Zakes Mda’s latest exhibition Mirrors and Washboards celebrates ordinary people: The well-known author cherishes ordinary figures, healing, performance and his late great friend Hugh Masekela
Buried deep amongst the bushes of a mountainous region in a village on the border of the Eastern Cape and Lesotho is a cave where ancient San rock art merges with the childhood drawings of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, better known as prolific artist Zakes Mda. The renowned author and his friends encountered these drawings during the December holidays of his youth when he would visit from his home in Soweto where his parents worked.
“I’m a writer of historical fiction. I’m not a historian,” says Mda, sitting comfortably in his modest Joburg apartment, thousands of kilometres away from his home in Ohio, USA, where he recently worked as an English professor at the local university. c, leaders and generals. They focus on what wars these people fought, what treaties they wrote, and how they interacted with countries. For me, I look at the small people in that story. I look at the micro, while historians look at the macro.
Indeed, Mda’s first love has always been painting and was ignited for the first time when he drew over the rock art in his home village. His father A. P. Mda, who was a lawyer, teacher and co-founder of the ANC Youth League, also influenced his son’s passion. As Mda notes, his father took on portrait painting as a hobby and “was quite well-known for the accuracy of his portraits and for drawing people exactly as they are.
The lives of these men and their families are marred by the fatal shootings of those men to the extent that the majority of the population can only remember them through the brutality of the Marikana massacres.
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