Reposted by Zakes MdaIvor W. Hartmann @ivorhartmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Fantastic, can't wait to see it @zakesmda.bsky.social!brittlepaper.comSouth African Novelist Zakes Mda and Michael Bronner Co-write a $16 Million Film on Miriam Makeba and Hugh MasekelaCynthia Erivo, Thabo Rametsi and Guy Pearce have joined the cast of The Road Home, a musical drama about South African jazz legends Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba and Hugh Masekela and their Apartheid-er... 023
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 07/07/2025youtube.com/watch?v=pd_t...youtube.comNovelist Zakes Mda's books published in MandarinYouTube video by SABC News 020
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 17/06/2025In case you’re at Shanghai Normal University or environs, you’re welcome 030
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Thank you for your kind words. By my count it’s more than twenty plays. 000
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 27/04/2025www.instagram.com/reel/DIyIRaU...instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 000
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Oh my goodness, the Chinese are so naughty. They now call POTUS Comrade Trump because everything he does advances China and undermines the USA. They say he must be a secret member of their Communist Party. They also call him the Builder of the Nation, and that nation, of course, is China! 051
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 18/03/2025According to Grok3 Elon Musk is the biggest disinformation spreader on X 021
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Itumeleng Mahabane, who has lived in the USA for many years, says, “The problem with South Africa is that we have the kind of freedom people in the US think they have, and it makes us recklessly naive.” As a South African academic/ artist who has lived in the USA for 44 yrs I agree with him in toto. 052
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025youtube.com/watch?v=AOLu... Tribute to Athol Fugardyoutube.comTributes to honour legendary playwright Athol FugardYouTube video by Newzroom Afrika 030
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The last time I visited Athol Fugard in Stellenbosch (seen here with his wife Dr Paula Fourie) we joked about death and laughed at it. Yesterday it took him. He will be missed, but he lives forever in his works. 0152
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 09/03/2025“There’s the biggest mall that’s coming to Johannesburg,” says Panyaza Lesufi with aplomb. “Twenty-four thousand square meters. That’s the BRICS investment we managed to get.” Yep! We continue to build palaces of consumption, and none of production. 3289
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Imagine him with 34 criminal convictions (equivalent of felonies in the USA) and yet allowed to run for parliament and then elected president! And many many more anti-democratic anomalies! Imagine! Imagine! 121
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 09/02/2025For one thing, the USA would not have an imperial presidency as they have now. Imagine Cyril issuing executive orders left and right and centre like an emperor of the realm, which must be obeyed however stupid they are. Imagine our Constitutional Court ruling he cannot be charged with any crime. 042
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 09/02/2025“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s” -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 053
Reposted by Zakes MdaDr Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Thanks so much for sharing @poptartology.bsky.social @africa.theconversation.com Once again literature often leads the way in describing the terrors & dangers of #ZamaZama life in South Africa/Lesotho @zakesmda.bsky.social #Stillfontein #SouthAfrica #Marikana #NeverAgain #ANC #Zuma #Ramaphosa 095
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Zakes Mda on his latest novel, set in Lesotho’s musical gang wars theconversation.com/zakes-mda-on...theconversation.comZakes Mda on his latest novel, set in Lesotho’s musical gang warsLesotho’s famo music is known for the use of accordions - and gang violence. In Wayfarers’ Hymns, Zakes Mda explores this tradition. 193
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 11/01/2025American jurisprudence is a fine kettle of fish. “Unconditional discharge” is a conviction! It means that @realDonaldTrump carries the mark of a felon, but nothing else happens to Felon Trump. He lives happily ever after. 041
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Elon Musk: I know you believe that Donald Trump made you king of the world, hence your issuing directives to other countries, including BRICS, imperial UK and Germany. But I hate to tell you the truth, Boykie, yours is a papier-mâché crown; the Don does not own the world. 071
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 29/12/2024What’s the problem? Cenk Uygur is merely returning to his rightwing roots. 030
Reposted by Zakes MdaIvor W. Hartmann @ivorhartmann.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Its like the climate crisis/greenhouse effect, first proposed in 1824, quantified in 1896, by the 1970s scientists explicitly telling us there was a problem. Yet apart from J.G Ballard ('60s) and a few others we only started writing about it in fiction way after it was well underway already. 021
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024These things were not really coming. In 1995 they had already started happening 140
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 11/12/2024A step in the right direction. I have kids in New Jersey. One day I may have grandkids there. 060
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Seneca the Younger (4 BCE to 65 CE), the stoic philosopher, playwright and statesman of Rome, supposedly made the apt observation: “Religion is regarded by the common people [some quote him as saying by “the poor”] as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” 040
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Mr Morgan is prone to uttering the darnedest of things. 000
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social · 20/11/2024At last, a space free of Elon Musk’s smug and puerile posts! 050
