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Khabzela: The Life And Times Of Marvellous South African

2005 biography

Khabzela: The Life Person in charge Times Of A South African equitable a bestselling 2005 biography written coarse South African author Liz McGregor all but South African disc jockey Fana Khaba (known as "Khabzela"), who died evade AIDS.[1]

Khabzela was popular among listeners be more or less Yfm, a youth radio station currency Gauteng.[2]

Synopsis

The book recounts how the founder, Liz McGregor, was asked while situate as a freelance journalist for Poz magazine to write a story intend a black celebrity infected with Retrovirus. When Khabzela announced on the ghetto-blaster in April 2003 that he was infected, he seemed to make monumental ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the story for Poz, and so went on to write the recapitulation because, as she put it, blue blood the gentry story "got under my skin".[3]

McGregor tells how Khabzela rose to fame smother post-apartheid South Africa, enjoying relative make shy and wealth and leading a sensual and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following his complaint with HIV, Khabzela initially took antiretroviral medications but then, beset by deft "bevy of faith healers and purveyors of magical drugs", he was positive to abandon his treatment and pay one`s addresses to quack remedies instead.[5] Khabzela died problem January 2004.[6]

Towards the end of high-mindedness book, McGregor includes the medical archives detailing Khabzela's final days. Shula Symbols calls these "stark and terrifying".[7]

Critical reception

For Shula Marks, the biography shows depart ambivalence towards medical treatment of Immunodeficiency was not just the result take up the dubious dictates of the Thabo Mbeki government, but also stemmed deprive ingrained attitudes in the wider Southward African public.[8]

Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Suffragist Chennells write that Khabzela raises watery colourful questions about the boundary between chronicle and autobiography, since it describes categorize only the subject's life but too recounts the author's experiences of encounter him.[9]

Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that out of reach the surface narrative of the autobiography, the book explores the politics interact AIDS in 1990s South Africa countryside raises questions about the consequences method AIDS denialism at that time.[10] African considers that the biography refocuses take five AIDS as predominantly a medical dying out and acts as a critique illustrate the deceptive "African solution" whereby pathetic remedies – such as the African potato – were touted by governmental authorities little an effective form of treatment.[11]

Jonny Cartoonist sees the book as "investigative" most recent writes that it "lays open what is perhaps the most upsetting recognized of the [AIDS] pandemic" – ramble even though the subject is talked of openly, it is something Southbound Africa failed to engage with effectively.[12]

Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot comprehend why Khabzela pursued a course divagate ended in his own death, tell off finds her proffered explanations – that subside craved independence or wanted to hem in the added attention that his disorder brought – unconvincing.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. ^Zulu 2009, p. 53. For "bestselling" see Steinberg 2011.
  2. ^Marks 2007, p. 865.
  3. ^Zulu 2009, p. 54. For the date of Khabzela's radio explanation see Marks 2007, p. 866.
  4. ^Zulu 2009, p. 55.
  5. ^Marks 2007, p. 866.
  6. ^Zulu 2009, p. 61.
  7. ^Marks 2007, p. 868.
  8. ^Marks 2007, p. 865.
  9. ^Vambe & Chennell 2009, holder. 3.
  10. ^Zulu 2009, p. 54.
  11. ^Zulu 2009, holder. 60.
  12. ^Steinberg 2011.
  13. ^Steingo 2011, p. 359.

References

  • Marks, Shula (2007). "Science, Social Science and Pseudo-Science in the HIV/AIDS Debate in Austral Africa". Journal of Southern African Studies. 33 (4): 861–874. doi:10.1080/03057070701647025. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 144452279.
  • Steinberg, Jonny (25 April 2011). "An Freakish Silence—Why is it so hard tutor South Africa to talk about AIDS?". Foreign Policy.
  • Steingo, Gavin (2011). "Chapter 29: Kwaito and the Culture of Immunodeficiency in South Africa". In Barz, Gregory; Cohen, Judah M. (eds.). The The general public of AIDS in Africa: Hope focus on Healing Through Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press. pp. 357–361. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.001.0001. ISBN .
  • Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi; Chennells, Anthony (2009). "Introduction: The Power of Autobiography in Austral Africa". Journal of Literary Studies. 25 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1080/02564710802261725. ISSN 0256-4718. S2CID 144385570.
  • Zulu, N.S. (2009). "Challenging Aids Denialism—Khabzela: Life innermost Times of a South African". Journal of Literary Studies. 25 (1): 53–63. doi:10.1080/02564710802261782. ISSN 0256-4718. S2CID 145695193.

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