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A Q&A with Zoey Black

Zoey Black is a transgender woman of colour living in Cape Town. She is trans rights activist, actress, freelance writer and digital content creator. She is employed with Gender Dynamix, a non-profit organisation with a focus on championing human rights for trans and gender diverse persons and communities in Southern Africa. Zoey is the organisation’s Legal and Education Advocacy Officer and leads the legal, policy and educational reform initiatives and projects. In her personal capacity, Zoey publicly advocates for trans rights and visibility, and broadens the scope of trans representation and narratives through her social media and online platforms, including her recently launched Youtube channel. Her channel acts as a resource in providing accessible information on trans specific issues, including accessing hormone replacement therapy, and changing one’s name and gender marker at the Department of Home Affairs. Working in tandem with her YouTube channel, Zoey runs a blog, which focuses on sharing her personal experiences and narrative as a transgender woman, including issues around discrimination and violence, mental health and wellness, and acceptance and tolerance. In addition, Zoey is studying toward a Bachelor of Laws, with intensions to enhance her capacity to further assist vulnerable persons and communities in accessing their rights, as well as contributing to the development of policy and legislation which will enhance, promote and protect the rights of marginalised members of society.

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Author, Cape Town, Content Creator, Filmmaker, Influencer, Interview, Organisation, Performer, Q&A, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Activist, Actor, Actress, Advice, Behind The Cut Masterclass, Cape Town, Content Creator, Filmmaker, Filmmaking, Gender Dynamix, Interview, Lawyer, Masterclass, Online Content, Q&A, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Trans Rights Activist, writer, Youtube, Youtuber, Zoey Black Leave a comment

A Conversation with Theresa Ryan – van Graan

Theresa Ryan – van Graan is a film producer. She heads up Penzance Films in conjunction with Oliver Hermanus and spent seven years as Head of Productions at Moonlighting Films. During this time, she was SA Production Executive on Season 4 of Homeland and actively involved in the servicing and pre-production of the films Invictus, Safe House, The Giver and Mad Max: Fury Road, amongst others. In addition to working with Oliver Hermanus on his previous film The Endless River, she is the co-producer of his latest film Moffie, which arrives in local cinemas on March 13th 2020.

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March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Culture, Film, Interview, Now Playing, Photography, Producer, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Television, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Advice, Conversation, Film, Filmmaker, Moffie, Moonlighting Films, Movie, Oliver Hermanus, Penzance Films, Producer, South Africa, Television, The Endless River, Theresa Ryan - van Graan, Women, Women in Film Leave a comment

A Conversation with Prue Leith

Prue Leith has made a name for herself internationally as a chef, restaurateur, author and entrepreneur. She founded the Prue Leith Chefs Academy in Centurion, which has trained many of South Africa’s top chefs. Internationally, she is well known for her role as a judge on The Great British Bake Off. She has published 14 cookbooks, a memoir, Relish and eight novels. Prue Leith’s career has included her own restaurants, catering and cookery school businesses. Prue has had a deep involvement with education and the arts: she chaired the first of the companies charged with turning around failing state schools and was Chair of the School Food Trust, responsible for the improvement of school food and food education. She started and led the campaign for contemporary sculpture to be exhibited on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. She has been active in many charities and is the Chancellor of Queen Margaret University. She is an advisor for the Government’s Hospital Food Review. Among her awards she has a CBE, 12 honorary degrees or fellowships from UK universities, the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the year, and her restaurant, Leith’s, won a Michelin star. Prue’s latest cookbook The Vegetarian Kitchen, which she wrote with her niece Peta Leith, will be released in March 2020.

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February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Advice, Arts, Author, Candice van Litsenborgh, Cape Town, Conversation, Interview, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Television, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Advice, Art, Author, Candice van Litsenborgh, Chef, Chef's Academy, Conversation, Cookbook, England, Fourth Plinth, Interview, Novelist, pan macmillan, Peta Leith, Photography, Prue Leith, Prue Leith Chefs Academy, Prue Leith Glasses, Relish, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, South African, Television, The Great British Bake Off, The Vegetarian Kitchen, TV, Vegetarian Kitchen, Women, writer Leave a comment

