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Leading in the 21st Century: The Call for a New Type of African Leader – Tshilidzi Marwala
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Image: SABC NewsJon Qwelane will be laid to rest in Mafikeng this week.
If it were not self-restrictive, I would describe the late Jon Qwelane as a “doyen of black journalism”. But to do so would undermine his immense contribution to the advancement, protection and promotion of the craft.
Qwelane burst into journalism via back-door. A wordsmith of note, he was lurking in his hometown of Mafikeng in the North West, working as a clerk in the post office.
Initially contributing as a freelancer to the legendary Mafikeng Mail, he never stopped telling the story of how Oom Leslie Sehume played a major part in recruiting him to the mainstream media in Johannesburg.
Robert Jones Jr
There has been a great deal of hype around this novel, which tells the story of the forbidden union between Isiah and Samuel, two enslaved men who work on a plantation in the American Deep South. With deeply evocative lyricism that has been compared to Toni Morrison, this tale of intimacy and betrayal amid a backdrop of injustice will feel poignantly and painfully familiar to South African readers. Author Robert Jones Jr is the creator of Son of Baldwin, a social justice online community that pays tribute to author James Baldwin.
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