Death of “South African narrative” sparks

Death is a very beloved star, usually accompanied by the pouring of grief, but in South Africa last week’s loss of 75-year-old Nandy Nembe’s 75-year-old actress also came with anger.

People have been upset that in the last months of her life is obviously a sick woman came down to Appearing on videos that turn to financial aid.

Sitting in a wheelchair, with thin, gray hair, in a loose T -shirt and pajaman flaps, she said she didn’t like the people who regret her, but she needed money to cover the basics. Her biggest request was for more work so she could support herself.

It was a distant cry from her more famous screen performances.

As a presenter in some major television series over the last decades, her face has been snapped at the South African houses, and she became familiar with the weekly presence.

Respectful as Monandi, her passage, for some, felt how to lose his close relative.

The tribute, jointly released by her family and the government, recognized her “South African narrative”.

She was “much more than the actress”, but also a teacher and a guide who “broke the barriers” and “inspired young actors in villages and towns to dream in their circumstances.”

Given this status, the way it appeared at the end of life was even more shocking.

Her death, after a long illness, returned a debate about the lack of support for South African artists who are unable to work, and shone the spotlight in the fight, which many stand behind the scenes.

After the initial board for the appearance of actors in South Africa, they do not receive royalties for the next broadcasts of their work.

They work as freelancers, and as a result, they do not get any possible benefits – such as pensions and health – which can be available for ordinary employees.

This means that “every actor who is currently working in this country is on the inevitable path to where Monomandi was,” said BBC Jack Devnorin, South African Actors Guild (Saga).

He said it was painful to testify to the struggle of the nimb in these latest videos, knowing that “it would not end well.”

“Because there is no virtue in the world that will correct structural problems in the creative sector.”

The actor himself, the devil from the swamp remembered the years of glory, saying how “welcoming and warm” she was to him as a young artist.

“In the presence of Monandi you knew that you were in the presence of Royalti.”

Nyembe was born in 1950 in Kliptown, the oldest part of the Covenant – Black -Gorodka near Johannesburg. Her mother was an actress and a tap dancer, and her father is a boxer, reports the Internet -Akter.

Her family moved a lot as a child, and as a result she grew up with “different, diverse people”.

Her acting career began in the 1970s in the midst of the apartheid, when the state legally fulfilled the racial segregation.

With the disabilities for black people, Nyembe was mostly canceled as a maid every time it was listening. She told the magazine of South Africa in 2017: “Inequality and oppression angered me and I started participating in the protest theater.”

Despite this type, it will later continue, first in the theater, and then in various TV shows and films until the 1990s.

Among the television roles, which she was most famous, was the repetitive character of the HIV nurse in the Soul City Hospital. It has been held since 1994 – in the year of the first democratic elections in South Africa and at a time when people fought to talk about HIV/AIDS, which quickly became a national crisis.

In another popular Yizo Yizo series, she played an educational mother in the show, who captured the raw realities of life in the South African settlement.

On the big screen, she captured the viewers with her role as a Songom, or a traditional witch doctor, yesterday in the South African film, nominated for Oscar 2004.

“She was extremely passionate about her work … This is what she lived outside her family,” said her grandson Jabulani Numbe.

She “always sought to improve her skills” and “always wanted to do better”, but at the same time “her career was also (about) the construction of other actors and the actress through her work.”

In addition to acting, he remembers her as someone is always ready to help others in his community and as a “pole of the family” and their “base”.

He touched on a viral video, admitting that Nembe had faced problems at the end of his life before adding that the family helped her as much as she could.

The Saga Guild actor appears in the forefront in the pressing legal changes to prevent such situations.

According to Devnarain, two bills were submitted to the parliament aimed at giving actors “the right to earn fees for the first time in the history of South Africa.”

“That’s why they are crucial for the survival of the sector,” he said.

After many years ahead and back, they finally appeared on the table of President Cyril Ramaphos for his signature in 2024.

But since then, he has sent both bills to the Constitutional Court, concerned that they could affect the elements laid down in the Constitution, posting retrospective restrictions on copyright.

This left the actors who were stuck in the suspended state.

“Any actor who is now on movies or television should understand that as long as you continue to work, you are going to survive your money,” Dovnorin said.

“The government failed the whole sector, and they failed Momnadi.”

At the funeral service in Johannesburg, on Thursday, Aktress Lerati Mvelaz also undermined the government for offering the actors a little more than a “lullaby”.

“How long should we hear the same speeches (at funerals)? How long should we have the same interactions about the need for policy that will protect us as actors?” she asked.

But Culture Minister Gaetan McKenzi, who rarely deviates from the fight, reflected the critics, saying that he personally responded to the difficult position of Nuebe when she was alive, and the government helped the family and pay for the funeral on Saturday.

“We work the day and night to change the difficult position of the creators, they will soon have a funeral, hospital and paying for their children. We really do not care, and we are instructed to change their lives,” he wrote on Facebook.

Any changes now, of course, too late for Nyembe.

The famous director Angus Gibson touched on the memorial, describing how she asks in his work in difficult times.

“Just like the actor, like her, he did not protect her from the cruel world,” he said.