Zakes Mda Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/zakes-mda/ Arts and African History Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:33:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Zanemvula Kizito Mda https://consciousness.co.za/zanemvula-kizito-mda/ https://consciousness.co.za/zanemvula-kizito-mda/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:33:13 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13584 Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a school teacher, who later became a lawyer. His father was a founding member and later became the President of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in 1947. In the [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/zanemvula-kizito-mda/feed/ 0 Sometimes there is a Void – Zakes Mda https://consciousness.co.za/sometimes-there-is-a-void-zakes-mda/ https://consciousness.co.za/sometimes-there-is-a-void-zakes-mda/#respond Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:29:47 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6762 A review by Smart M. Maqubela Reading Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni (popularly known as Zakes) Mda’s novels, one can’t help but notice that they are based in an historical setting. His Heart of Redness was set against the backdrop of the Nonqgawuse catastrophic prophesy that Afrikans must kill all their cattle and thereafter the dead will [...]

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