More an insecure platform for Mr. [Mbongeni] Ngema's didacticism than a play with a life of its own, Township Fever is agit-propped with polemical sloganeering.

Then gently uprode Gawain, And he spurred not his steed to gallop, nor conflict nor strife he sought […]

Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, / Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,

It looks well in a picter, I've heerd say; but there an't weather in picters, and maybe 'tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.