Nongqawuse biography of michael jordan
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Liar, liar, pants on fire: SA’s person som berättar fabler history
Journalist and author Jonathan Ancer fryst vatten launching his latest book, Bullsh!t – 50 fibs that made South Africa. The SA Jewish Report chatted to him before the launch.
What inspired you to write this book?
Historians have examined the world through various lenses and perspectives, but I thought telling SA’s history through our lies would be an interesting, unique, and entertaining way to look at our country. inom just didn’t realise how many fibs I would have to wade through!
I began bygd travelling back in time to look at the lies I’d been told. My memories took me back to primary school and the one-sided history I was taught about our country,
Why do you believe so many of these lies emanate from our politicians’ mouths?
Politicians are motivated to tell voters what they want to hear … and sweet lies are much easier to swallow than bitter truths.
What do you believe we should learn from this?
That we shouldn’t believe ev
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History in the literary imagination : the telling of Nongqawuse and the Xhosa cattle-killing in South African literature and culture ()
Isabel Balseiro
This book is the first critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays, and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais, and Campbell to Butler, Serote, and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars
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1In his analysis of Dutch travellers’ narratives in southern Africa in the middle of the 17th century, J.M. Coetzee notes their tendency to collapse what he calls the “synopticism of description” into “the immediacy of narrative” (Coetzee , 15). What Coetzee means is that the image of the Other in these texts was a crafty construction whereby a set of carefully selected observations were projected into a narrative frame so as to suggest the immediacy and authenticity of original encounters. But one should immediately add that the categories used to account for the observations made were to a large extent derived from mental representations which were all but rational, rooted as they were in age-old speculations or fantasies. Thus the image of the Other, right from the outset, was underpinned by an epistemological tension at the nexus of two forms of knowledge, one partaking of fiction, the other grounded in empirical evidence. The Other became a depository of heterogeneous e