Makhosazana Xaba
Biographic Data
| ID | 786756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Makhosazana Xaba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Makhosazana |
| FAMILY NAME | Xaba |
| SIGNATURE | XABA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7282-2113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
For a New Humanity: A Conversation . . . in Two Acts
This interview with Makhosazana Xaba, renowned South African feminist poet and writer, centers on Izimpabanga Zomhlaba (2024), Xaba's isiZulu translation of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Excerpted from a longer conversation, Act 1 of the interview dwells on the practice and politics of translanguaging and the relationship between peace, freedom, and translation among African vernacular languages. The incomplete nature of freedo…
The Intimacy of Held Solidarity: A Joint Memoir of Activism
This work reflects the slow intimacy of solidarity over time. We uncover some of what we know and have known with examples from anti-apartheid activism and the women's health movement in South Africa. Solidarity is an expression of knowing trust. Knowing that you are often on each other's side and leaning towards justice, demanding a relationship of knowing in instances of vulnerability. Being held in solidarity is a gesture of engaging in a shar…
Township Girls: The Cross-Over Generation (Nomsa Mwamuka, Farai Mpisaunga Mpofu & Wadzanai Garwe, eds.)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Noni Jabavu: A peripatetic writer ahead of her times
When Noni Jabavu died in June last year, I had just talked about her biography a few days earlier at the Cape Town International Book Fair. I was the only person on that four-person panel whose biography was still ‘work-in-progress’. Her death brought that progress to a pause. It numbed me to inaction in ways I had not expected. I realized then that my emotional connection to her was much stronger than I had acknowledged to myself. Although I had…
Three Women
Three women step out of the Calabash hotelThe sudden wave of freezing raindrops-filled windsHits them. They hug in haste, run to the two carsMidnight approaches, sounding louder & louderThe youngest woman, alone in her car smilesUnstoppably, to herself, as she drives into the nightThe voices of the two women still alive in her headIn bed, her smile becomes the conductor of her dreamsIn the black Mercedes Benz, C180 the oldest womanTurns on the he…
Roundtable review: This Death Lives: Grace Musila as a Biographer
There was no midwife at the birth of this death. Had there been one, there would be a record of how the labour had progressed; of the nature and frequency of the labour pains. The exact date, time
Found Poems from the Novel And They Didn’t Die
(2017). Found Poems from the Novel And They Didn’t Die. Scrutiny2: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 16-21
What Is a Place?”: Exploring Place and Displacement in Lauretta Ngcobo’s Novel Cross of Gold
Very little has been written about Lauretta Ngcobo’s first novel, Cross of Gold. Ngcobo uses a historical moment in Cross of Gold where the novel follows the lives of those affected by the Sharpeville Massacre. Central in the novel is the displacement of Black people during apartheid as a result of the pass laws as well as the oppressive apartheid laws that forced Black people to leave their homes. The novel brings into question the representatio…
Tongues of their mothers: The language of writing
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
A future without me
Ensuring women's right to choose: Exploring nurses' role in the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act
The 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOPA) laid the foundation for South African women to exercise choice as well as their right to have control over their bodies. Nurses are the largest category of health care providers, and their centrality to improved health and health systems performance is undisputed. Yet, there is little documentation of the voices and experiences of nurses in broader health policy advocacy, development and imp…
Commentary
"Commentary." Reproductive Health Matters, 5(9), pp. 119–120
The Health of Women: A Global Perspective
The Intimacy of Held Solidarity: A Joint Memoir of Activism
This work reflects the slow intimacy of solidarity over time. We uncover some of what we know and have known with examples from anti-apartheid activism and the women's health movement in South Africa. Solidarity is an expression of knowing trust. Knowing that you are often on each other's side and leaning towards justice, demanding a relationship of knowing in instances of vulnerability. Being held in solidarity is a gesture of engaging in a shar…
Noni Jabavu: A peripatetic writer ahead of her times
