Eric Miyeni
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle
Character: Adult Darryl
A Black South African lives in Toronto with his Canadian wife in 1989. His fears of being stalked by South African secret police, force him to reflect back on his life growing up under apartheid....
Movie Credits
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Character: The father
Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa....
Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Rape Me!
Character:
The film follows three rapists in South Africa, who live in a rape culture. Sexual, verbal, political, moral and psychological rape is common practice....
Cry, the Beloved Country
Character: Absolom Kumalo
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city....
Dangerous Ground
Character: Steven Madlazi (as Eric 'Waku' Miyeni)
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men....
Bopha!
Character: Bantebe
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty....