She has an illustrious career that started at the Mbongeni Ngema Academy in 2004-2007 as Managing Director acting.

This creative mind has a new production showing at Durban’s Playhouse Theatre and she used an experience as simple as doing her shopping with some street vendors and the moments this has yielded.

Mapule has been involved in such productions as eHostela S3, Umkhokha S1, UZalo S9, Gomora, Imbewu and Durban Gen as well as her work on the stage play Students – Azibuye Esezadlula, as a scriptwriter and director.

“Being a radio presenter in two community Radio stations, Imbokodo FM where I discovered my presenting skills and Inanda FM as a presenter, Sales and Marketing Manager and later I became a producer of an award-winning show,” she says remarking on some of her career highlights.

 

“Also, the awards received for my show and producing best show Asilungiseni, to work in different TV productions in one year and working with the legends in theatre and TV industry- Late Dr Mbongeni Ngema.

Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba
This production focuses on the lives of women who earn a living as street food vendors.
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“I was the first and the only female she directed her play, not one he had written. And working with the like of Jerry Pooe also adapting a book to a Stage Play Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba.”

She says her productions Azibuye Esezadlula and Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba were particularly memorable.

“The outstanding performance, performance and well-known professional cast members in the industry,” she says revealing what made this production stand out for her.

The story of her last eat production Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba involves,

“Women Street vendors. A love story, one with struggles, history, their billion-dollar contribution to the GDP and how their mothers transferred their skills to them, of which they have doctors, and highly qualified students in their families and now they can do that to some of their kids.

“We highlight how any give solutions and we encourage women’s emancipation, unity and supporting each other through the play.”

The cast includes Mpume Mthombeni. Sam Hlophe, Joy Mbewana, Sibu Shangase and rising talents Sindi, Kholeka, Zama and Ayanda.

“I am into telling women’s stories, encouraging them to document. We don’t have formulas to raise a human being but if we speak and document our stories then others can learn from those stories. I always want to see women speaking in one voice, collaborating and want to show the power of women – She has an illustrious career that started at the Mbongeni Ngema Academy in 2004-2007 as Managing Director acting.

This creative mind has a new production showing at Durban’s Playhouse Theatre and she used an experience as simple as doing her shopping with some street vendors and the moments this has yielded.

Mapule has been involved in such productions as eHostela S3, Umkhokha S1, UZalo S9, Gomora, Imbewu and Durban Gen as well as her work on the stage play Students – Azibuye Esezadlula, as a scriptwriter and director.

“Being a radio presenter in two community Radio stations, Imbokodo FM where I discovered my presenting skills and Inanda FM as a presenter, Sales and Marketing Manager and later I became a producer of an award-winning show,” she says remarking on some of her career highlights.

“Also, the awards received for my show and producing best show Asilungiseni, to work in different TV productions in one year and working with the legends in theatre and TV industry- Late Dr Mbongeni Ngema.

Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba
This production focuses on the lives of women who earn a living as street food vendors.
Supplied
“I was the first and the only female she directed her play, not one he had written. And working with the like of Jerry Pooe also adapting a book to a Stage Play Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba.”

She says her productions Azibuye Esezadlula and Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba were particularly memorable.

“The outstanding performance, performance and well-known professional cast members in the industry,” she says revealing what made this production stand out for her.

The story of her last eat production Omama Abahlobisi Bomhlaba involves,

“Women Street vendors. A love story, one with struggles, history, their billion-dollar contribution to the GDP and how their mothers transferred their skills to them, of which they have doctors, and highly qualified students in their families and now they can do that to some of their kids.

“We highlight how any give solutions and we encourage women’s emancipation, unity and supporting each other through the play.”