Winston Ntshona

Winston Ntshona was a South African playwright and actor whose collaborations with John Kani and Athol Fugard produced the influential anti-apartheid plays *Sizwe Banzi Is Dead* and *The Island*. His performances in both works earned him and Kani Tony Awards in 1975, bringing South African protest theatre to Broadway. Ntshona later appeared in films including *Gandhi* and *A Dry White Season*, and received South Africa’s Order of Ikhamanga in Silver in 2010 for his contribution to theatre and the arts.