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28/09/2026

‘Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself…’

Carl Jung

There is something in these words that stays close to the heart of Mr Duiker Sang the Blues: the difficulty of reaching someone you love, even when they are right beside you.

Dyondzo Kwinika reflects:

‘Themba is not alone. There are people around him who love him and want to understand him, but there are things they cannot reach in him. There are things he cannot say either. The music gives some of those feelings somewhere to go.’

We are in the final week of Mr Duiker Sang the Blues at the The Market Theatre

The last performance is on 4 October 2026.

If you have been meaning to come, this is the time.

Tickets: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1597145329

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24/09/2026

On the opening night of Mr. Duiker Sang the Blues, Dyondzo Kwinika met Mme Yvonne Themba, one of Can Themba’s daughters.

Hearing her speak about her father and seeing her response to the work was a moment that stayed with him.

Kwinika says:

‘Winning the Can Themba Award was a great honour, but I’ve also become more aware of what it means to carry his name. I don’t want to write like Can Themba. I want to write from where I am, about the people and places I know and to write Black life with pride.’

The story won the inaugural DALRO Can Themba Merit Award. It is now on a stage in The Market Theatre

To know what came before us and to make something of our own. That, too, is living heritage.

Happy Heritage Day 🇿🇦

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19/09/2026

In April, Dyondzo Kwinika spoke about taking Mr. Duiker Sang the Blues from the page to the stage.

At the time, the short story had already been written and published in When Water Wants To. The play was still taking shape.

“The story was already there. What I had to learn was how to make it work in a theatre.”

That meant watching other plays, paying attention to how actors use space, listening to how words change when spoken and learning how to document the work as it developed. This recording captures that part of the journey, before the rehearsals were complete and the audience had arrived.

Mr Duiker Sang the Blues is now in front of an audience The Market Theatre

Come see it before the season closes on 4 October 2026.

Tickets: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1597145329

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15/09/2026

The people bringing Mr Duiker Sang the Blues to the stage.

What began as a short story by Dyondzo Kwinika , which went on to win the inaugural 2025 DALRO Can Themba Merit Award, has travelled from the page into the theatre. At its centre is Themba, a jazz musician, and the people who love him. The play stays close to family, friendship, grief, masculinity and mental health, while asking what remains when an artist is no longer here.

The cast brings these lives into the room: Desmond Dube as Ebenezer, Nomathamsanqa Ngoma as Evelyn, Tankiso as Marubini and William Harding as Josh.

The production is directed and dramaturged by Greg Homann, with Yogin Sullaphen and Pertunia Msani creating the live music that carries the story alongside the actors. The production also features movement direction by Nelisiwe Xaba.

The second preview is 16 September, with the official opening on 17 September. The production runs until 4 October at The Market Theatre, Newtown.

Tickets: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1597145329

Photography: 🇿🇦

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SouthAfricanLiterature

12/09/2026

They say Sundays are for lovers. We say they are for lovers and art.

Tomorrow we step into the first preview of Mr Duiker Sang the Blues by Dyondzo Kwinika. The short story won the inaugural 2025 DALRO Can Themba Merit Award and is now adapted for the stage.

The play is a work of fiction about a jazz musician, Themba, and the people who love him. It is about freedom, artistry and music. It is also about grief, mental health, family, masculinity and the people left behind.

If you are meant to be in that room, you will find your way to the .

13 September – 4 October 2026

Tickets:
https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=159714532

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10/09/2026

Behind the scenes with Dyondzo Kwinika

There is no better reason for us to invite you to come and explore this body of work that is about freedom, that is about artistry, that is about music.

Mr Duiker Sang the Blues asks what it costs to live as an artist, and what remains when the music stops. It is a story about grief, mental health, family and the people left to carry the song.

The story was recognised as the winning entry in the inaugural DALRO Can Themba Merit Award. It was published in When Water Wants To. It travelled through literary spaces and conversations. It is now being adapted for the stage.

The play opens at The Market Theatre on 17 September 2026, following previews on 13 and 16 September.

Tickets:
https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1597145329

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📹 Philangezwi Buhlebakhe Mhlekwa Nxumalo

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06/09/2026

A recent conversation between writer Dyondzo Kwinika and hip-hop artist Love, Richardo at Cape Town International Airport opened up a reflection on the relationship between hip-hop and literature, and the need for these forms to engage with each other more in South Africa.

Hip-hop and literature are often placed in separate categories, yet both are concerned with language, memory, place and the work of making sense of lived experience. Both tell stories about people, communities and the worlds they inhabit.

In South Africa, storytelling has never belonged only to books. Stories have travelled through oral traditions, music, poetry, conversation and performance. These forms have carried memory across generations and created language for experiences that might otherwise remain unheard.

The conversation between different art forms matters. Writers and musicians do not need to become the same thing, nor does one form need the other to validate it. But there is value in listening to one another and recognising the ways in which our different practices often meet.

The Dyondzo Kwinika Foundation believes in creating space for these conversations and in recognising the many forms through which stories are told, shared and remembered.

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05/09/2026

During “Reflections on Parents” at the Open Book Festival , Dyondzo Kwinika reflected on fatherhood and masculinity through Mr Duiker Sang the Blues.

What happens when a man grows up without a father and later becomes one himself?

In the story, Ebenezer is trying to be present for his children while carrying the absence of his own father. His love sometimes becomes overcompensation. His fear sometimes becomes control.

The question that remains is a difficult one.

How do we become fathers when we are still trying to understand the fathers we never had?

Those questions now continue on stage.

Mr Duiker Sang the Blues runs at The Market Theatre from 13 September to 4 October 2026.

Tickets:
https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1597145329

📸 Mfuneli Ntumbuka

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05/09/2026

Sometimes the best moments at a literary festival happen between the serious conversations.

After his panel, Dyondzo Kwinika sat beside fellow author Sue Nyathi to sign books.

He noticed she was signing more than him.

His explanation?

Her handwriting.

Sue found this very funny.

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16/06/2026

YOUTH DAY 2026

“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it.”
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

Dyondzo Kwinika, inaugural winner of DALRO Can Themba Merit Award for Mr Duiker Sang the Blues participated in a June 16 commemorative dialogue hosted by SkX, reflecting on Fanon's enduring challenge to successive generations.

The conversation brought together Adv. Sipho Mantula, a Pan-Afrikan advocate and public intellectual whose work engages questions of governance, culture and African self-determination, and Seth Mazibuko, one of the youngest leaders of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and a former Robben Island political prisoner.

In conversation with the panel, Dyondzo Kwinika reflected on the responsibilities facing young people in contemporary South Africa. Drawing on Fanon's words, he challenged his generation not only to participate in the country's socio-economic transformation, but also to develop the courage to lead it.

At the centre of the discussion was a simple but urgent question:
What is the mission of this generation, and how will it answer it?

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