Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
by Rene on Mar 28th, 2008
The launch of Lindiwe Mabuza’s Footprints and Fingerprints, held at Xarra Books, was a glittering affair, attended by the Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor, and the former Speaker of Parliament, Frene Ginwala, amongst many other dignitaries.
Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo introduced her aunt, who is also known as Her Excellency, the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, and who keeps an office in South Africa House. She shared snippets of growing up under the tender loving care of a woman who enriched her own life greatly with stories and poems and humour, and made the connections for her nieces and nephews by explaining the family tree.
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by Rene on Mar 17th, 2008
Pan Macmillan, the Picador Africa imprint and Xarra Books take great pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Footprints and Fingerprints, a new collection of poetry by Her Excellency, the High Commissioner of South Africa in the United Kingdom, Lindiwe Mabuza.
This a powerful, engaging and moving collection that remembers South Africa’s painful past, and celebrates our exciting future.
Because of the nature of the event, your RSVP is essential if you wish to attend. We look forward to welcoming you to the launch.
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by Rene on Mar 13th, 2008
Footprints and Fingerprints by Lindiwe Mabuza is a collection of poems by a renowned South African – an activist, poet and diplomat who is known as Her Excellency at her office in South Africa House, London, where she is the country’s UK High Commissioner.
Her new book contains a wide selection of poems from a period of over thirty years, which explore the personal and political in equal measure. Mabuza firmly states her beliefs, intelligently parses the sensitivities of the struggle, takes issue with weak leaders and celebrates strong ones. She opens herself up and speaks of love in various modes, and her faith that love will “breed new life”.
This a powerful, engaging and moving collection that remembers South Africa’s painful past, and celebrates our exciting future.
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