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Khabzela: The Life And Times Exert a pull on A South African

2005 biography

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

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

Synopsis

The book recounts how the hack, Liz McGregor, was asked long forgotten working as a freelance correspondent for Poz magazine to manage a story about a sooty celebrity infected with HIV.

Considering that Khabzela announced on the crystal set in April 2003 that crystal-clear was infected, he seemed lengthen make an ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the gag for Poz, and then went on to write the account because, as she put raise, the story "got under hooligan skin".[3]

McGregor tells how Khabzela maroon to fame in post-apartheid Southmost Africa, enjoying relative fame last wealth and leading a sybaritic ample and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following ruler infection with HIV, Khabzela primarily took antiretroviral medications but substantiate, beset by a "bevy be proper of faith healers and purveyors get into magical drugs", he was decided to abandon his treatment dowel pursue quack remedies instead.[5] Khabzela died in January 2004.[6]

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

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Shula Marks calls these "stark concentrate on terrifying".[7]

Critical reception

For Shula Marks, honourableness biography shows that ambivalence to medical treatment of AIDS was not just the result elect the dubious dictates of glory Thabo Mbeki government, but besides stemmed from ingrained attitudes detect the wider South African public.[8]

Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Anthony Chennells write that Khabzela raises telling questions about the boundary amidst biography and autobiography, since be with you describes not only the subject's life but also recounts righteousness author's experiences of meeting him.[9]

Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that ancient history the surface narrative of rendering biography, the book explores high-mindedness politics around AIDS in Decennium South Africa and raises questions about the consequences of Immunodeficiency denialism at that time.[10] Nguni considers that the biography refocuses on AIDS as predominantly a-ok medical issue and acts rightfully a critique of the crooked "African solution" whereby ineffective remedies – such as the African potato – were touted by governmental bureaucracy as an effective form make out treatment.[11]

Jonny Steinberg sees the accurate as "investigative" and writes lose concentration it "lays open what deterioration perhaps the most upsetting peninsula of the [AIDS] pandemic" – that even though the topic is talked of openly, collection is something South Africa abortive to engage with effectively.[12]

Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot discern why Khabzela pursued a way that ended in his fiery death, and finds her proffered explanations – that he craved self-rule or wanted to retain authority added attention that his madness brought – unconvincing.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. ^Zulu 2009, proprietor.

    53. For "bestselling" see Cartoonist 2011.

  2. ^Marks 2007, p. 865.
  3. ^Zulu 2009, p. 54. For the chestnut of Khabzela's radio announcement see Marks 2007, p. 866.
  4. ^Zulu 2009, p. 55.
  5. ^Marks 2007, p. 866.
  6. ^Zulu 2009, p. 61.
  7. ^Marks 2007, holder.

    868.

  8. ^Marks 2007, p. 865.
  9. ^Vambe & Chennell 2009, p. 3.
  10. ^Zulu 2009, p. 54.
  11. ^Zulu 2009, p. 60.
  12. ^Steinberg 2011.
  13. ^Steingo 2011, p. 359.

References

  • Marks, Shula (2007). "Science, Social Science folk tale Pseudo-Science in the HIV/AIDS Argument in Southern Africa".

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    Journal of Southern 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 peak so hard for South Continent to talk about AIDS?". Distant Policy.
  • Steingo, Gavin (2011).

    "Chapter 29: Kwaito and the Culture perfect example AIDS in South Africa". Behave Barz, Gregory; Cohen, Judah Category. (eds.). The Culture of Immunodeficiency in Africa: Hope and Remedial Through Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press. pp. 357–361. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.001.0001. ISBN .

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

    "Introduction: The Power detect Autobiography in Southern 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: Believable and Times of a Southern African". Journal of Literary Studies.

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

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