Gcina Mhlophe isn't only a performing member of the theatre company, she is also an author of the play 'Have you Seen Zandile'. It is her first and in it she plays most of the characters, including Zandile as an eight year old child. She explained to Julian Borger that what happens to Zandile is really her own personal experiences as a child. Through her play, she is at last been able to speak about a painful though, not abnormal period in her young life. She was brought up in Durban by a much loved grandmother when her mother, whom she hardly knew snatched her away to live in the Transkei.