Deliverance is the title of our brand new documentary about women. It'll be broadcast on on BBC radio 3 - Feb 28th. This is how it came about. Some years ago the artist Kate Daudy captivated me Read more [...]
Deliverance on BBC Radio 3
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Clear as Black and White. Two Reasons Exhibit B Must be Banned (or Not)
Sara Myers ( or Sar'z Myers) has petitioned to ban Exhibit-B from The Barbican because, she says, it is “an exercise in white racial privilege”. At time of writing Myers has 15,000 press-to-send-protestors: Read more [...]
The Greatest Poetry Slam on Earth
Grahamstown sits in a valley of mist in the Eastern Cape. A few weeks ago Lebo Mashile and I attended the first ever South African National Poetry Slam Final. We watched with widening eyes, mouths Read more [...]
Elinor Sisulu and the isiXhosa life writing workshop at Rhodes University
“Each person has a praise poem unique to their family and each praise poem traces back generation after generation” explained Elinor Sisulu. Elinor is turned towards me and the audience of inspired Read more [...]
South Africa My Heroine
I've been on stage in South Africa since the year after Mandela walked from Robben Island. Here are a few more recent pictures. On the left Desmond Tutu and me. Next is Johanesburg 2010 Hugh Masekella Read more [...]
Reconciliation. Truth. South Africa. Lies.
In South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission proponents of apartheid were absolved if they admitted their crimes. Murder, rape, torture, child abuse. The “Perpetrators of violence could Read more [...]
A living museum on a dying day
South Africa gave us much more than we gave it. Its exiled artists for example. In the mid 1960's The Last Poets were named from a poem by Keorapetse_Kgositsile an exile in NY who atteneded the Read more [...]
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South African handshake with The Queen.
Southbank Celebrates Mandela’s Birthday.
Leading writers, poets, musicians, performers and spoken word artists photographed on Wednesday 18 September, ahead of a sold out event at Southbank Centre in Nelson Mandela’s honour, where they read Read more [...]