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PRESS: COMMISSION CONTINUA Comes to the Baxter in a Powerful Reckoning with South Africa’s Unfinished Truths
- May 27
- 2 min read
Baxter Theatre Centre
Tony Bonani Miyambo and Phala Ookeditse Phala from Kafka’s Ape fame, bring another striking theatrical production, COMMISSION CONTINUA, to the Baxter Masambe Theatre for a limited season from 2 to 13 June 2026.
Thirty years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this production offers a searing reflection on South Africa’s ongoing struggle for justice, accountability and meaningful change.
Having toured internationally to critical acclaim in London, Los Angeles, Germany and Singapore, COMMISSION CONTINUA continues to resonate globally as a bold interrogation of bureaucracy, memory and the politics of documentation.
At its centre is Bright Maluleke, an unassuming records clerk tasked with photocopying and archiving the findings of South Africa’s many commissions of inquiry. As he processes affidavit after affidavit, report after report, the distance between paper and lived reality begins to collapse. What begins as routine administration spirals into a visceral reckoning with the violence, grief and unanswered truths buried within the archive.
Performed in a stripped-down environment of a photocopier, microphone, and live loop station, COMMISSION CONTINUA transforms bureaucratic language into a haunting sonic and theatrical landscape.
Critics have praised the work as “a devastating one-hander… the culpability buried under mountains of paperwork,” describing it as “highly effective and emotionally charged… a cutting and intelligent critique,” and “an act of protest… calling out the broken system… performed with harrowing emotion.”
The production interrogates a central paradox of South African democracy: the meticulous recording of truth without the delivery of justice. It asks whether commissions of inquiry serve as instruments of accountability, or whether they risk becoming rituals of delay, endlessly producing paper while the country remains in crisis. COMMISSION CONTINUA is not simply a performance. It is an inquiry. A provocation. A demand.
The production runs at the Baxter Masambe Theatre from 2 to 13 June to 2026 at 8pm, with Saturday matinees at 3pm. Booking is now open at Webtickets online or at Pick n Pay stores.
For discounted school or group block bookings, fundraisers or charities, contact Mark Dobson 021 680 3972 or email him at mark.dobson@uct.ac.za. For further media information or interview requests, please contact Shireen Fisher on email shireen.fisher@uct.ac.za or call her on 021 680 3963, Tony Miyambo on 060 971 6449 or email Tembisakid@gmail.com.