Zakes Mda
@zakesmda.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Academic, Professional Dabbler
The Orange Dick-tator will get a heart attack, and then pile more tariffs on South Africa goods, and then invade the country (purportedly to stop the genocide of White Afrikaners), when he learns that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to a South African - particularly of a much darker hue.
Fantastic, can't wait to see it @zakesmda.bsky.social!
South African Novelist Zakes Mda and Michael Bronner Co-write a $16 Million Film on Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela
Cynthia Erivo, Thabo Rametsi and Guy Pearce have joined the cast of The Road Home, a musical drama about South African jazz legends Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba and Hugh Masekela and their Apartheid-er...
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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.
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
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.
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.
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!
Zakes Mda@zakesmda.bsky.social · 2y agoFor 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.
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.
Zakes Mda@zakesmda.bsky.social · 2y ago“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s” -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s” -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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
Charl Blignaut@poptartology.bsky.social · 2y agoIllegal 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
Zakes Mda on his latest novel, set in Lesotho’s musical gang wars theconversation.com/zakes-mda-on...
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.
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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.
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.
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
Common Sense@cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 2y agoSome folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
A step in the right direction. I have kids in New Jersey. One day I may have grandkids there.
The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · 2y agoNJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians. www.nj.com/politics/202...
Seneca the Younger (4 BCE to 65 CE), the stoic philosopher, playwright and statesman of Rome, supposedly made the apt observation: “Religion is regarded by the common people [some quote him as saying by “the poor”] as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
Mr Morgan is prone to uttering the darnedest of things.
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2y agoPiers Morgan: “50 years ago, before Roe came in, it wasn't a federal law. So why are you so exercised about it?" BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“
