Zimkhitha from gqeberha real name
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The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver
Ms Nomhle Nkonyeni Awarded for:
Her excellent contribution to the performing arts. Over many decades, she has shown durability and adaptability. She has graced national and international stages, and her mastery of her craft has moved many audiences locally and around the world.
Profile of Nomhle Nkonyeni
Ms Nomhle Nkonyeni is a renowned veteran actress who has shared her gift with audiences, in Africa and internationally, for the past five decades.
Her wealth of experience has been gained through her outstanding work as a stage, screen and television (TV) actor and director. Born in 1942, in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, she has established herself and has appropriately been identified as a major part of the history of theatre in this country.
Through the Serpent drama group, which performed anti-apartheid classics, she is one of the few remaining members, with John Kani and Athol Fugard having received their National Orders. Nkonyeni’s contribution to the arts has been described as immeasurable by his
peers.
Her diverse skill
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Nomhle Nkonyeni
Nomhle Nkonyeni (1942-2019) was an actress on stage and film.
Sometimes billed as Nomhle Nkoyeni.
Biography
She was born in Aggrey Road in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, in April 1942 and started her acting career in theatre at the age of 19 and would go on to become one of the first black women to set foot on an apartheid stage in South Africa. She started with the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth in the early 1970s. Then went to The Space in Cape Town (where her mother Elizabeth was a cleaner) before moving to the then Transvaal to become a stalwart of the Market Theatre, working with Barney Simon, and star in a range of TV and film productions. She later turned her hand to directing and in this, according to Loren Kruger (1999, p239) became the first black African woman director of literary drama in South Africa.
In 2005 the Naledi Theatre Awards presented Nomhle with a Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2016, she was also recognised by the SAFTAs.
Nomhle died on Wednesday, July 1 2019, in hospital in Port Eizabeth.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, •
Nomhle Nkonyeni
South African actress (1942–2019)
Nomhle Nkonyeni
Born (1942-04-09)April 9, 1942
New Brighton, South Africa
Died July 10, 2019(2019-07-10) (aged 77)
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Nationality South African Occupation Actor Years active 1961–2019 Children Thabang Nkonyeni (daughter)
Tebogo Nkonyeni (son)
Nomhle Nkonyeni (9 April 1942 – 10 July 2019[1]) was a South African actress who has appeared in television series such as Mzansi, Tsha Tsha and the 2007 mini-series Society, as well as feature films such as Of Good Report (2013).[2]
Career
Starting in the 1961 during apartheid, Nkonyeni and others who wanted to change their lives using the stage met with Athol Fugard and formed the Serpent Players.[3][4] In 1981, she played the lead role in Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena (The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena), at the CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Board) theatre in Cape Town.[5] She said, “I was the first black person to perform on that stag
Nomhle Nkonyeni
South African actress (1942–2019)
Nomhle Nkonyeni | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1942-04-09)April 9, 1942 New Brighton, South Africa |
| Died | July 10, 2019(2019-07-10) (aged 77) Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
| Nationality | South African |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1961–2019 |
| Children | Thabang Nkonyeni (daughter) Tebogo Nkonyeni (son) |
Nomhle Nkonyeni (9 April 1942 – 10 July 2019[1]) was a South African actress who has appeared in television series such as Mzansi, Tsha Tsha and the 2007 mini-series Society, as well as feature films such as Of Good Report (2013).[2]
Career
Starting in the 1961 during apartheid, Nkonyeni and others who wanted to change their lives using the stage met with Athol Fugard and formed the Serpent Players.[3][4] In 1981, she played the lead role in Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena (The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena), at the CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Board) theatre in Cape Town.[5] She said, “I was the first black person to perform on that stag
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