Sizwe Bansi Is Dead Characters

Sizwe Bansi is a nervous yet hopeful Black South African man living under apartheid. He comes from a rural area around a small city, King William’s Town. Married to Nowetu, Sizwe believes being… read analysis of Sizwe Bansi/Robert Zwelinzima/Man

Styles is a young, fashionable, funny Black photographer in apartheid South Africa. He is casual friends with Buntu and takes photos of Sizwe Bansi when Sizwe, under the name Robert Zwelinzima, enters Styles’s studio wanting… read analysis of Styles

A native of Port Elizabeth, Buntu is well known for helping friends and acquaintances; he lets Sizwe Bansi stay at his house while Sizwe is looking for work in the city and avoiding the white… read analysis of Buntu

A white South African man who speaks with a heavy Afrikaans accent, Bradley supervised Styles when Styles worked at a Ford automobile plant under dirty, dangerous conditions. Bradley’s racist treatment of Styles—which Styles began to… read analysis of Bradley