A Conversation with Clementine Mosimane

For more than 25 years, Clementine Mosimane has been a well-known South African Television actress and is best known for her role in the SABC1 production Soul City, starring in the show from 1994 to 2003. Clementine starred in the M-Net soap opera The Wild as Mama Rose Tladi. She has also guest-starred in a number of Television series including Yizo Yizo, Rhythm City, Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond and Stash. Recently, Clementine has taken on the recurring role of Aunt Thembi in the soap opera series Zabalaza, and also starred in the eTV telenovela Gold Diggers. Now, Clementine has lent her extraordinary talent to starring as Poppie Nongena in Christiaan Olwagen’s screen adaptation of Elsa Joubert’s novel, The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena. With the film releasing nationwide on January 31st, Clementine has already been awarded the 2019 Silwerskerm award for Best Actress in a Feature Film for her performance in Poppie Nongena. Continue reading →

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Artist, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Film, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Television, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Christiaan Olwagen, Clementine Mosimane, Conversation, Elsa Joubert, Film, Gold Diggers, KykNet, Mama Rose Tladi, Movie, Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond, Photography, Poppie Nongena, Rhythm City, Silwerskerm, Silwerskerm Fees, Soul City, South Africa, Stash, Television, The Wild, TV, Women, Yizo Yizo, Zabalaza 1 Comment

A Conversation with Rushney Ferguson

Rushney Ferguson is a triple threat performer from Cape Town having completed her advanced I.S.T.D training in Modern, Tap, Ballet, Jazz and Musical Theatre, including Associate qualifications, at the Waterfront Theatre School. Her theatre career started with David Kramer’s District Six: Kanala, Amper Famous and Langarm for which she received a Fleur du Cap nomination. Rushney also Dance Captained and starred in the revival of King Kong: Legend of a Boxer at The Fugard Theatre. Choreographically, she works regularly behind the scenes with many local artists like Emo Adams: Brother Love 2, Emo Celebrates 30 Years in Music and the live finale of Maak My Famous. She recently appeared as Juanita in David Kramer’s new musical Danger in the Dark which returns to the Baxter Theatre in March 2020. She is currently starring as Abigail in Aunty Merle: It’s a Girl!, the highly anticipated sequel based on Marc Lottering’s beloved character, Aunty Merle. Continue reading →

December 18, 2019January 22, 2020 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Baxter, Cape Town, Comedy, Conversation, Dancer, Fleur du Cap, Interview, Musical, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Abigail, Actor, Actress, Advice, Aunty Merle, Aunty Merle: It's a Girl!, Cape Town, Conversation, Danger in the Dark, David Kramer, Fleur du Cap, Marc Lottering, music, Musical, Rushney Ferguson, Singer, The Baxter, Theater, Waterfront Theater College, Women Leave a comment

A Conversation with Claudine Ullman

Claudine Ullman is an actress, improviser, stand-up comedian, public speaker, facilitator, and the founder and managing director of the Jittery Citizens. Having completed her Bachelor’s of Arts at Wits University, Claudine travelled widely, refining her craft at some of the top international performance schools. In 2012, she formed The Jittery Citizens Improvised Comedy Troupe, performing alongside South Africa’s top theatre/comedic talent. The Jittery Citizens are now considered to be Johannesburg’s premiere Improvisation troupe and have performed to packed houses in various venues across South Africa. Claudine is also an established theatre creator and performer, having toured with her one-woman show Curled Up in 2011, as well as having recently completed a successful run at the Grahamstown Arts Festival in Wretched. In 2019, she debuted her one-woman show Artificially Infeminated, which has since gone on to tour nationally and internationally. She also makes up one-third of The Thunderbirds comedy trio.

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December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Comedian, Comedy, Conversation, Culture, Entertainment, Interview, Joburg, Johannesburg, Performer, Photography, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Artificially Infeminated, Cape Town, Catching Feelings, Chin Up, Claudine Ullman, Clown, Clowning, Comedian, Comedy, Conversation, Helikos, Improv, Jittery Citizens, Johannesburg, LISPA, Photography, South Africa, Television, The Second City, Thunderbirds, TV, Women, Wretched Leave a comment

A Conversation with Nicola Hanekom

Nicola Hanekom has been a freelance actress, director and writer for the past twenty years. Her theatre work as writer/director includes a series of site-specific productions; Betésda, Lot, Babbel and Land van Skedels. As a writer and performer, Nicola created Trippie, and her self-penned one-woman show Hol/Running on Empty. These together with her latest play In glas have garnered twelve Kanna awards, eleven Fiësta awards, two ATKV writing awards and one Aartvark award. Nicola was also awarded the Eugène Marais Prize for her collection of plays Die pad byster. She has written and directed two short films, Trippie and Unspoken. Her short, Trippie won two Silwerskermfees awards. Cut-Out Girls is her first feature film and arrives in local cinemas on November 22nd.

