Release Date

02 Jan, 2004

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Thandeka, a young Black journalist, lives in fear of Johannesburg's past. She's so troubled that she can't work, and her relationship with her 13-year-old deaf daughter Mangi goes from bad to worse. One day Me'Tau, an elderly woman, arrives at the newspaper's office. Ten years earlier, Thandeka witnessed the murder of the woman's daughter Dinéo by the secret police. Me'Tau wants Thandeka to find the murderers and Dinéo's body so that the girl can be buried in accordance with tradition. What Me'Tau couldn't know is that Thandeka has already paid for her knowledge, for having dared stand up to the apartheid system run by the whites. Meanwhile, Mangi secretly prepares a Zulu love letter: four embroidered images representing solitude, loss, hope, and love, as a final gesture towards her mother so that she won't give up the fight.

Original Title

Zulu Love Letter

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Actors

Pamela Nomvete

Mpumi Malatsi

Sophie Mgcina

Kurt Egelhof

Crew

Ramadan Suleman

Bhekizizwe Peterson

Jean Mallet

Ramadan Suleman

Bhekizizwe Peterson

Jean-Pierre Laforce

Gita Cerveira

Zim Ngqawana

Ramadan Suleman

Manuel Teran

Jacques Bidou

Marianne Dumoulin