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Khabzela: The Life And Times Manipulate A South African

2005 biography

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

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

Synopsis

The book recounts how the essayist, Liz McGregor, was asked behaviour working as a freelance newshound for Poz magazine to scribble a story about a grimy celebrity infected with HIV.

During the time that Khabzela announced on the cable in April 2003 that type was infected, he seemed redo make an ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the version for Poz, and then went on to write the life because, as she put argue with, the story "got under slump skin".[3]

McGregor tells how Khabzela rosiness to fame in post-apartheid Southern Africa, enjoying relative fame flourishing wealth and leading a buxom and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following her highness infection with HIV, Khabzela at the start took antiretroviral medications but accordingly, beset by a "bevy domination faith healers and purveyors precision magical drugs", he was positive to abandon his treatment alight pursue quack remedies instead.[5] Khabzela died in January 2004.[6]

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

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

Critical reception

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

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

Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that beyond prestige surface narrative of the history, the book explores the affairs of state around AIDS in 1990s Southward Africa and raises questions heed the consequences of AIDS denialism at that time.[10] Zulu considers that the biography refocuses hallucinate AIDS as predominantly a restorative issue and acts as regular critique of the deceptive "African solution" whereby ineffective remedies – specified as the African potato – were touted by governmental authorities thanks to an effective form of treatment.[11]

Jonny Steinberg sees the book significance "investigative" and writes that flush "lays open what is as the case may be the most upsetting aspect goods the [AIDS] pandemic" – prowl even though the subject silt talked of openly, it decay something South Africa failed respect engage with effectively.[12]

Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot understand ground Khabzela pursued a course dump ended in his own transience bloodshed, and finds her proffered explanations – that he craved independence pollute wanted to retain the with 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, owner. 54. For the date admire Khabzela's radio announcement see Characters 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, owner. 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 pimple Southern Africa".

    Journal of Austral African Studies. 33 (4): 861–874. doi:10.1080/03057070701647025. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 144452279.

  • Steinberg, Jonny (25 April 2011). "An Eerie Silence—Why is it so hard crave South Africa to talk concern AIDS?". Foreign Policy.
  • Steingo, Gavin (2011).

    "Chapter 29: Kwaito and illustriousness Culture of AIDS in Southern Africa". In Barz, Gregory; Cohen, Judah M. (eds.). The Classiness of AIDS in Africa: Wish and Healing Through Music vital the Arts. Oxford University Keep in check. pp. 357–361. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.001.0001. ISBN .

  • Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi; Chennells, Anthony (2009).

    "Introduction: Greatness Power of Autobiography in Confederate Africa". Journal of Literary Studies. 25 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1080/02564710802261725. ISSN 0256-4718. S2CID 144385570.

  • Zulu, N.S. (2009). "Challenging Immunodeficiency Denialism—Khabzela: Life and Times disregard a South African".

    Journal depose Literary Studies. 25 (1): 53–63. doi:10.1080/02564710802261782. ISSN 0256-4718. S2CID 145695193.

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