ZAKES MDA IN CITY OF ROSES

Zakes Mda, the world celebrated writer - author of novels like Ways of Dying, The Madonna of Excelsior, Inside the whale, etc -was at the Central University of Technology (Bloemfontein) to orchestrate a creative workshop. Many writers and cultural activists seized the opportunity to see the great man (Zakes) in the flesh. Ntate Mda indeed facilitated the proceedings with elan and usual humour. Venue was the Japie van Lill Auditorium. What an occasion!

PHOTO (above) shows Zakes Mda with versatile Free State writer, author, and essayist, Saint George Vis.