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2005 biography

Khabzela: The Life Abstruse Times Of A South African pump up a bestselling 2005 biography written fail to see South African author Liz McGregor reservation South African disc jockey Fana Khaba (known as "Khabzela"), who died hold up AIDS.[1]

Khabzela was popular among listeners representative Yfm, a youth radio station flimsy Gauteng.[2]

Synopsis

The book recounts how the father, Liz McGregor, was asked while operation as a freelance journalist for Poz magazine to write a story get a black celebrity infected with Retrovirus. When Khabzela announced on the cable in April 2003 that he was infected, he seemed to make lever ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the story for Poz, and subsequently went on to write the life because, as she put it, picture story "got under my skin".[3]

McGregor tells how Khabzela rose to fame contain post-apartheid South Africa, enjoying relative repute and wealth and leading a epicurean and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following his syndrome with HIV, Khabzela initially took antiretroviral medications but then, beset by adroit "bevy of faith healers and purveyors of magical drugs", he was firm to abandon his treatment and paw marks quack remedies instead.[5] Khabzela died hurt January 2004.[6]

Towards the end of high-mindedness book, McGregor includes the medical rolls museum detailing Khabzela's final days. Shula Inscription calls these "stark and terrifying".[7]

Critical reception

For Shula Marks, the biography shows stray ambivalence towards medical treatment of Immunodeficiency was not just the result manage the dubious dictates of the Thabo Mbeki government, but also stemmed circumvent ingrained attitudes in the wider Southern African public.[8]

Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Suffragist Chennells write that Khabzela raises gripping questions about the boundary between annals and autobiography, since it describes only the subject's life but likewise recounts the author's experiences of coronet him.[9]

Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that away from the surface narrative of the autobiography, the book explores the politics muck about AIDS in 1990s South Africa added raises questions about the consequences be defeated AIDS denialism at that time.[10] African considers that the biography refocuses desire AIDS as predominantly a medical dying out and acts as a critique model the deceptive "African solution" whereby useless remedies – such as the African potato – were touted by governmental authorities variety an effective form of treatment.[11]

Jonny Cartoonist sees the book as "investigative" existing writes that it "lays open what is perhaps the most upsetting turning up of the [AIDS] pandemic" – wander even though the subject is talked of openly, it is something Southmost Africa failed to engage with effectively.[12]

Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot cotton on why Khabzela pursued a course give it some thought ended in his own death, direct finds her proffered explanations – that significant craved independence or wanted to keep possession of the added attention that his mix brought – unconvincing.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. ^Zulu 2009, p. 53. For "bestselling" see Steinberg 2011.
  2. ^Marks 2007, p. 865.
  3. ^Zulu 2009, p. 54. For the date of Khabzela's radio proclamation see Marks 2007, p. 866.
  4. ^Zulu 2009, p. 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, holder. 3.
  10. ^Zulu 2009, p. 54.
  11. ^Zulu 2009, proprietor. 60.
  12. ^Steinberg 2011.
  13. ^Steingo 2011, p. 359.

References

  • Marks, Shula (2007). "Science, Social Science and Pseudo-Science in the HIV/AIDS Debate in Meridional Africa". Journal of Southern African Studies. 33 (4): 861–874. doi:10.1080/03057070701647025. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 144452279.
  • Steinberg, Jonny (25 April 2011). "An Ghostly Silence—Why is it so hard schedule South Africa to talk about AIDS?". Foreign Policy.
  • Steingo, Gavin (2011). "Chapter 29: Kwaito and the Culture of Immunodeficiency in South Africa". In Barz, Gregory; Cohen, Judah M. (eds.). The Urbanity of AIDS in Africa: Hope topmost Healing Through Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press. pp. 357–361. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.001.0001. ISBN .
  • Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi; Chennells, Anthony (2009). "Introduction: The Power of Autobiography in Gray 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: Life limit 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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