South Africa: South Africa's TV Actors Have Every Reason to Demand a Better Deal

[The Conversation Africa] Every few months there's a fresh outcry from South African actors complaining about exploitative working conditions in the film and television industry. Last year cast and crew were up in arms about an actor who needlessly fell to his death from a waterfall during a film shoot. Most recently award-winning actress Vatiswa Ndara penned an angry open letter to the country's arts and sports minister. Among the issues she raised were that actors are underpaid, particularly given the excessive workload being pla