Zakes Mda
@zakesmda.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Academic, Professional Dabbler
In case you’re at Shanghai Normal University or environs, you’re welcome
June 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In case you’re at Shanghai Normal University or environs, you’re welcome
Thank you for your kind words. By my count it’s more than twenty plays.
May 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Thank you for your kind words. By my count it’s more than twenty plays.
Oh my goodness, the Chinese are so naughty. They now call POTUS Comrade Trump because everything he does advances China and undermines the USA. They say he must be a secret member of their Communist Party. They also call him the Builder of the Nation, and that nation, of course, is China!
April 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Oh my goodness, the Chinese are so naughty. They now call POTUS Comrade Trump because everything he does advances China and undermines the USA. They say he must be a secret member of their Communist Party. They also call him the Builder of the Nation, and that nation, of course, is China!
According to Grok3 Elon Musk is the biggest disinformation spreader on X
March 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
According to Grok3 Elon Musk is the biggest disinformation spreader on X
Itumeleng Mahabane, who has lived in the USA for many years, says, “The problem with South Africa is that we have the kind of freedom people in the US think they have, and it makes us recklessly naive.” As a South African academic/ artist who has lived in the USA for 44 yrs I agree with him in toto.
March 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Itumeleng Mahabane, who has lived in the USA for many years, says, “The problem with South Africa is that we have the kind of freedom people in the US think they have, and it makes us recklessly naive.” As a South African academic/ artist who has lived in the USA for 44 yrs I agree with him in toto.
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Tribute to Athol Fugard
Tribute to Athol Fugard
Tributes to honour legendary playwright Athol Fugard
YouTube video by Newzroom Afrika
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March 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Tribute to Athol Fugard
Tribute to Athol Fugard
The last time I visited Athol Fugard in Stellenbosch (seen here with his wife Dr Paula Fourie) we joked about death and laughed at it. Yesterday it took him. He will be missed, but he lives forever in his works.
March 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The last time I visited Athol Fugard in Stellenbosch (seen here with his wife Dr Paula Fourie) we joked about death and laughed at it. Yesterday it took him. He will be missed, but he lives forever in his works.
“There’s the biggest mall that’s coming to Johannesburg,” says Panyaza Lesufi with aplomb. “Twenty-four thousand square meters. That’s the BRICS investment we managed to get.” Yep! We continue to build palaces of consumption, and none of production.
March 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
“There’s the biggest mall that’s coming to Johannesburg,” says Panyaza Lesufi with aplomb. “Twenty-four thousand square meters. That’s the BRICS investment we managed to get.” Yep! We continue to build palaces of consumption, and none of production.
Imagine him with 34 criminal convictions (equivalent of felonies in the USA) and yet allowed to run for parliament and then elected president! And many many more anti-democratic anomalies! Imagine! Imagine!
For one thing, the USA would not have an imperial presidency as they have now. Imagine Cyril issuing executive orders left and right and centre like an emperor of the realm, which must be obeyed however stupid they are. Imagine our Constitutional Court ruling he cannot be charged with any crime.
“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s”
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
February 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Imagine him with 34 criminal convictions (equivalent of felonies in the USA) and yet allowed to run for parliament and then elected president! And many many more anti-democratic anomalies! Imagine! Imagine!
For one thing, the USA would not have an imperial presidency as they have now. Imagine Cyril issuing executive orders left and right and centre like an emperor of the realm, which must be obeyed however stupid they are. Imagine our Constitutional Court ruling he cannot be charged with any crime.
“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s”
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
February 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For one thing, the USA would not have an imperial presidency as they have now. Imagine Cyril issuing executive orders left and right and centre like an emperor of the realm, which must be obeyed however stupid they are. Imagine our Constitutional Court ruling he cannot be charged with any crime.
