Shacks in an informal settlement in South Africa. File photo, illustrative. Photo: Martinvl / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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South Africa: What Happens When a Shack Appears in a Gated Community?
Playwright Amy Jephta's new work explores race, class, land and the pressures of fitting in.
Playwright Amy Jephta's new play explores race, class, land and the pressures of fitting in, GroundUp reports.
Background
Amy Jephta is a Cape Town-based playwright, screenwriter and director whose work has been staged in South Africa and abroad.
Land, housing and spatial inequality remain among the most contested issues in South Africa more than three decades after the end of apartheid, with informal settlements often sitting alongside wealthy, walled estates in the same city.
GroundUp is a non-profit news agency based in Cape Town whose reporting is republished by other South African outlets.
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Playwright Amy Jephta’s new work explores race, class, land and the pressures of fitting in.
Playwright Amy Jephta’s new play explores race, class, land and the pressures of fitting in, GroundUp reports.
Background
Amy Jephta is a Cape Town-based playwright, screenwriter and director whose work has been staged in South Africa and abroad.
Land, housing and spatial inequality remain among the most contested issues in South Africa more than three decades after the end of apartheid, with informal settlements often sitting alongside wealthy, walled estates in the same city.
GroundUp is a non-profit news agency based in Cape Town whose reporting is republished by other South African outlets.
KNN Newsroom is the staff byline for stories written, rewritten and edited at the Kibra News Network desk. Where a story credits an outside outlet, the original source is linked at the foot of the piece.
