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Ms Selloane Mokuku
Lecturer in Applied Drama and Theatre
Selloane (Lalu) Mokuku is an Applied Theatre practitioner, a storyteller, playwright, facilitator, performer and transdisciplinary scholar. Her vision is to use the arts for justice and enhancement of botho (humanity). She holds an MA in Drama from Wits University and facilitates learning at Rhodes University, specialising in Applied Theatre as well as Theatre for Young Audiences. She has held leadership positions such as the coordination of second academic year and Acting HOD for the Drama Department in 2024 (Semester 1).
Her research interests are in collapsing the divide between the arts and mathematics, translanguaging, multilingualism and multiculturalism. Her recent publications include a case study published in the Embedding multilingualism in the curriculum using language as a resource for teaching and learning booklet (2024) by Centre For Higher Education Research Teaching & Learning (CHERTL), a co-authored chapter on Playback Theatre (in Sesotho) in a book called Boithuto, Ntlafatso, Polokelo Ntshetsopele ya Puo ya Sesotho: Malebela ka Ditsebi (2025) published by Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) at the University of Western Cape, as well as chapters in Call and Response: Artistic Inquiry Conversations (2025) by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
She has played a major role in editing and translating artistic and scholarly work such as Mlangeni Barret’s The Sparrow Who Became King of The Jungle (2024), the Rhodes University Drama 1 booklet into Sesotho (2025). She formed part of the team that translated Ng?g? wa Thiong'o’s Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Due for publication).
She directed a Sesotho play; Mosali Eo U ’Neileng Ena by ’Masechele Khaketla for the Market Theatre in 2016. She co-wrote an award winning play; Dipalo (2020) with Ginni manning. Her solo writing includes Hlapa Matsoho published in New UJ Plays 1 Compiled by UJ Arts & Culture (2023). Her unpublished play; Pen(t)s Down haha! won the 2023 Standard Bank Ovation Award (Bronze).
She is the artistic Director of MEQOQO Playback Theatre Collective (meqoqocollective_), a Drama For Life Alumni, Chairperson of ASSITEJ South Africa, Vice President (Africa) of ASSITEJ International and a member of South African Playback Theatre Association (SAPTA). Her self-published books include I Simply Cunt (2020) and a multilingual children’s book; QANQANA SENQA (2021). She performed her new children’s play SERURUBELE at the 16th Drama For Life Conference and Festival. The play will be published as a children’s story by Jacana Publishers in 2025.
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