Zululanders catch much-anticipated, true life feature film screening in Richards Bay
The film is based on the true story of a 19-year-old Mamelodi hawker who goes into exile in 1976 to join the liberation movement
KING Cetshwayo District leadership had front row seats at the official screening of the feature documentary film Kalushi at the Boardwalk Inkwazi Shopping Centre’s Ster Kinekor cinema on Thursday afternoon.
The event was hosted by the Zululand Coast Film Office (ZCFO) and also formed part of the Africa Day celebrations.
The red carpet experience attracted numerous VIP guests and the film encapsulated the Africa Day theme.
Kalushi is a true story of a 19-year-old hawker Solomon Mahlangu from the streets of Mamelodi, a ghetto township outside Pretoria. He is brutally beaten by police and he goes into exile following the 1976 Soweto uprisings to join the liberation movement.
He returns from military training in Angola en route to a mission. His friend and comrade, Mondi, loses control and shoots two innocent people in Goch Street in Johannesburg.
Mondi is severely beaten and tortured and Kalushi is forced to stand trial under the ‘common purpose’ doctrine.
The State seeks the highest punishment from the court , death by hanging.
His sacrifice immortalises him into a hero of the struggle and an international icon of June 16, 1976.
