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Today’s Child
Elmo and Damon
Sharon (who operates Kami’s arm), Kami and Nozizwe
Zuzu and Tumi
Nyanga, Zikwe and Reshoketswe (who operates Zikwe’s arm) Moshe and Lindani
that I puppeteer Zuzu! I had to show her have their own stories about watching and the messages the characters are
photos of myself with Zuzu, do Zuzu’s Takalani Sesame, they’re inevitably putting across on screen.”
giggle, speak in her voice and even intrigued when they find out he’s a
sing a song. Needless to say, I ended up puppeteer. “They always want to know HELPING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL
performing for the whole flight!” how we do it. That tells me that we’re NEEDS
Nyanga Tshabalala, whose character doing something right – because all For Lindani Nkosi, better known
is Zikwe, says that even if people don’t children and adults believe in the magic as Moshe, the collaborations with
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