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Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African
the content of the book was very interesting: post-apartheid "new" south africa, life in townships, movement from townships to suburbs, and particularly the complexity of the debate in south africa around HIV treatment (ARVs, Africa's Solution, etc.).
i was not a big fan of the author's writing style, which is one of the reasons for the low rating. also, i felt that the issues that the book touches, while interesting, were rudimentary. people who have previous knowledge/experience in these topics may not learn very much from this book. i would have liked for the author to go further in depth for the various topics and bring something new to the discussion, which i felt she didn't.
on the other hand, i understand and fully appreciate that this book was probably written to be accessible to everyone, and that i may not be in the "target audienc
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Khabzela - The Life And Times Of A South African (Paperback)
Khabzela concerns the brief life and perplexing death of Fana Khaba, aka 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 fulfil a lifelong dream of becoming a DJ. No sooner had he achieved his dream - the most popular DJ on the most popular youth radio station, Yfm, with money flowing in and girls throwing themselves at him - than he fell ill with Aids. The central question of this timely and compellingly readable title is: why didn't he take anti-retrovirals and save his own life? The answer reveals a lot about many South Africans' understanding of Aids as well as the mendacity of the government's approach to it. McGregor's story introduces the reader to all sorts and conditions of South Africans as they connected with Fana and his life; taxi drivers, sangomas, a couple of Argentinian-born elderly Dutch ladies who have concocted a cure from their kitchen; academics and doct
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Khabzela: The Life And Times Of A South African
2005 biography
Khabzela: The Life And Times Of A South African is a bestselling 2005 biography written by South African author Liz McGregor about South African disc jockey Fana Khaba (known as "Khabzela"), who died from AIDS.[1]
Khabzela was popular among listeners of Yfm, a youth radio station in Gauteng.[2]
Synopsis
The book recounts how the author, Liz McGregor, was asked while working as a freelance journalist for Poz magazine to write a story about a black celebrity infected with HIV. When Khabzela announced on the radio in April 2003 that he was infected, he seemed to make an ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the story for Poz, and then went on to write the biography because, as she put it, the story "got under my skin".[3]
McGregor tells how Khabzela rose to fame in post-apartheid South Africa, enjoying relative fame and wealth and leading a hedonistic and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following his infection with HIV, Khabzela initially took antiretrovir
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