When Noni Jabavu died in June last year, I had just talked about her biography a few days earlier at the Cape Town International Book Fair. I was the only person on that four-person panel whose biography was still ‘work-in-progress’. Her death brought that progress to a pause. It numbed me to inaction in ways I had not expected. I realized then that my emotional connection to her was much stronger than I had acknowledged to myself. Although I had…
What Is a Place?”: Exploring Place and Displacement in Lauretta Ngcobo’s Novel Cross of Gold
Very little has been written about Lauretta Ngcobo’s first novel, Cross of Gold. Ngcobo uses a historical moment in Cross of Gold where the novel follows the lives of those affected by the Sharpeville Massacre. Central in the novel is the displacement of Black people during apartheid as a result of the pass laws as well as the oppressive apartheid laws that forced Black people to leave their homes. The novel brings into question the representatio…
Tongues of their mothers: The language of writing
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
The Health of Women: A Global Perspective
Commentary
"Commentary." Reproductive Health Matters, 5(9), pp. 119–120
Ensuring women's right to choose: Exploring nurses' role in the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act
The 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOPA) laid the foundation for South African women to exercise choice as well as their right to have control over their bodies. Nurses are the largest category of health care providers, and their centrality to improved health and health systems performance is undisputed. Yet, there is little documentation of the voices and experiences of nurses in broader health policy advocacy, development and imp…
A future without me
Roundtable review: This Death Lives: Grace Musila as a Biographer
There was no midwife at the birth of this death. Had there been one, there would be a record of how the labour had progressed; of the nature and frequency of the labour pains. The exact date, time
Found Poems from the Novel And They Didn’t Die
(2017). Found Poems from the Novel And They Didn’t Die. Scrutiny2: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 16-21
What Is a Place?”: Exploring Place and Displacement in Lauretta Ngcobo’s Novel Cross of Gold
Very little has been written about Lauretta Ngcobo’s first novel, Cross of Gold. Ngcobo uses a historical moment in Cross of Gold where the novel follows the lives of those affected by the Sharpeville Massacre. Central in the novel is the displacement of Black people during apartheid as a result of the pass laws as well as the oppressive apartheid laws that forced Black people to leave their homes. The novel brings into question the representatio…
Tongues of their mothers: The language of writing
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Noni Jabavu: A peripatetic writer ahead of her times
When Noni Jabavu died in June last year, I had just talked about her biography a few days earlier at the Cape Town International Book Fair. I was the only person on that four-person panel whose biography was still ‘work-in-progress’. Her death brought that progress to a pause. It numbed me to inaction in ways I had not expected. I realized then that my emotional connection to her was much stronger than I had acknowledged to myself. Although I had…
Three Women
Three women step out of the Calabash hotelThe sudden wave of freezing raindrops-filled windsHits them. They hug in haste, run to the two carsMidnight approaches, sounding louder & louderThe youngest woman, alone in her car smilesUnstoppably, to herself, as she drives into the nightThe voices of the two women still alive in her headIn bed, her smile becomes the conductor of her dreamsIn the black Mercedes Benz, C180 the oldest womanTurns on the he…
Township Girls: The Cross-Over Generation (Nomsa Mwamuka, Farai Mpisaunga Mpofu & Wadzanai Garwe, eds.)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
The Intimacy of Held Solidarity: A Joint Memoir of Activism
This work reflects the slow intimacy of solidarity over time. We uncover some of what we know and have known with examples from anti-apartheid activism and the women's health movement in South Africa. Solidarity is an expression of knowing trust. Knowing that you are often on each other's side and leaning towards justice, demanding a relationship of knowing in instances of vulnerability. Being held in solidarity is a gesture of engaging in a shar…
For a New Humanity: A Conversation . . . in Two Acts
This interview with Makhosazana Xaba, renowned South African feminist poet and writer, centers on Izimpabanga Zomhlaba (2024), Xaba's isiZulu translation of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Excerpted from a longer conversation, Act 1 of the interview dwells on the practice and politics of translanguaging and the relationship between peace, freedom, and translation among African vernacular languages. The incomplete nature of freedo…
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