Looking to catch a fliek this Friday? Well, look no further than Poppie Nongena.
It’s always great to support local - but let’s face it, with South Africa’s past of inequality, local is not always lekker.
The movie is set in the 1970s and follows domestic worker, Poppie Nongena, who is an Afrikaans-speaking isiXhosa mother living in Mzansi at a time where women were
forcibly removed from their families and placed in black homelands.
TOUCHING: A true-life story
She fought the government pass laws in order to stay with her family and when her husband fell ill, Poppie Nongena became an illegal resident in her own country.
The fliek, which stars Clementine Mosimane, Anna-Mart van der Merwe and Nomsa Nene, is a moving true-life story of an ordinary woman of strength who desperately fights to remain with her children by any means necessary.
The love for her family held no curfew, needed no permit and had no boundaries.