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Kalushi

Kalushi

Section: Long Narrative

Country: South Africa

Production Year: 2016

Runtime: 106 MIN

Directed by: Mandlankayise Walter Dube

Written by: Mandlankayise Walter Dube, Leon Otto

Cinematography by: Tommy (Maddox) Upshaw

Edited by: Craig Hayes

Cast: Thabo Rametsi, Thabo Malema, Welile Nzuza

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Synopsis: This is the true story of the nineteen-year-old hawker Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu who came from the streets of Mamelodi, a ghetto township outside Pretoria. When he is brutally beaten by the police, Kalushi goes into exile to Angola following the 1976 Soweto uprisings to join the liberation movement. On their way home, his friend Mondy shoots two innocents in Johannesburg and so Kalushi is forced to stand trial under the common purpose doctrine.