Buhle Ngaba
Artistic Associate

Bhule Ngaba is a multi-award winning South African actor, writer and speaker. Her research and performance interests include developing new thought processes around the role of storytelling and creativity in unearthing and amplifying African women’s voices from the archive; to inspire new narratives and push the boundaries of performance. Currently, she is researching and curating The Southern Womens Archive; an extensive collection of photographs, personal letters, journals, books, essays, manuscripts, internal correspondence and minutes of women’s meetings from across the world inherited from her family and her great-aunt Ruth Mompati; one of the founding members of the Federation of South African Women established in 1954. Her first play, Swan Song, was written while in a residency at the Royal Shakespeare Company and since its premiere in 2018, Ngaba has won two Kanna Theatre Awards for the production including Best Upcoming Artist and the theatre production has received rave reviews and had sold out seasons at Suidooster Kunstefees (SA, 2021), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, 2022) and Basel Theater Festival (Switzerland, 2022). In 2018 Buhle was nominated for a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Leading Actress for her performance in What Remains; a play by acclaimed writer Nadia Davids and multi-award winning director Jay Pather.

In 2019, Ngaba was awarded the Rising Light award at the Mbokodo Awards for Women in the Arts.