Bra Boikie's death leaves a huge void

THE spear has fallen, signalling the end of an era as the South African TV, film and theatre industry bids farewell to the doyen of black performing arts, Boikie Mohlamme.
Tributes and condolences are pouring in after the death of the 84-year-old TV and film actor and producer this week, eight days before his birthday. He died of heart failure at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. Mohlamme and his wife, Roseline Morapedi, were the faces of local TV dramas during the dark days of apartheid in the 1970s and '80s. She died in a car crash in 1997. He was famous for single-handedly challenging the SABC to pay royalties to the families of dead actors for reruns of programmes they appeared in. Muvhango executive producer Duma kaNdlovu , said he met Mohlamme when he was staging his theatre production Mohlomola in the 1970s.

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