BOOK-LAUNCH at Ike's in Durban
Adams Campus Bookshop and IKE’s Books & Collectables in association with Jacana Publishers invite you and a partner to the launch of KHABZELA : The Life and Times of Yfm DJ , Fana Khaba who died of AIDS on 14 January 2004 , aged 35
Date: THURS 24 NOV , 5.30 for 6.00 pm
Venue : Ike’s Books , 48A Florida Rd (opp. Bean Bag Restaurant) , ph: 303-9214
Guest Speakers : author,Liz McGregor and AIDS journalist , Kerry Cullinan
RSVP : cedric@adamsbooks.co.za or ph/sms : 082-873-2702
Khabzela by Liz McGregor , concerns the brief life and perplexing death of Fana Khaba , a.k.a. Khabzela, a youth icon whose brief life mirrors that of the first generation to reach adulthood after liberation .
Born and brought up in dire poverty in Soweto , he managed against all the odds to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a DJ . No sooner had he achieved this , than he fell ill with AIDS .
The central question of this timely and astonishing book is : why didn’t he take anti- retrovirals and save his own life ?
Liz McGregor’s search for an answer takes the reader on a journey through modern South Africa ; the taxi wars and the birth of the kwaito generation , the negotiation of sexual relations in a world where sex can mean death and the flourishing of a new industry of miracle-peddlers feeding off the AIDS epidemic .
Edwin Cameron, author of Witness to Aids, comments : Liz McGregor’s account of the choices and circumstances that caused this talented and visionary young man to die , when he could have had life , is riveting and deeply moving .
Liz McGregor
Liz McGregor is the author of a biography of Khabzela, the Yfm DJ who died of AIDS in January 2004. She has recently returned to South Africa after 17 years abroad, including two years working as a freelance foreign correspondent in South Korea and 13 years as a staff journalist on the Guardian, where she was deputy editor of the Comment and Analysis pages. Prior to that, she worked for several local papers, including the Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Times and was a co-founder of Grassroots, the now defunct Cape Town activist community newspaper.
We do hope you can join us on Thursday 24th November at Ikes at 5:30pm for 6pm to meet Liz McGregor and to hear her pay tribute to Khabzela, a remarkable young man.
Date: THURS 24 NOV , 5.30 for 6.00 pm
Venue : Ike’s Books , 48A Florida Rd (opp. Bean Bag Restaurant) , ph: 303-9214
Guest Speakers : author,Liz McGregor and AIDS journalist , Kerry Cullinan
RSVP : cedric@adamsbooks.co.za or ph/sms : 082-873-2702
Khabzela by Liz McGregor , concerns the brief life and perplexing death of Fana Khaba , a.k.a. Khabzela, a youth icon whose brief life mirrors that of the first generation to reach adulthood after liberation .
Born and brought up in dire poverty in Soweto , he managed against all the odds to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a DJ . No sooner had he achieved this , than he fell ill with AIDS .
The central question of this timely and astonishing book is : why didn’t he take anti- retrovirals and save his own life ?
Liz McGregor’s search for an answer takes the reader on a journey through modern South Africa ; the taxi wars and the birth of the kwaito generation , the negotiation of sexual relations in a world where sex can mean death and the flourishing of a new industry of miracle-peddlers feeding off the AIDS epidemic .
Edwin Cameron, author of Witness to Aids, comments : Liz McGregor’s account of the choices and circumstances that caused this talented and visionary young man to die , when he could have had life , is riveting and deeply moving .
Liz McGregor
Liz McGregor is the author of a biography of Khabzela, the Yfm DJ who died of AIDS in January 2004. She has recently returned to South Africa after 17 years abroad, including two years working as a freelance foreign correspondent in South Korea and 13 years as a staff journalist on the Guardian, where she was deputy editor of the Comment and Analysis pages. Prior to that, she worked for several local papers, including the Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Times and was a co-founder of Grassroots, the now defunct Cape Town activist community newspaper.
We do hope you can join us on Thursday 24th November at Ikes at 5:30pm for 6pm to meet Liz McGregor and to hear her pay tribute to Khabzela, a remarkable young man.
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