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November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Author, Cape Town, Conversation, Director, Film, Filmmaker, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Playwright, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, SWIFT, Television, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, Womxn, writerTags: ACT, Actors, Actress, Advice, Babbel, Betésda, Cape Town, Conversation, Cut-Out Girls, Die pad byster, Director, Dwaalster, Film, Filmmaker, In glas, Land van Skedels, Lot, Movie, Nicola Hanekom, Performance, Photography, Television, Trippie, TV, Unspoken, Women, writer 1 Comment

A Conversation with Fiona Ramsay

Fiona Ramsay is one of South Africa’s leading actresses, working locally and overseas. A doyenne of the South African performing arts industry, over the course of 40 years her award-winning professional career has successfully spanned across film, television and theatre. She is also a lecturer at Wits University and is the founder of Speakeasy Vocal Academy where she specialises as a dialogue and dialect coach and runs vocal empowerment workshops. She is currently starring as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie at the Artscape Arena. Continue reading →

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Art, Artist, Arts, Artscape, Cape Town, Conversation, Director, Film, Interview, Joburg, Johannesburg, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, Television, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Abrahamse and Meyer Productions, Acting, Actor, Actress, Advice, Arcadia, Artscape Arena, Candice van Litsenborgh, Canned Rice Productions, Cape Town, Conversation, Decadence, Dialect Coach, Doyenne, Film, Fiona Ramsay, Fred Abrahamse, Night Mother, Opinion, Photography, South Africa, Speakeasy Vocal Academy, Sweet Bird of Youth, Television, Tennessee Williams, The Fugard, The Glass Menagerie, Theater, Theatre, Troupe Theatre Company, TV 6 Comments

A Conversation with Alexis Petersen

Alexis Petersen is a UCT Performance Diploma Graduate who majored in Western Classical Voice. She has performed on various stages both nationally and internationally. Alexis has performed in several musical theatre productions including Calling Us Home, The Little Mermaid and David Kramer’s Langarm. Her opera credits include FOUR:30, Le nozze di Figaro and La traviata. With a strong passion for dance, she has also competed as a ballroom dancer, dancing under the Federation of Dance Sport South Africa. She also features as a vocalist in a unique contemporary trio called Inside Voice. Alexis is currently starring at the Baxter Theatre as Pamela in Danger in the Dark, David Kramer’s re-imagining of the Kramer/Petersen ’90s hit, Poison. Continue reading →

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Art, Arts, Baxter, Cape Town, Conversation, Dance, Dancer, Interview, music, Musical, Now Playing, Opera, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, South Africa, The Baxter, Theater, Theatre, Uncategorized, Vocalist, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Advice, Alexis Peterson, Baxter Theatre, Calling Us Home, Conversation, Danger in the Dark, David Kramer, Interview, Langarm, music, Musical, Pamela, Photography, Poison, Sarafina Magazine, Singer, Theater, Theatre, UCT, Vocalist, Western Classical Voice, Women Leave a comment

A Conversation with Liezl de Kock

Liezl de Kock is an actor, director, theatre-maker and lecturer. She performed the lead role of Janet in the Ovation Award-winning and double Fleur du Cap Theatre Award winner Pictures of You, which was the highest-grossing theatre production on the fringe at the 2009 National Arts Festival. Liezl was also nominated for a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for her role in Rob Murray’s Womb Tide. She performed with Andrew Buckland in Crazy in Love, which received an Ovation Award and the Amsterdam Fringe Fest award for Best International Production. Her performance in Crazy in Love received a Naledi Theatre Award nomination. Her final Master’s production, Piet se Optelgoed won a Silver Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival and was nominated for Best International Production at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival. Earlier this year, she was nominated for a Naledi Theatre Award for her role as Sussie in Reza de Wet’s African Gothic directed by Alby Michaels. She is currently reprising her role in Athol Fugard’s Statements After an Arrest Under The Immorality Act at The Fugard Theatre following its debut run earlier this year at the 2019 Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees.

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October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 by Sarafina Magazine Categories: Actor, Actress, Advice, Arts, Cape Town, Conversation, Director, Interview, Now Playing, Performer, Photography, Production, Sarafina, Sarafina Magazine, South Africa, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Theatremaker, Uncategorized, Woman, Women, WomxnTags: Actor, Actress, Advice, Athol Fugard, Cape Town, Clown, Clowning, Conspiracy of Clowns, Conversation, Director, Greg Karvellas, Liezl De Kock, Photography, South Africa, Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act, The Fugard, Theater, Theatre, Theatre-maker, Women 1 Comment

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