“I am not writing this article. A writer cannot write about another writer!” Zukiswa Wanner says to me. “No, you must!
Who else is going to write about writers and their work?” I shoot back. “No, not happening. A writer’s work should speak for itself!” I don’t know whether newspapers publish emojis but if they did, imagine the yellow grinning face wearing sunglasses right here.
That’s the mood. My job is simply to lay the preamble before handing over my pen. I mean keyboard.
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Two birthdays. Two remarkable women. Two generations.
More authors born in 1976. All in one courtyard. 10 August 2026.
Public holiday. Book Capital Circle in Melville. The cause: ’76 INKED!
A one-day Women’s Month literary festival. All born in 1976: Nozizwe Jele, the author ofHappiness is a Four-Letter Word, will open the day with her It Starts with a Word session; a practical workshop on writing, editing and publishing. Kagiso Lesego Molope is set to host Staged: Mothers of the Nation, Daughters of No-one, bringing together powerful conversations on identity, belonging and inheritance.
Bulelwa Mabasa will lead Black Women and Land: When Do We Get It? Angela Makholwa will take audiences into worlds where crime fiction meets screen storytelling with Crimes to Edit, Films to Make. , will open the day with her It Starts with a Word session; a practical workshop on writing, editing and publishing.
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