The Portfolio: Tinashe Mushakavanhu
/ 24 January 2020

The Portfolio: Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats is a conceptual book that employs a wide range of visual, typographic and structural strategies. Drawing from a 40-year archive of interviews from and with Zimbabwean writers, the ambition of the book was to make the reader eavesdrop on a multigenerational conversation about writing as craft and as […]

Dedicated to Heartbeats
/ 24 January 2020

Dedicated to Heartbeats

Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats has been in my possession since August 22, 2019, which was when co-editor Tinashe Mushakavanhu first handed it to me at a book event. From initially being struck by the book’s minimalistic colour scheme and evocative design, I was soon floored by its contents, which were largely a […]

Slice of life: A proposal at the opera
/ 24 January 2020

Slice of life: A proposal at the opera

I started singing formally in 2003. Before that I was in the school choir. I came to visit family in Cape Town, and by luck I met people who were opera singers. They encouraged me to audition for the Cape Town Opera, and that is how it started. It was not always easy. I went […]