above.
www.info.gov.za /otherdocs/1996/sarafina.htm   (3787 words)

  
 eBay - Product Info - eBay — Sarafina (UPC: 717951595034), VHS and PG-13 items on eBay.com.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sarafina battles her feelings of abandonment and disappointment with passionate hero-worship of both imprisoned political activist Nelson Mandela and her rebellious history teacher, Mary Masombuka.
Even as Mary reassures Sarafina that she dreams of a free and peaceful South Africa, violence erupts throughout the township.
A riot ensues when policemen fire at some of the children, and Sarafina faces years of imprisonment and torture for her role in the protest.
product.ebay.com /Sarafina_UPC_717951595034_W0QQfvcsZ1178QQsoprZ3196159   (696 words)

  
 Magic or Madness Trilogy - Reason's Past
Reason learned to hold onto her name, to keep it close, even when she had to answer to other names, to pretend to be a Susan, an Amy, or a Jessica.
By the time Reason was five she could recognize mathematical patterns in the number of petals in a flower, or ripples in a pond, she could figure out if a number was divisible by nine no matter how long it was (nine is Reason's favorite number).
Sarafina had to sign a document saying that she would take the pills the doctors gave her and she would give Esmeralda access to her granddaughter.
www.justinelarbalestier.com /Magic/past.htm   (725 words)

  
 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Sarafina! | Deseret Morning News Web edition   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Sarafina!" is based on a successful stage musical about children in a poor South African township, but it definitely loses something in the transition to film.
Where the play was apparently able to blend jubilant musical numbers with scenes of stylized, stagebound violence, the movie portrays the horrors of apartheid all too realistically, which makes for an uneasy transition to the songs and dances.
Instead of underscoring the pride and self-esteem these children seek, despite the horrors of their day-to-day lives, it feels more like zapping the remote control from CNN to MTV.
deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1591,00.html   (183 words)

  
 Sarafina   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sarafina, one of the founding members of The Wings of Isis, has been involved in Middle Eastern Dance since 1996.
She has taught classes at her local YMCA and local fitness and recreation centers to bring awareness to the community of the Middle Eastern dance form.
Sarafina has studied with many of the top Middle Eastern dancers including Amaya, Aziza, Karen Barbee, Shareen El Safy, Fahtiem, Hadia, Raqia Hassan, Isis, Jasmin Jahal, Morocco, Margo Abdo O'Dell, Amir Thaleb, Vashti and Virginia.
www.isisandthestardancers.com /PerfCoGallery/sarafina.htm   (268 words)

  
 this is by us >> Sarafina   (Site not responding. Last check: )
by Sarafina, posted on Jun. 19 at 01:38pm
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 Sarafina | Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg | Sounds of freedom!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In a world where truth is forbidden, an inspiring teacher (Whoopi Goldberg) dares to instill in her students lessons not found in schoolbooks.
`Sarafina!' is the soundtrack to the brilliant musical movie starring Whoopi Goldberg as a radical school teacher in apartheid South Africa, and a bright sunny student named Sarafina.
"Sarafina" is a powerful and moving film about the struggle of South African school kids for survival and freedom against apartheid.
www.this-is-great.com /info/xbffffjirsxp   (601 words)

  
 ‘Sarafina!’ (PG-13)
From the exclamation point in the title to the rallying chant-along finale, "Sarafina!" doesn't exactly revel in restraint.
Based on the real children's resistance movement in Soweto in the mid-1970s, "Sarafina!" unleashes images of now-archetypal facets of South African political life: the funerals, the stone-throwing youths and so forth.
With its song-and-dance call to defeat injustice (the play was written before the repeal of apartheid laws), it's basically "Agitprop: The Musical!" Imagine an African Doris Day waking up in a police state, singing about it (to mbaqanga music), then learning that even the innocent get their heads bashed in.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sarafinapg13howe_a0af08.htm   (466 words)

  
 Sarafina! Young South African voices spread music of liberation Ebony - Find Articles
They are the family (read cast) of Sarafina!, the long-running Broadway hit that indelibly outlines the miseries of apartheid in South Africa.
And when the young players speak of fallen heroes and homeland atrocities, the truth of their words is enough to sear even the cynical-at-heart.
"The kids of Sarafina!," as cast members are affectionately called by Ngema, speak almost in exalted terms of their teacher and mentor.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n4_v45/ai_8325353   (766 words)

  
 Pittsburgh - Sarafina! - On Stage - Theater Reviews & Features - Pittsburgh City Paper
The title character is a headstrong, politically savvy young woman who, even after spending her whole life with that murderous regime bearing down on her, has never lost the simple and profound belief that she has the right, if not the duty, to live.
In fact, Sarafina believes that just living as who and what she is is the most revolutionary act of all.
I saw the show on opening night and, I have to report, there were technical mishaps aplenty and a curious start-and-stop quality to the flow of the evening.
www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:22121   (571 words)

  
 Sarafina! | Retro Junk
Sarafina's mother, who works as a servant in a white household and never sees her children, urges Sarafina to toe the line.
But she can no longer turn a blind eye when the government imprisons her teacher and slaughters her would-be boyfriend during an arson protest.
Incited to rebellion, the students kill a crooked fl constable, leaving Sarafina to wrestle with their decision to use violence against the government's strictures.
www.retrojunk.com /details_movies/1575-sarafina   (234 words)

  
 Movie Info for Sarafina! on MSN Movies
At first just a petulant bundle of energy, more interested in boys than civil rights, Sarafina (Leleti Khumalo) learns of the Afrikaaner oppression through the underground lectures of her teacher, Mary Masembuko (Goldberg).
Sarafina's mother, who works as a servant in a white household and never sees her children, urges Sarafina to toe the line.
But she can no longer turn a blind eye when the government imprisons her teacher and slaughters her would-be boyfriend during an arson protest.
movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=20611   (201 words)

  
 Sarafina! (1992)
Any fans of "The Lion King" (film -or- musical) and "The Power of One" will enjoy this film beyond belief.
Based on the broadway musical "Sarafina!", this film (distributed by Buena Vista [Walt Disney Studios]) definetely meets my expectations.
I personally think that the cast was amazing, but for those select few who think Whoopi Goldberg did a so-called "mediocre" acting job, this film is about a story, a very strong story.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0105316   (0 words)

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