Purity Mkhize's latest song is on our lists this week.
THE READING LIST
In the story Bound to Violence: Scratching Beginnings and Endings (in the book, Ties that Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa), Stacy Hardy pieces together fragments of email exchanges with writer Lesego Rampolokeng in the hope of understanding friendship as a product of violence and betrayal. The story reminds us that our country’s foundation, built on curdled blood and truncated human parts, is no cliché. The political alignments of the day are merely a continuation of the foundations set.
THE PLAY LIST
No Secrets. This single and accompanying video marks Purity Mkhize’s re-emergence as a singer since fronting punk band Fruits and Veggies. A 180-degree turn from the full-throttle bedlam that was the previous band, Pure’s single, a clear statement on artistic and personal evolution, comes wrapped in shoals of languid electric soul and visuals that suggest a carefree but painstaking self-acceptance.
The Lists were compiled by arts writer Kwanele Sosibo