RESONANCE ARCHIVE FESTIVAL: STONEY: THE ONE AND ONLY (1983)

The Resonance Archive Festival returns from 25 to 29 November 2026, in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Qonce, under the theme Counter-narratives of Commemoration. Through film, performance and conversation, the festival asks who writes those versions of the past, whose stories they leave out, and what becomes possible when those stories are told on their own terms. At the centre of the festival are rare South African films that have been tracked down in forgotten archives and digitised so audiences can see them again, some for the first time.

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STONEY: THE ONE AND ONLY

Dir. Rod Hay · Mirage Films · 1h30min

A tongue-in-cheek comedy about a larger-than-life boxing hero. Two township thugs are hunting down Oupa Sitholi, a sly old boxing promoter with a gambling problem, while a young boxer fights his way to the top, earning the name Stoney only once he gets there. The film was made for R250,000 with backing from Stoney Ginger Beer, largely for Black audiences and was even accompanied by a book of the same title.