The cinematic journey of three singing ex-political prisoners traveled full circle when Muntu Nxumalo (musical director) presented our 90 minute rough cut of the film in Kwa Mashu, the largest township in Kwa Zulu Natal – home township of the singers. Muntu arranged with Edmund Mhlongo to show the film to youth involved in performing arts and media at Ekhaya Multi-Arts Center.

Muntu reports that South African high school students know very little about apartheid and the struggle for liberation and that they were in fact astonished to see the ex-prisoners engaging with American high school students and news reporters in Chicago. Muntu says the emotional impact of this story is very powerful because parents such as himself have found it difficult to talk about their prison years. Local audiences told Muntu they want more scenes in the film about apartheid, Robben Island prison and the musical response of today’s South African teens.

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