As fate would have it, when veteran journalist Phil Molefe and his mates headed to the Market Theatre, to attend its first ever production to be on stage in 1976, they were prevented from proceeding from Soweto to Newtown by a police road block. Undeterred, they however made a second attempt to go there, and were successful.

Today Molefe is the Chairman of the Market Theatre Foundation Council, a body that is responsible for the stewardship of the institution through mainly two main aspects of the Market Theatre Foundation–policy formulation and strategy development.