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Jan 15, 2025 | 
everand.com | Zukiswa Wanner |Maaza Mengiste
National Archives UK / Wikimedia Commons Guest editor’s introduction:“Zukiswa Wanner’s story drops us into an off-kilter, unstable world, and the voice that guides us through—wise, witty and unflinching—refuses to let us look away from the many consequences of racism and colonialism. This is the world that violence creates and at the center is a young girl, Paulina, trying her best to hold on to all that matters.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
guernicamag.com | Zukiswa Wanner |Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste Maaza Mengiste is the author of the novel, The Shadow King, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. Her story, “Dust, Ash, Flight,” was awarded a 2021 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Her books have been translated into several languages.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Zukiswa Wanner |William Shoki |Ed Pavlic
Set in a hauntingly plausible future, where Israel has marked a century of Palestinian occupation, Thaer Husien’s debut novel, Beside the Sickle Moon: A Palestinian Story, opens with a poetic, sonically disorienting line: “I hear the rhythmic pin-drop of muffled revenge from tunnels being dug 20 meters beneath my feet.” This is the world of Laeth Muhammad Awad, a convenience store owner in a town just outside Ramallah.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
news24.com | Zukiswa Wanner
The writer says to avoid Day Zero we must become active in reporting water leaks (Son) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Benoit Challand |Abby Merrick |Hamit Bozarslan |Zukiswa Wanner
Destroyed hospital in Gaza (2014) | mehmet ali poyraz / ShutterstockGideon Levy, an award-winning journalist for the liberal Israeli English-language daily Haaretz, has been covering the Palestinian occupied territories since the late 1980s.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
mg.co.za | Zukiswa Wanner
Heck, if I had been Nelson, I probably would have just sung and betrayed them all the first week they had me hitting stones at the quarry in Robben Island. Like, yes. Call me shallow, but I do cherish my soft hands and good food and bubbles. Or a good whisky. So, ja. So, anyway, 1990. Daddy goes back to where the sanctions have been lifted, but he and my mother agree that we should stay in Zimbabwe because it’s all so uncertain even though Mandela is free.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Zukiswa Wanner
In Soweto, they voted early; by mid-afternoon, most polling stations were deserted. Not so elsewhere in southern Johannesburg where middle-class, middle-aged voters bet on empty polling stations in the late afternoon. My son, a first-time voter, my host and friend, Thoko, and I get up and choose to take it easy this election day. Aware of how important many of our compatriots deem this election, we decide we're going to vote later in the day after what we assume will be an rush to vote.
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May 31, 2024 | 
globaldiasporanews.com | Zukiswa Wanner
Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). By continuing to browse this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Translate » Source of original article: Zukiswa Wanner / African Arguments (africanarguments.org). The content of this article does not necessarily reflect the views or opinion of Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). To submit your press release: (https://www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com/pr).
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May 31, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Zukiswa Wanner
My son, a first-time voter, my host and friend, Thoko, and I get up and choose to take it easy this election day. Aware of how important many of our compatriots deem this election, we decide we’re going to vote later in the day after what we assume will be an rush to vote. After a relaxed breakfast, my son and I get into an Uber to Soweto where he registered.
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May 29, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Zukiswa Wanner
On Instagram on 18 May, a South African woman living in London posted, “this is my third election while living in the UK and I have never seen this many people in line. It feels like 1994 again. Praying for our country’s future.” On the ground in South Africa, after the apathy of the past three election, there is an importance to these elections that has been lacking.
