Kalushi
New York African Film Festival 2017
May 3 - 9, 2017
Kalushi is a true story about Solomon Mahlangu, a nineteen-year-old hawker who fought against the brutal Apartheid regime and became an icon of South Africa’s liberation.
Kalushi is a true story about Solomon Mahlangu, a 19-year-old hawker from the streets of Mamelodi, a ghetto township outside Pretoria, South Africa. After being brutally beaten by police during the 1976 Soweto uprisings, he goes into exile and joins the liberation movement; a series of violent events lead Mahlangu on a journey that culminates in his being forced to stand trial for his life, using the courtroom as his final battlefield. A hero of the struggle against apartheid, Mahlangu would become an international icon of South Africa’s liberation.
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