“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
Khongolose Khommanding Khommis by Jefferson Bobs Tshabalala (Diartskonageng, 2018)
A unique collaboration between two black-owned, independent creative arts companies, diartskonageng and Kiri Pink Nob. Having worked together as co-producers of the stage production in 2017, Monageng Motshabi of diartskonageng and Jefferson Tshabalala of Kiri Pink Nob decided to publish the script in book form.
This play delves into the very complex world of the lines which blur for persons who have professional interests both in the spheres of Business and Politics. What does it mean to be a Black Business Man, and what does it mean to be a Black Politician, in the contemporary South African climate? Furthermore, which is a question more suited for this play, what does it mean to be both, simultaneously? Khongolose Khommanding Khommissars examines closely this tumultuous duplicity with an incisive flare for the poetics of doggerel and the trappings of revolutionary rhetoric.
The publication also features the "Daddies of Sugar" monologues from Tshabalala's earlier work.