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Two of the Mother City's most creative sons, David Kramer and the late Taliep Petersen, will be honoured in a Freedom of the City ceremony taking place this afternoon at City Hall, with a live stream available to the public.
Petersen, who died in 2006, will receive the honour posthumously, with his family accepting on his behalf.
Members of the public unable to attend in person will be able to follow along online as the city bestows its highest civic honour on two figures who shaped South African musical theatre and Cape Town’s cultural identity.
Watch the livestream event here:
This iconic duo gave South Africa some of its most celebrated stage productions, including the landmark District Six: The Musical (which premiered in 1987 at the height of the apartheid era) and the internationally acclaimed Kat and the Kings. Both of these icons helped shape the country’s cultural landscape - and my own love of theatre - with unforgettable performances at the Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch.
As Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said in his announcement of their upcoming, this honour recognises how Kramer and Petersen “not only entertained generations but helped shape the cultural heritage of the Western Cape and South African musical theatre.”
It also places Kramer and Petersen among a select group of Freedom of the City recipients that includes SA's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
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