{"id":315830,"date":"2026-05-06T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/?p=315830"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:40:23","slug":"graham-hopkins-gee-gestalte-aan-sachs-se-sagte-wraak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/graham-hopkins-gee-gestalte-aan-sachs-se-sagte-wraak\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Hopkins gee gestalte aan Albie Sachs se \u2018sagte wraak\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEk moet erken ek is \u2019n optimis,\u201d het Albie Sachs, \u2019n voormalige regter van die konstitusionele hof en mede-argitek van Suid-Afrika se Grondwet, \u2019n paar jaar gelede in \u2019n voordrag in Stellenbosch ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMiskien selfs \u2019n ongeneeslike optimis,\u201d het hy bygevoeg. \u201cAlles in die land is nie pluis nie, en dit is nie die samelewing waarvoor ons geveg het nie,\u201d het hy voortgegaan, \u201cmaar dit is die land waarvoor ons geveg het en ons moet die land red en die Grondwet wat ons het, gebruik om die samelewing te bou wat ons graag wil h\u00ea\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dit is die einste Albie Sachs wat nou gestalte kry in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webtickets.co.za\/v2\/event.aspx?itemid=1592210160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Albie Sachs, Fathers, Sons, and Soft Vengeance<\/a><\/em>, \u2019n nuwe solostuk uit die pen van Gail Louw. Graham Hopkins vertolk die rol van Sachs en Fiona Ramsay is die regisseur van di\u00e9 produksie wat tans in Theatre on the Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, opgevoer word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopkins en Ramsay het verlede jaar elkeen \u2019n Fleur du Cap-toekenning opgeraap \u2013 Ramsay in <em>Blonde Poison <\/em>(ook \u2019n teks van Louw) vir die beste optrede in \u2019n revue, kabaret of solostuk, en Hopkins in <em>My Fair Lady<\/em> vir die beste optrede in \u2019n ondersteunende rol in \u2019n musiekspel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louw se teks is gebaseer op \u2019n reeks onderhoude wat sy met Sachs gevoer het en ook op <em>The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter<\/em>, Sachs se boek wat in 1990 verskyn het, waarin hy onder meer skryf oor die bomontploffing in Maputo in 1988 waarin hy sy regterarm en sig in een oog verloor het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter: Albie Sachs at TEDxEuston\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pS4g5sPU5eU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sachs was \u2019n vooraanstaande lid van die ANC en die bom was die werk van die destydse Suid-Afrikaanse veiligheidsmagte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die toneelstuk volg twee verweefde bewussynstrome: Aan die een kant die bom, die verwoestende fisieke en geestelike impak en die lang reis na herstel, en aan die ander kant Sachs se refleksie oor sy verhouding met sy pa, die vakbondman Solly Sachs, sowel as sy seuns, veral sy jong seun, Oliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die karakter van Sachs besin oor die werklikheid dat Oliver en sy geslag grootword in \u2019n Suid-Afrika waar Apartheid bekend is as feite, eerder as emosie. En sommige van di\u00e9 geslag ken nie eens die feite nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDie oogmerk is nie om die geskiedenis lewend te hou nie,\u201d s\u00ea Hopkins, \u2019n akteur wat bekend is daarvoor dat hy indringend navorsing doen oor die karakters wat hy vertolk, oor sy benadering tot die stuk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaar meer dat dit gaan oor die erkenning waar hierdie land vandaan kom en waarom die komplekse stryd van vandag be\u00efnvloed word deur die moontlik eenvoudiger en meer direkte stryd van die verlede.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geklee in \u2019n bont hemp, soos di\u00e9 waarin Sachs dikwels gesien word en met \u2019n panamahoed op die kop, s\u00ea Hopkins hy probeer nie Sachs naboots nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEk en Fiona het besluit dat die akteur die man bloot moet voorstel, met sy eie woorde en emosies wat in die eerste persoon uitgespreek word, eerder as om hom fisiek na te boots. Ek dink die minimalistiese ontwerp beklemtoon di\u00e9 gedagte.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sandton&#039;s Theatre on the Square to stage new play on Albie Sachs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/czv-45BrrzM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oor sy verhouding met sy regisseur s\u00ea Hopkins \u201cons is soos \u2019n ou getroude paartjie wat knorrig met mekaar kan wees sonder om aanstoot te neem\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die twee is al 40 jaar vriende en kollegas. \u201cOns het mekaar die eerste keer geregisseer in Alan Bennett se <em>Talking Heads<\/em>, 33 jaar gelede. Drie jaar gelede het ons saamgewerk aan en opgetree in \u2019n produksie van <em>Hansard<\/em> deur Simon Woods. Ons ken mekaar se manier van werk en vertrou mekaar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Om die rol te vertolk van \u201c\u2019n lewende ikoon\u201d is vir Hopkins \u2019n groot uitdaging. \u201cEk het regter Albie Sachs by drie geleenthede ontmoet terwyl ek vir hierdie teaterstuk voorberei het, en elke keer was ek getref deur sy erns \u00e9n sy ligtheid van hart. Dat hy albei met so \u2019n o\u00ebnskynlike gemak dra, is merkwaardig.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"958\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n-1024x958.jpg\" alt=\"Hopkins en Fiona Ramsay.\" class=\"wp-image-315836\" style=\"width:778px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n-1024x958.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n-768x719.jpg 768w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n-1536x1437.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n-1320x1235.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n-600x561.jpg 600w, https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/diepapier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/687692978_1550196817110224_6154799313488859864_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hopkins en Fiona Ramsay. Foto: Theatre on the Square.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter <\/em>beskryf Sachs hoe hy, omring deur die skoonheid van rose in Regent Park in Londen, gekonfronteer word met die verminking van sy regterarm. \u201cDie verwysing na die rose is in die toneelstuk opgeneem,\u201d s\u00ea Hopkins, \u201cas deel van sy besluit om nie \u2019n prostese te dra nie, maar om trots en gemaklik in sy eie vel te wees, sonder om voor te gee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDit is emblematies, nie net van die man self en sy morele krag nie, maar van die opofferings van so baie in die bevrydingstryd, wat deel gevorm het van Albie Sachs se wese dwarsdeur sy lewe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En so beliggaam <em>Albie Sachs, Fathers, Sons, and Soft Vengeance<\/em> \u2019n diep pragmatiese optimisme wat gewortel is in die omskakeling van negatiewe ervarings in positiewe aksie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oorlewing beskou Sachs as \u2019n oorwinning en sy bydrae tot Suid-Afrika se demokrasie as \u201csagte wraak\u201d is gewortel in die geloof dat die mensdom die probleme wat hy skep, kan oplos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Albie Sachs, Fathers, Sons, and Soft Vengeance<\/em> is in Theatre on the Square te sien van 5 tot 24 Mei. Bespreek by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webtickets.co.za\/v2\/event.aspx?itemid=1592210160\">www.webtickets.co.za<\/a>. Kaartjies kos R200 en R220.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEk moet erken ek is \u2019n optimis,\u201d het Albie Sachs, \u2019n voormalige regter van die konstitusionele hof en mede-argitek van Suid-Afrika se Grondwet, \u2019n paar jaar gelede in \u2019n voordrag in Stellenbosch ges\u00ea. \u201cMiskien selfs \u2019n ongeneeslike optimis,\u201d het hy bygevoeg. \u201cAlles in die land is nie pluis nie, en dit is nie die samelewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":315833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"author_byline":"Johan 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