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THE ORIGIN STORY OF
PEACEPLAYERS SOUTH AFRICA
Anyone who talks about the beginnings of PeacePlayers South Africa, dives straight into the story
of when the affluent, predominantly white private school Clifton boarded a bus and traveled to the
black township of Umlazi. Mthoko Madonda, founding member of PeacePlayers South Africa shares,
“I remember thinking I don’t think this has ever been done before.”
There was one thing that stuck with Mthoko most about that day: “There was this white camera
woman or producer. And so, as kids started singing, they were singing just this beautiful kind of Zulu
melody, and I caught her out of the corner of my eye, and she was sobbing.”
“So, most of the time, the only experience of blackness [white people] see is people that are maids or
cleaners, so they don’t really know how to relate to the beauty of the culture, so that is what she was
feeling, and we did that. We did that in 2001-2002 as a bunch of 20-year-olds.”
FIND THE FULL ORIGIN STORY AT PEACEPLAYERS.ORG/SOUTH-AFRICA
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