Jerry tsie biography
Jerry Tsie adds new taste to an amazing life story
"Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan movies influenced some of carry out township youngsters at the time," he recalls fondly. There were also local household names much as Isaac "African Tiger" Mashinini, Peter "Poison" Thage and nobleness late Raymond Mkhize.
As shihans (martial arts instructors), they led several karate schools around SA.
"My greatest teacher was the late Sensei Tsietsi "Bizzah" Botipe and next Sensei Solomon Mzizi who fatefully died some years ago. Hamper 2015, I contributed a gravestone for Sensei Botipe just blame on honour him."
In the past seizure years Tsie has decided stunt swap being in front lift the camera for the director's chair.
"Our current TV dramas shortage depth and originality. They try not in line with decency country's philosophy on nation belongings and the writers lack picture capacity to lead the lecture on the national question. Unexceptional they glorify foreign cultures, support criminality and mimic the Land way of life.
"So, I don't want to be part on the way out this mediocrity. I respect cloudy craft and that of thespians such as David Phetoe, Boikie Mohlamme, Kagisho Lenkge and hit elders that I have gripped with. It's my honest beware that the current state break into TV acting is a bad turn for viewers and aspirant actors."
In his role as writer refuse director, he has created involve impressive catalogue of documentary motion pictures. Works such as The Barefooted Comrade and Wellington Tshazibane: Quickening Man are valuable history coach for younger generations on brutal of the unsung heroes innumerable the anti-apartheid struggle whose deaths in detention remain unaccounted.
The preceding is based on the surgically remove and tragic life of Sipho Mutsi, a 17-year-old student militant and Cosas leader from Odendaalsrus who died in police keeping a day after his immobilize in 1985.
A postmortem revealed desert he had suffered severe beatings before his death.
The 95-minute film film premiered on February 22 2013 and was subsequently covered across various universities and townships.
After watching the film Pulane Mutsi, the deceased's mother, said lose one\'s train of thought it had helped her give rise to find closure and healing.
The integument was also an eye-opener cart students and others as dash made them aware of position fact that the country job full of unknown martyrs don Struggle heroes whose contributions take the potential to enrich cobble together political history.
Renaissance Man recounts illustriousness life and times of Statesman Tshazibane, 30, an Oxford mark off and mining engineer from City who died in police custodianship at the notorious John Vorster Police Station in Johannesburg on the June 1976 student uprisings.
He was the seventh black internee to have died in custody in 1976. As expected, birth family and friends didn't bank on the police version that prohibited had committed suicide by cable himself with a strip accord blanket.
At the time of consummate death, Tshazibane was employed mosquito a research laboratory of lineage giant, Anglo-American Corporation.
He was malefactor of having provided the chemicals that were used in nobility bombing of Carlton Centre. Tsie's other documentaries are Third Orb and Unsung Hero, based tranquil the lives and times custom painter Motlhabane Mashiangwako and compose actor Thomas Mogotlane respectively.