The death of “South Africa’s novel” Sparks Sadness and anger

The death of a beloved star usually follows a lot of sadness, but in South Africa a loss last week, actress Nandi Nimby, 75, came with anger.

People felt sorrow because in the last months of her life, a sick woman has been clearly reduced to At attractive videos for financial help.

She was sitting on a wheelchair, with a gray Rafis hair, wearing a loose T -shirt and wool pajamas, she said she did not like people feel pity on her, but she needed money to cover the basics. She was the biggest call for more work so that she could support herself.

This was far from the manifestations of its most famous screen.

As a leadership in some of the major TV series over the past decades, her face has emerged in the homes of South Africa and has become a familiar weekly presence.

It was known as Mam’nandi, and for some, for some, she lost a close loss.

She praised her honor issued by her family and the government in the name of “The Spirit of South African Stories.”

She was “more than just an actress”, but she was also a teacher and a guide “broke down barriers” and “young actors inspiring in villages and towns for a dream beyond their circumstances.”

Looking at this situation, the way she appeared late in life was more shocking.

After a long illness, her death has sparked a debate about the lack of support for artists in South Africa who cannot work and shed light on the conflict that has been overwhelmed by the scenes behind the scenes.

After the initial appearance fees, the actors in South Africa do not receive any royalties for the subsequent broadcast of their work.

They are employed as independent sources, and as a result, they do not get any of the potential benefits – such as pension and health coverage – which may be available to regular employees.

This means that “every single actor is active in this country at the present time on an inevitable road to where he was Mamanandi,” said Jack Defenin, head of the South African actors’ team (SAGA), for the BBC.

He said it was painful to witness Nimby’s struggles in these final videos, knowing that “this will not end well.”

“Because there is no amount of charity in the world that will determine the structural problems within the creative sector.”

The actor himself, Divenin remembered the pride of the years of the glory of Nimbie, saying how it was “welcoming and warm” towards him as a young artist.

“In the presence of Mansani, you knew that you are in the presence of property rights.”

NYIMIBE was born in 1950 in Kliptown, the oldest part of the Soweto – The Black Township outside Johannesburg. Her mother was an actress and click a dancer and her father was a boxer, according to the spaces of the online publishing representative.

She quoted as saying: She quoted her saying that her family moved a lot during her childhood, and as a result, she grew up with “different and varied people.”

Her representative career began in the seventies of the last century at the height of the era of apartheid, when the state imposed the apartheid.

With limited chances of blacks, NYIMIBE has been often thrown on the role of the maid whenever she is tested. “I was disturbed by inequality and persecution and started participating in the protest theater,” she told South Africa in 2017.

Despite this download, it would later continue to make her first fingerprint in the theater and then on many TV programs and films by the nineties.

Among the TV roles that were famous for was the repeated character of a positive nurse to HIV in the dramatic city of spirit in the hospital. It lasted in 1994 – the year of the first democratic elections in South Africa and at a time when people fought to talk about HIV/AIDS, which quickly became a national crisis.

In another famous series, Yizo Yizo, she played a mother in a presentation of the rough facts of life in the town of South Africa.

On the big screen, the fans in turn were captured as the owner of Singoma, or a traditional processor, in the movie South Africa, which was nominated for the Academy Award 2004 yesterday.

“She was very passionate about her work … this is what she lived in her family,” said her grandson Gabolani Nimby.

She was “always looking to improve her craft” and “she always wanted to do better job”, but at the same time “her career was also (about) building other actors and actresses through her work.”

Besides acting, he remembers her as a person who is always ready to help others within her community, “family column” and “spine”.

He touched on the viral video, and admitted that NYIMIBe faced challenges at the end of her life, before adding that the family helped her as much as she could.

The actor’s epic was at the forefront of pressure for legal changes to prevent similar positions.

Two parliamentary projects were presented in 2017 aimed at giving actors “the right to win royalties for the first time in the history of South Africa,” according to Devnarain.

“This is why it is decisive to survive the sector,” he said.

After years from behind, they finally ended up with President Cyril Ramavusa’s office for signing it in 2024.

But he has since referred both projects to the Constitutional Court, concerned that it could affect the elements stipulated in the constitution by putting restrictions retroactively on copyright.

These actors were left stuck in forgetting.

“Any actor who is in the cinema or television now must understand that as long as you continue to work, you will end up to fulfill your money,” Divenin said.

“The government has failed the entire sector and failed in Mansani.”

At a memorial ceremony in Johannesburg on Thursday, actress Lirato Muffles also criticized the government for presenting more than just a “ventilation” for actors.

“How much time should we hear the same speeches (in memorial services)? What is the time that we should face the same links about the need for the policy structures that will protect us as actors?” I asked.

But the Minister of Culture Gaiton McKenzi, who rarely out of the fighting, returned to critics, saying that he had responded personally to Nimbie’s ordeal when she was alive and the government helped the family and pay for a funeral on Saturday.

“We work day and night to change the ordeal of designs, and soon they will have a funeral cover and hospital care and pay a policy for their children. We really care as we cost to change their lives,” he wrote on Facebook.

Any changes now, of course, very late for NYIMIBE.

In the memorial, the famous director Angus Gibson touched on this, describing how she would ask him to work during difficult times.

“Although she is a great actress as it was, she did not protect her from a difficult world,” he said.