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AFRICAN STORYTELLING

Vuyelwa Maluleke’s ‘The Blue Album’ and the language of return

A one-woman performance that confronts memory, violence and complicity, as Vuyelwa Maluleke reclaims language to tell a black queer township story on her own terms

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Honouring the dead: A memorial to gay rights activist and Banyana star Eudy Simelane. Two men were convicted and jailed for her murder. (Mduduzi Ndzingi/Gallo Images/Drum)
BLACK LESBIANS

Hate killings of black lesbians in South Africa: 2008 to 2018

The second part of an edited extract from Femicide in South Africa (Kwela) by Nechama Brodie lists the names of black lesbians who were murdered, allegedly because of their…

  • Nechama Brodie
13 min read
Celebrating justice: Women’s rights activists outside the Khayelitsha magistrate’s court in 2012 at the sentencing of Zoliswa Nkonyana’s killers. Four men were sentenced to 18 years in jail each for the February 2006 murder of the 19-year-old lesbian. (Shelley Christians/ Gallo Images/The Times)
AIDS DENIALISM

‘We only write about them when they are dead’: Hate killings of black lesbians in South Africa

In her book ‘Femicide in South Africa’, journalist and researcher Nechama Brodie examines the violent history the country’s black lesbians have endured

  • Nechama Brodie
10 min read