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Katlego
Morobi
Biography
Katlego Morobi is a Master of Performing Arts Candidate at the Tshwane University of
Technology. Born and bred in Atteridgeville, Morobi’s upbringing in the townships has
shaped his way of storytelling that he credits his community for his love for the
academics. Finding his voice in the Arts, he focuses more on Ubuntu as an Afrocentric
Philosophical concept and applies it to his writing as a creative and scholar. He had
released his first screenplay as a writer in 2020 and debuted as an actor in 2025 His
research on Ubuntu as an African Philosophy is centred around his upbringing and his
passion for redefining and decolonising African concepts and he uses storytelling to
convey the message.
CODE: 3.21 1420
Deepening the Aesthetic of Ubuntu and the language origin, we take the concept to
the next level. CODE: 3.21 1420 tells the story of an endless que of people in a
government institution hoping to change the reality of their identities. This Absurd
Drama delves deeper into how the authority systems influence human behaviour. With
no character identity, the story describes the life of an absurd world where the citizens
make notice of how the system has identified them with numbers. The concept of
Ubuntu is applied in the harsh and inhumane ways the system subjected people,
making them difficult to remember them through their names and their backgrounds.
This illustrates the complexities of the lives of ordinary South Africans and how they
live in and with a system that subjects them to unhuman classification rather than just
a number. The play took an approach of utilising minimal props and costume to better
illustrate the idea of the world without people.