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Ndumiso Ngcobo on National identity

So, we again went to the Cape town Book Fair… based on last year’s experience we rather knew to keep our hopes moderate considering that not many of our favourite Authors were due to appear.

With our usual equipment, camera, microphones, recorder and ofcourse, our fine selves, we missioned off to the Cape Town Convention Center.

As usual, we had an agenda: to speak to atleast some of the writers and ask them the pertinent question on NATIONAL IDENTITY… National what? I hear you ask. NATIONAL IDENTITY.

Do we have it in South Africa?

With the 2010 soccer world cup around the corner, I believe South Africa should be thinking about National Unity, and even the ever so elusive National Identity.

In true Voxpop Africa media style, we caught up with, I must admit, one of our favourite writers, who never disappoints, Ndumiso Ngcobo!

On the question of National Identity in South Africa, here is what he said in response…


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Reading

August 2009 Books

- The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda

- How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

- Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover

July 2009 Books Read

- The Valkyries by Paolo Coelho

- The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

- The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

- Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coelho

- Veronika Decides To Die by Paolo Coelho

June 2009 Books Read

- For Whites Only by Charles Cilliers

- Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover

- The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda

- In the Meantime by Iyanla Vanzant

May 2009 Books Read

- So Long A Letter by Miriam Bรข

- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

- Dog Eat Dog by Niq Mhlongo

- Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton

- Is It Coz I'm Black? by Ndumiso Ngcobo

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