gillian slovo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. gillian, you have been writing for many decades, but your recent work, particularly your plays, have focused not so much on your own authorial voice, your imagination, they focused on real people s real stories. i just wonder if you re getting sick of making things up. i m not, actually, because, you know, there s part of me that wants to go back to my desk to be on my own, to make stuff up, but i ve really got a lot from working in the theatre and from the collaboration that comes, not only from the crew and the directors and the actors, but actually the collaboration that comes from the people i ve interviewed. and finding a way to magnify their voice onstage has been actually really a wonderful piece of work for me. i ve really learnt a lot about it, and it also teaches you about dialogue when you want to go back to drama, to writing fiction. i mean, your most recent play, which has been on in the uk and indeed on in new york
gillian slovo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. gillian, you have been writing for many decades, but your recent work, particularly your plays, have focused not so much on your own authorial voice, your imagination, they focused on real people s real stories. ijust wonder if you re getting sick of making things up. i m not, actually, because, you know, there s part of me that wants to go back to my desk to be on my own, to make stuff up, but i ve really got a lot from working in the theatre and from the collaboration that comes not only from the crew and the directors and the actors, but actually the collaboration that comes from the people i ve interviewed. and finding a way to magnify their voice onstage has been actually really a wonderful piece of work for me. i ve really learnt a lot about it, and it also teaches you about dialogue when you want to go back to drama, to writing fiction. i mean, your most recent play, which has been on in the uk and indeed on in new york
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hello, i m anna.. anna foster. south africa s governing party has two weeks to form a coalition, after losing its outright majority for the first time in 30 years. with virtually all the votes now counted from wednesday s election, the anc stands at around 40% a sharp drop from almost 58% in 2019. the anc say the result has been a wake up call for the party. the anc has accepted the result and, as the anc, what is foremost now in our mind are two things. one is the fact that there was a clear protest from our people. our people are saying, we love the anc, but the anc must self correct. we have already started that programme of organisational renewal. i think we need to fast track that. we must no longer only speak about acting against corruption, we must be seen as doing that. we must be seen as giving our people the service. that is the message that our people have said to us and it s a message we have received loud and clear. let s go live to our correspondent cath