INTC 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Shanty Town, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zakes Mda
8 Apr 2016
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Style: mda translates african idioms into english (this is our brother, saw his death etc, uses magic realism, much like rushdie or latin american novelists such as. Garcia marquez or borges (fifteen month pregnancies, rebirth of vutha: uses humour, even when treating very serious subject matter. Setting : between christmas day, and new years day 1990-1991, mandell was released, writing about a period for the possibility of renewal. Enormous change politically often very little change economically. New possibility of democracy: source of home and aspiration for many poor people, in norias informal settlement, strong political organization. Street committees (discuss boycotts, stay-aways and strikes) Informal arrangements between women to care for each others children (or unwanted children at the dumping ground) Young tigers (next generation of political leaders young teenagers) Government role: in public, it seems so open to democratization, but in private they were arming traditional leaders and their followers to disrupts processes of democratization causing black on black violence.
