Sophiatown

• Sophiatown


  People who live in 65 Gerty Stred
• Main Character


  • Jakes
  • He's a young journalist
  • He's the narrator
• Mingus


  • He's Marita's son
  • He's Lulu's brother
  • He lives close by in Toby Street
  • With Jakes's help, starts a relationship with a girl named Precious Princess
• Fahfee

  • He's a Transual Congress member
  • Writes stories for Drum magazine
  • Rents a house that's a shebeen
  • The owner is Mamania
  • He takes her 16 year old to live in Gerty Street
• Charlie


  • He's Mingus's sidekick
  • He does whatever Mingus tells him
• The Chinese man


  • He runs a gambling game called
  • It's active in resisting the government
• The main function of the endocrine system is to secrete hormones into the bloodstream, which then travel throughout the body.
• Sophiatown

  A mixed race area that the government did not like and wanted races to live separately
• Mingus wants Ruth to stay

  Because she will help educate his sister Luly
• Mingus gets aggressive towards women


  He hits Princess until she loves him and chases Ruth around the room
• Ruth is confused


  About her identity as a Jewish, white, South African
• Jakes speaks many languages

  And is voicing his protest against the segregation that is coming
• Lulu writes about her family

  Describing her brother as a gangster and her mother as hardworking
• Fahfee has dreamed of the numbers 26 and 27

  Which mean dogs, policemen and trouble, and the number 8 which means a white man
• The police will start the forced removals at Toby Street on the 12th of February
• No one wants to move to Meadowlands
• Fahfee will lose his job if he is separated from his Chinese boss
• The characters come together singing a song called "Medowlands" to show their defiance, saying they will not get to Meadowlands
• Mingus tells Ruth to go back to Yeoville
• Director


  Malcolm Purkey
• Jakes


  • The main character and narrator of the play
• Mamariti


  • Owns the house and shebeen where the characters live
• Mingus


  • Mamariti's son, a gangster who lives close by in Toby Street
• Princess


  • A girl Mingus brings to live in the house
• Charlie


  • Mingus's sidekick who does whatever Mingus tells him to do