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People would offer us tea and biscuits while we listened to their stories, No disrespect to my dad but in my head, selling insurance became the backup plan for my life if every other thing I was interested in failed.

— Kagiso Lediga

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When I began to find success as a creative, I upgraded my backup plan to working in advertising. I suppose if I a** out, I could always find work somewhere peddling ideas for selling toothpaste.

I know this is bad and will probably come back to haunt me. I don’t even know how I came across these films in the townships of Pretoria.

Looking back, I should have appreciated the training a bit more but at the time I thought it was s***, certainly not the Spike Lee stuff that I wanted.

With streamers, there has been a lot of trial and error and I commend Netflix because they have been groundbreaking in that regard,” he tells Al Jazeera via Zoom from New York.

At this time there had never really been a conversation going on between whites and Blacks so it was always this fun adrenalin rush to go into rooms full, of people who didn’t quite know if I was doing protest theatre or plain comedy. It would be awkward at first, but they would slowly get into it.

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