This past Sunday the Jazz In The Native Yards team organised for Marianne Thamm to interview prolific South African writer Sindiwe Magona at her home in Gugulethu. The venue was small, intimate and highly significant; where else would discussions about Home and Heritage be more pertinent?
Sindiwe Magona is a young, black, female writer's dream. She is feisty, fiercely intelligent and very open and approachable. She looks half her age and has quadruple the wisdom =) She felt like a mother telling all of us, her children, about her journeys in life; about how she decided as a young mother to take her life into her own hands and not let an unequal system of oppression define her.She spoke about our homes and the conversations we need to have in them. Why have a conversation about domestic violence at a conference and not in a home? These are questions we need to ask ourselves.
If you search for Faith In A Jar on Youtube you should find my channel where I will be uploading footage from Ma Magona's conversation, as well as other videos I shoot along the way. With the following link you can find a couple of video clips from from the talk and hear the words from the woman herself =)
http://youtu.be/a6BrWhnFh9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsM4k-Tlw4
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