Two actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’

On 11 February 1962, two actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from Johannesburg arrived in Cape Town to stage a three hour play on "Colour-bar". "The Blood Knot" was the much talked about play in South Africa which had a cast of only two characters, a White and African. The play was staged at Labia Theatre, Cape Town on the evening of 12 February 1962. Fugard's play "The Blood Knot" was commissioned by a British publisher Andrew Deutsch to be staged at London's West End in May 1962. "The Blood Knot" had a colour theme, set in a shack at a Port Elizabeth township. The play was about two brothers, one (Fugard) light-skinned and a second brother (Mokae) was dark-skinned. It was a second indigenous South African play to be staged in the West End following "Singpost to Murder" by Monte Doyle. His first play was "No Good Friday" followed by his first internationally successful play "The Blood Knot" which led to his passport being withdrawn by Apartheid government.