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We all know writing doesn’t pay the bills. Unless of course you’re JK Rowling or John Grisham. And what if you’re writing novels in isiZulu? Author of six IsiZulu novels, MANDLA NDLOVU, says its impossible to be a full time writer in South Africa. He works as a police officer by day to make ends meet. He told MBALI ZWANE his story.
I was born in Pietermaritzburg and ten years after my birth, my father was killed during political violence amongst IsiZulu clans in Pietermaritzburg.
My mother was a domestic worker and had to raise three children with the little money she earned.
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22-year-old theatre director, writer and poet KOLEKA PUTUMA spoke to Mbali Zwane about her poem Water, and navigating being a black woman in the arts.
When I performed the poem for the first time at TEDxStellenbosch, the room was literally cold and silent. After the event, white folk were not happy and they were not reserved about expressing that to my face and to the organisers. After the event I posted a blog entry on my site about the experience and included the text of Water. The post received both negative and positive comments (mostly positive).
I was born in Port Elizabeth but raised in Cape Town by two badass, amazing parents. I am one of 8 children. I like listening more than talking. I am still learning all my clan names. I have performed poems in really cool and not-so-cool spaces. I get to be a playwright, and be somebody’s lover and friend, if I manage time properly. I am part time supernatural and part time human. I have the biggest cru
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Eldorado Park has become synonymous with drugs dens and gangsterism. Journalist MAXINE BECKET shares her experience of reporting in one of South Africa’s drug capitals with Mbali Zwane.
It pains me to know that a place I call home, is home to drug lords and notorious gangsters as well. There’s good happening in this community but it gets overshadowed by the bad things that happen. I try to balance my reporting as a community journalist because, despite the township being known as a drug capital, residents do take the initiative in tackling the drugs and gangsterism – a mushrooming parasite.
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