Film Screening: Mapantsula
June 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CDT
Peace Alliance Winnpeg and Apartheid Free Communities, in collaboration with Amnesty International, present a rare screening of Mapantsula.
Date: June 19, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: First Mennonite Church, 922 Notre Dame Ave.
Admission: Free admission as part of Apartheid Awareness Movie Nights. (Donations to Peace Alliance Winnipeg are welcome.)
Widely known as the first feature film made by and about Black South Africans during the apartheid era, Mapanstula (1988) is set in Johannesburg and the township of Soweto during the heights of South African apartheid. Panic is a cynical young man interested in living a pleasure-seeking life, caught up in partying and petty crime in the township. Gradually, he begins to see the people around him drawn into the growing anti-apartheid movement. During a local police raid, he’s swept up alongside political activists.