Things you may not know about the legendary South African actor John Kani, who play’s T’challa’s Father/King T’chaka in Black Panther.
He lost his left eye to a beating he received from Apartheid Police and wears a glass prosthetic eye.
in the mid 1980′s, he performed in a play called “Miss Julie in Cape Town” Half of the audience walked out of the production when he kissed a white woman on stage – an act that resulted in death threats and an assassination attempt, in which he was stabbed 11 times.
in 1985, he lost his brother who was killed whilst reading a poem at a funeral when Apartheid police started shooting up at the mourners.
all of this happened in a minority ruled white supremacist country formed ON land where his people where the natives and the majority, apartheid “ended” in 1994.
sources:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/dominic-cavendish/4589941/The-Tempest-How-a-legend-of-African-theatre-was-stabbed-11-times.html
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/bonisile-john-kani
https://www.gauteng.net/pages/page/john_kani
