Mbongeni Ngema

1976'da Güney Afrika'da, öğrenciler okullarda Afrikaanca dilinin zorunlu olmasına isyan eder. Genç aktivist Sarafina, öğretmeni Mary'nin (Whoopi Goldberg) tutuklanması ve annesinin (Miriam Makeba) boyun eğişiyle yüzleşir. Polis şiddetiyle bastırılan protestolar, gençlerin mücadelesini simgeler. Müzikalde direniş, umut dolu bir mezuniyetle son bulur.

In this backstage documentary produced for the television program Everyman, Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema discuss how they came to create their play Woza Albert!. The commentary is intercut with sketches from the play and footage of the locations and events on which the play is based.

The gangster Manysia is given a second chance after his release from prison. Reverend Jacob Musi takes him under his wings, both as a promise to Manysia’s father and as an act of benevolence. Reverend Jacob thinks that everyone deserves a fresh start and his family generously welcomes Manysia, especially the reverend’s son. But soon the past will cast its shadows over them again.

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.