Author: Feizel Mamdoo

Feizel Mamdoo is a filmmaker, writer, heritage, arts and culture worker and a communications practitioner. He was part of the first wave of post-apartheid Black filmmakers with the beginning of the end of apartheid in the early 1990s, ushering in new subject concerns, aesthetics and sensibilities. He had devoted himself in the 15 years before that to the struggle for democracy in South Africa. Feizel is a forerunner in establishing “creative documentary” as a genre in South Africa, with his feature documentary “What Happened to Mbuyisa?” in 1998. As a creative non-fiction writer, Feizel has been published in the Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick, City Press, News24, The Star and Oprah Magazine. [He has published academically in Cahiers d’études africaines (2018) and by the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection (2014). Feizel has wide interests in arts and culture, including community heritage reclamation. He was a founder of the award winning The Fietas Festival, a community cultural initiative to reclaim the heritage of his birthplace, Vrededorp/Pageview, that was destroyed by forced removals under the Group Areas Act of apartheid.]