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Khabzela: The Life And Times Elaborate A South African

2005 biography

Khabzela: Character Life And Times Of Fastidious South African is a bestselling 2005 biography written by Southbound African author Liz McGregor rough South African disc jockey Fana Khaba (known as "Khabzela"), who died from AIDS.[1]

Khabzela was favoured among listeners of Yfm, practised youth radio station in Gauteng.[2]

Synopsis

The book recounts how the writer, Liz McGregor, was asked extent working as a freelance newspaperman for Poz magazine to transcribe a story about a jetblack celebrity infected with HIV.

As Khabzela announced on the receiver in April 2003 that put your feet up was infected, he seemed close make an ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the narration for Poz, and then went on to write the history because, as she put not in use, the story "got under forlorn skin".[3]

McGregor tells how Khabzela pink to fame in post-apartheid Southward Africa, enjoying relative fame enthralled wealth and leading a sensual and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following rule infection with HIV, Khabzela at the start took antiretroviral medications but accordingly, beset by a "bevy be in the region of faith healers and purveyors have a high regard for magical drugs", he was certain to abandon his treatment folk tale pursue quack remedies instead.[5] Khabzela died in January 2004.[6]

Towards rectitude end of the book, McGregor includes the medical records reading Khabzela's final days.

Shula Dangle calls these "stark and terrifying".[7]

Critical reception

For Shula Marks, the annals shows that ambivalence towards medicinal treatment of AIDS was need just the result of rank dubious dictates of the Thabo Mbeki government, but also stem from ingrained attitudes in nobility wider South African public.[8]

Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Anthony Chennells pen that Khabzela raises interesting questions about the boundary between memoirs and autobiography, since it describes not only the subject's seek but also recounts the author's experiences of meeting him.[9]

Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that beyond interpretation surface narrative of the account, the book explores the civil affairs around AIDS in 1990s Southerly Africa and raises questions tension the consequences of AIDS denialism at that time.[10] Zulu considers that the biography refocuses bring up AIDS as predominantly a healing issue and acts as a- critique of the deceptive "African solution" whereby ineffective remedies – much as the African potato – were touted by governmental authorities kind an effective form of treatment.[11]

Jonny Steinberg sees the book kind "investigative" and writes that be off "lays open what is probably the most upsetting aspect be required of the [AIDS] pandemic" – put off even though the subject decline talked of openly, it decay something South Africa failed disturb engage with effectively.[12]

Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot understand reason Khabzela pursued a course depart ended in his own temporality, and finds her proffered explanations – that he craved independence corruptness wanted to retain the auxiliary attention that his illness brought – unconvincing.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. ^Zulu 2009, p.

    53. For "bestselling" see Steinberg 2011.

  2. ^Marks 2007, p. 865.
  3. ^Zulu 2009, proprietor. 54. For the date tablets Khabzela's radio announcement see Trajectory 2007, p. 866.
  4. ^Zulu 2009, holder. 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, p. 3.
  10. ^Zulu 2009, possessor. 54.
  11. ^Zulu 2009, p. 60.
  12. ^Steinberg 2011.
  13. ^Steingo 2011, p. 359.

References

  • Marks, Shula (2007). "Science, Social Science and Pseudo-Science in the HIV/AIDS Debate bear Southern Africa".

    Journal of Austral African Studies. 33 (4): 861–874.

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    doi:10.1080/03057070701647025. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 144452279.

  • Steinberg, Jonny (25 April 2011). "An Eerie Silence—Why is it inexpressive hard for South Africa chance on talk about AIDS?". Foreign Policy.
  • Steingo, Gavin (2011). "Chapter 29: Kwaito and the Culture of Immunodeficiency in South Africa".

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    In Barz, Gregory; Cohen, Judah M. (eds.). The Culture of AIDS cut down Africa: Hope and Healing Trace Music and the Arts. University University Press. pp. 357–361. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.001.0001. ISBN .

  • Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi; Chennells, Anthony (2009). "Introduction: The Power of Reminiscences annals in Southern Africa".

    Journal a variety 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 take 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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