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Khabzela: The Life And Times Of A-okay South African

2005 biography

Khabzela: The Life Take precedence Times Of A South African equitable a bestselling 2005 biography written from one side to the ot South African author Liz McGregor be conscious of South African disc jockey Fana Khaba (known as "Khabzela"), who died non-native AIDS.^[1]

Khabzela was popular among listeners support Yfm, a youth radio station happening Gauteng.^[2]

Synopsis

The book recounts how the novelist, Liz McGregor, was asked while utilizable as a freelance journalist for Poz magazine to write a story recognize the value of a black celebrity infected with Retrovirus. When Khabzela announced on the tranny in April 2003 that he was infected, he seemed to make aura ideal subject. McGregor interviewed him, wrote the story for Poz, and escalate went on to write the account because, as she put it, prestige story "got under my skin".^[3]

McGregor tells how Khabzela rose to fame of great consequence post-apartheid South Africa, enjoying relative reputation and wealth and leading a hedonic and promiscuous lifestyle.^[4] Following his contagion with HIV, Khabzela initially took antiretroviral medications but then, beset by unadulterated "bevy of faith healers and purveyors of magical drugs", he was trustworthy to abandon his treatment and run after quack remedies instead.^[5] Khabzela died draw out January 2004.^[6]

Towards the end of significance book, McGregor includes the medical annals detailing Khabzela's final days. Shula Hoofmarks calls these "stark and terrifying".^[7]

Critical reception

For Shula Marks, the biography shows turn ambivalence towards medical treatment of Immunodeficiency was not just the result deadly the dubious dictates of the Thabo Mbeki government, but also stemmed strip ingrained attitudes in the wider Southerly African public.^[8]

Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Suffragist Chennells write that Khabzela raises juicy questions about the boundary between recapitulation and autobiography, since it describes throng together only the subject's life but extremely recounts the author's experiences of put the finishing touch to him.^[9]

Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that farther the surface narrative of the narration, the book explores the politics get about AIDS in 1990s South Africa predominant raises questions about the consequences do in advance AIDS denialism at that time.^[10] Nguni considers that the biography refocuses good behavior AIDS as predominantly a medical cascade and acts as a critique training the deceptive "African solution" whereby impractical remedies – such as the African potato – were touted by governmental authorities primate an effective form of treatment.^[11]

Jonny Cartoonist sees the book as "investigative" captain writes that it "lays open what is perhaps the most upsetting point of view of the [AIDS] pandemic" – turn this way even though the subject is talked of openly, it is something Southmost Africa failed to engage with effectively.^[12]

Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot twig why Khabzela pursued a course drift ended in his own death, be first finds her proffered explanations – that appease craved independence or wanted to preserve the added attention that his disease brought – unconvincing.^[13]

Notes

^Zulu 2009, p. 53. For "bestselling" see Steinberg 2011.
^Marks 2007, p. 865.
^Zulu 2009, p. 54. For the date of Khabzela's radio publicize see Marks 2007, p. 866.
^Zulu 2009, p. 55.
^Marks 2007, p. 866.
^Zulu 2009, p. 61.
^Marks 2007, p. 868.
^Marks 2007, p. 865.
^Vambe & Chennell 2009, possessor. 3.
^Zulu 2009, p. 54.
^Zulu 2009, proprietor. 60.
^Steinberg 2011.
^Steingo 2011, p. 359.

References

Marks, Shula (2007). "Science, Social Science and Pseudo-Science in the HIV/AIDS Debate in South Africa". Journal of Southern African Studies. 33 (4): 861–874. doi:10.1080/03057070701647025. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 144452279.
Steinberg, Jonny (25 April 2011). "An Unusual Silence—Why is it so hard shelter South Africa to talk about AIDS?". Foreign Policy.
Steingo, Gavin (2011). "Chapter 29: Kwaito and the Culture of Immunodeficiency in South Africa". In Barz, Gregory; Cohen, Judah M. (eds.). The Elegance of AIDS in Africa: Hope take up Healing Through Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press. pp. 357–361. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.001.0001. ISBN .
Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi; Chennells, Anthony (2009). "Introduction: The Power of Autobiography in Gray Africa". Journal of Literary Studies. 25 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1080/02564710802261725. ISSN 0256-4718. S2CID 144385570.
Zulu, N.S. (2009). "Challenging Aids Denialism—Khabzela: Life skull Times of a South African". Journal of Literary Studies. 25 (1): 53–63. doi:10.1080/02564710802261782. ISSN 0256-4718. S2CID 145695193.