http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=H_VqHgx7P28

Zakes Mda talks to Oxford University Press Southern Africa about his book The Madonna of
Excelsior and about the story and circumstances that caused him to write it. This novel is based
on the notorious 1971 case in which nineteen citizens of Excelsior in the Free State were
charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between black and white.
It is often prescribed by teachers and lecturers around the country

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA8APBlasY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwGxNitaaSo

Madonna of Excelsior Part I

The small town of Excelsior in 1971 saw fourteen black women and five white men arrested
under apartheid's Immorality Act which forbade sex between blacks and whites. The saga
attracted media attention all over the world. The director of The Madonna of Excelsior, Roel
Twijnstra, journeyed to the dorp with his entire cast and crew finding that not much has
changed. The play, adapted from the lauded novel by Zakes Mda, gives voice to the
complexities of veiled truths and unresolved history. cueTV gets director Roel Twijnstrato
explore the ghost stories in Excelsior, the psyche of South Africa and the importance of closure
in the process of healing and adapting identity.