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Simphiwe Dana

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Simphiwe Dana is nobody’s darling

Siphokazi Magadla by Siphokazi Magadla 23 September 201330 September 2013

“Part of what makes Simphiwe Dana so compelling for me, part of why I had to write this book, is that she is almost impossible to govern,” writes Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola in her latest book, A renegade called Simphiwe. This book is a “creative-intellectual portrait” of the public (and private) life of the musician. […]

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They say government-sponsored artists are traitors

Sandile Memela by Sandile Memela 1 February 20138 February 2013

I believe celebrated struggle poet and ANC veteran Mongane Wally Serote will be in a lot of trouble for saying “the white Western voice dominates discourse in this country while the African voice is muted”. He was a panellist on a Big Debate discussion about artists and whether they have sold out or have we […]

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