Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending
  • National shutdown goes off peacefully in Makhanda
  • A bond forged by mentoring
  • Ibe yimpumelelo itumente yolutsha eQhorha
  • A good financial planner is indispensable
  • Exciting encounters in LFA Premier League weekend games
  • Thembie is working towards STARDOM!
  • From Robben Island to the world
  • SACP build a house for Mama Regina after a three-year-long waiting period
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Grocott's Mail
You are at:Home»Uncategorized»Local author translates novel into isiXhosa
Uncategorized

Local author translates novel into isiXhosa

Grocott's MailBy Grocott's MailOctober 20, 2010No Comments2 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email

Literature enthusiasts filled the common room at Rhodes University's English Department recently to hear about the tribulations of how an author translates a book into an African language.

Literature enthusiasts filled the common room at Rhodes University's English Department recently to hear about the tribulations of how an author translates a book into an African language.

Siphiwo Mahala's novel When a man cries was recently published in isiXhosa as Yakhal' indoda by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. Yakhal' indoda is a novel which uses simple language and a casual style of writing, allowing easy reading and the story to flow freely.

Mahala, who is also the Deputy Director of Books and Publishing at the national Department of Arts and Culture, grew up in Grahamstown's Joza township. He attended CM Vellem Primary School, NV Cewu Higher Primary School and Ntsika Secondary School where he matriculated.

At Fort Hare University his love for languages saw him graduate with an Honours Degree in African Languages. Yakhal' indoda shows a significant development about HIV/Aids in South African literature in that the author uses the first person to tell the story of a school teacher whose risky sexual behaviour triggers some questions about his HIV status.

Mahala said: “I expose the effects of manliness and its monstrous nature as revealed in the life of Themba Limba, the one who has remained steadfastly loyal to the great imperative of masculinity imposed by his Xhosa culture: 'a man must not cry.'”

Visiting lecturer at the Rhodes University's English Department, Lizzy Attree, said Mahala is the only South African novelist who "consciously focuses with such intensity on sensitive problems of one-dimensional masculinity" and that the book inspires conversation around these topics.

Bonga Zuma said: “It is very interesting book and it was my dream to see such a great man as Mahala."

Previous ArticleStudents teach learners about HIV/Aids
Next Article Grahamstown businesses unite against crime
Grocott's Mail

Comments are closed.

Tweets by Grocotts
Newsletter



Listen

The Rhodes University Community Engagement Division has launched Engagement in Action, a new podcast which aims to bring to life some of the many ways in which the University interacts with communities around it. Check it out below.

Humans of Makhanda

Humans of Makhanda

Weather    |     About     |     Advertise     |     Subscribe     |     Contact     |     Support Grocott’s Mail

© 2023 Maintained by School of Journalism & Media Studies.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.