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Filmmaker · South Africa

Gibson Kente

Died in 2004

Gibson Kente was born in 1932 in Duncan Village, near East London. He came to Johannesburg to study social work at the Jan H. Hofmeyr school, but did not finish his studies and joined the artists of Dorkay House, where he learned musical theatre, before directing the Union Artists troupe. He then founded his own company, GK Productions, and wrote more than twenty plays, as well as a few television plays. Arrested in 1976, he was not released until 1977. He died on 7 November 2004, at the age of seventy-two.

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