By Mzukona Mantshontsho
MANDLA QWABE benefited from the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa to produce a documentary film called KaNgwane the Legacy Project, a story that educates and exploits insights about the history of the Swazi people.
KaNgwane the Legacy is a documentary film based in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. KaNgwane was a Bantu-Stan intended by the apartheid government to be a semi-independent homeland for the Swazi people. Mandla Qwabe Creations had a mandate to use an artistic form of storytelling as a medium of communicating with communities in search for social change.
The production is inspired by the historical journey and people life’s experiences that were habitants of KaNgwane and surroundings since its inception up to this day.
The body of work recognises historical events, individuals and groups of people who took part in the development of the region since 1977 to 1994, be it in politics, economic development, socio economic development, heritage, education and population dispensation.