“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s”
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
February 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s”
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Thanks so much for sharing @poptartology.bsky.social @africa.theconversation.com
Once again literature often leads the way in describing the terrors & dangers of #ZamaZama life in South Africa/Lesotho @zakesmda.bsky.social
#Stillfontein #SouthAfrica
#Marikana
#NeverAgain
#ANC #Zuma #Ramaphosa
Once again literature often leads the way in describing the terrors & dangers of #ZamaZama life in South Africa/Lesotho @zakesmda.bsky.social
#Stillfontein #SouthAfrica
#Marikana
#NeverAgain
#ANC #Zuma #Ramaphosa
Illegal mining in South Africa is one of the themes in @zakesmda.bsky.social's brilliant novel Wayfarers' Hymns. Here's a review by @lizzyattree.bsky.social -> theconversation.com/book-review-... via @africa.theconversation.com #Stillfontein
Book review: Zakes Mda’s subversive take on Lesotho’s traditions
Set in the music wars of Lesotho, the new novel by the South African author tells of a wandering minstrel whose hit song leads to his downfall.
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January 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Thanks so much for sharing @poptartology.bsky.social @africa.theconversation.com
Once again literature often leads the way in describing the terrors & dangers of #ZamaZama life in South Africa/Lesotho @zakesmda.bsky.social
#Stillfontein #SouthAfrica
#Marikana
#NeverAgain
#ANC #Zuma #Ramaphosa
Once again literature often leads the way in describing the terrors & dangers of #ZamaZama life in South Africa/Lesotho @zakesmda.bsky.social
#Stillfontein #SouthAfrica
#Marikana
#NeverAgain
#ANC #Zuma #Ramaphosa
Zakes Mda on his latest novel, set in Lesotho’s musical gang wars
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Zakes Mda on his latest novel, set in Lesotho’s musical gang wars
Lesotho’s famo music is known for the use of accordions - and gang violence. In Wayfarers’ Hymns, Zakes Mda explores this tradition.
theconversation.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Zakes Mda on his latest novel, set in Lesotho’s musical gang wars
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American jurisprudence is a fine kettle of fish. “Unconditional discharge” is a conviction! It means that @realDonaldTrump carries the mark of a felon, but nothing else happens to Felon Trump. He lives happily ever after.
January 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
American jurisprudence is a fine kettle of fish. “Unconditional discharge” is a conviction! It means that @realDonaldTrump carries the mark of a felon, but nothing else happens to Felon Trump. He lives happily ever after.
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Bua!
Elon Musk: I know you believe that Donald Trump made you king of the world, hence your issuing directives to other countries, including BRICS, imperial UK and Germany. But I hate to tell you the truth, Boykie, yours is a papier-mâché crown; the Don does not own the world.
January 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Bua!
Elon Musk: I know you believe that Donald Trump made you king of the world, hence your issuing directives to other countries, including BRICS, imperial UK and Germany. But I hate to tell you the truth, Boykie, yours is a papier-mâché crown; the Don does not own the world.
January 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Elon Musk: I know you believe that Donald Trump made you king of the world, hence your issuing directives to other countries, including BRICS, imperial UK and Germany. But I hate to tell you the truth, Boykie, yours is a papier-mâché crown; the Don does not own the world.
What’s the problem? Cenk Uygur is merely returning to his rightwing roots.
December 29, 2024 at 10:22 AM
What’s the problem? Cenk Uygur is merely returning to his rightwing roots.
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Its like the climate crisis/greenhouse effect, first proposed in 1824, quantified in 1896, by the 1970s scientists explicitly telling us there was a problem. Yet apart from J.G Ballard ('60s) and a few others we only started writing about it in fiction way after it was well underway already.
December 19, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Its like the climate crisis/greenhouse effect, first proposed in 1824, quantified in 1896, by the 1970s scientists explicitly telling us there was a problem. Yet apart from J.G Ballard ('60s) and a few others we only started writing about it in fiction way after it was well underway already.
These things were not really coming. In 1995 they had already started happening
December 19, 2024 at 1:35 PM
These things were not really coming. In 1995 they had already started happening
A step in the right direction. I have kids in New Jersey. One day I may have grandkids there.
NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. just struck a blow against banning books
It's called the "Freedom to Read Act."
www.nj.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:00 AM
A step in the right direction. I have kids in New Jersey. One day I may have grandkids there.
Yes. And more.
Fuck Joe Manchin.
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Yes. And more.