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Zakes Mda on his new book, ‘The Zulus of New York’

[intro]In this novel, Mda tells the story of a group of Zulus who were sent to England and later the United States in the 1880S to perform as ‘human curiosities’ or ‘freak shows’ in his popular circus.[/intro] “My mission is to tell a good story. If I don’t make my...

Nurene Jassiem

Nurene is a media and communications professional who cut her teeth as a journalist at the tender age of 15 at a local community radio station. Since graduating from the then Peninsula Technikon (now Cape Peninsula University of Technology) in 2004, she has worked in...

Tanya Lupuwana

Tanya Lupuwana is an aspiring journalist and filmmaker. Born in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape and raised in Kimberley in the Northern Cape, 22 year-old Tanya has always had a passion for the media industry. She studied journalism at the University of The Free...

Nthabiseng Mokoena

Nthabiseng Mokoena was born in the Vaal Triangle. She is currently studying Media and Journalism at the University of the Free State with hopes of developing as an English Literature Academic while waiting for the next Game of Thrones book.

Shirley Brooks

Shirley Brooks hails from Durban and attended university in Pietermaritzburg, where she grew to political consciousness during the late apartheid period. After leaving the country to study at Queen’s University in Canada, she returned to South Africa in the...