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Music composed by late Bra Hugh Masakela will be used in the play “Gone native”. The play is running at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

It deals with the life and times of a white South African woman who fell in love and had a child with a black policeman during apartheid.

Love and sorrow are woven together in the production.

“Gone native” is a love story. This as Regina Brooks and Richard Khumalo defied the system of segregation in the 1950’s and let their love blossom.

The play reveals the struggle people of different colours endured because of the pass laws and the immorality Act.

Brooks and Khumalo were also convicted under the Immorality Act, for having a relationship with each other.

The couple became the first in South Africa to win their appeal against the segregation laws in the Supreme Court.

Regina Elizabeth Brooks still lives in Eldorado Park. The 86-year-old has seven children and 25 grandchildren.

The Play runs until June 30.

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