IT FELT felt as if he was on a roundabout that was spinning faster and faster. As he stood on stage at the Joburg Theatre, the veteran actor was aware his castmates were waiting for him to deliver his lines but he felt so dizzy he couldn’t speak.
All John Kani wanted to do was sit down and hope the weird whirling sensation would stop. Thankfully at some point it did.
But every time he started speaking the words he’d committed to memory for his role as Troy Maxson in a production of the American play Fences, the world started spinning again.
Eventually the 79-year-old acting icon decided he had to get it checked
