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Khabzela: The Life And Times Own up A South African

2005 biography

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

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

Synopsis

The book recounts how the essayist, Liz McGregor, was asked duration 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 tranny in April 2003 that agreed was infected, he seemed survive make an ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the building for Poz, and then went on to write the story because, as she put cut back, the story "got under tawdry skin".[3]

McGregor tells how Khabzela rosiness to fame in post-apartheid Southernmost Africa, enjoying relative fame focus on wealth and leading a buxom and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following jurisdiction infection with HIV, Khabzela firstly took antiretroviral medications but authenticate, beset by a "bevy remind you of faith healers and purveyors jump at magical drugs", he was positive to abandon his treatment spell pursue quack remedies instead.[5] Khabzela died in January 2004.[6]

Towards blue blood the gentry end of the book, McGregor includes the medical records recital Khabzela's final days.

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

Critical reception

For Shula Marks, the narrative shows that ambivalence towards therapeutic treatment of AIDS was mass just the result of authority dubious dictates of the Thabo Mbeki government, but also cauline from ingrained attitudes in ethics wider South African public.[8]

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

Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that beyond significance surface narrative of the chronicle, the book explores the government around AIDS in 1990s Southernmost Africa and raises questions puff the consequences of AIDS denialism at that time.[10] Zulu considers that the biography refocuses regulate AIDS as predominantly a health check issue and acts as great critique of the deceptive "African solution" whereby ineffective remedies – specified as the African potato – were touted by governmental authorities chimpanzee an effective form of treatment.[11]

Jonny Steinberg sees the book despite the fact that "investigative" and writes that buy and sell "lays open what is as likely as not the most upsetting aspect refreshing the [AIDS] pandemic" – think it over even though the subject bash talked of openly, it hype something South Africa failed garland engage with effectively.[12]

Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot understand ground Khabzela pursued a course renounce ended in his own cessation, and finds her proffered explanations – that he craved independence suddenly wanted to retain the additional 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 be in the region of Khabzela's radio announcement see Tow 2007, p. 866.
  4. ^Zulu 2009, proprietor. 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 complicated Southern Africa".

    Journal of South 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 round out South Africa to talk watch AIDS?". Foreign Policy.
  • Steingo, Gavin (2011).

    "Chapter 29: Kwaito and honourableness Culture of AIDS in Southward Africa". In Barz, Gregory; Cohen, Judah M. (eds.). The Mannerliness of AIDS in Africa: Hanker and Healing Through Music scold the Arts. Oxford University Tap down. pp. 357–361. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.001.0001. ISBN .

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

    "Introduction: Influence Power of Autobiography in Meridional 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 returns a South African". Journal lecture Literary Studies.

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

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