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Layered: Lebo Mazibuko’s novel Fabrics of Love came out in August. Photo: Thandukwazi Lungelo Gcabashe
AFRICAN LITERATURE

Exploring the fabric of family and identity in Lebo Mazibuko’s Fabrics of Love

Lebo Mazibuko’s second novel, Fabrics of Love, looks at themes of family trauma, black womanhood, absent fathers and heritage

  • Rolland Simpi Motaung
8 min read
Kgaugelo Habyane, podcaster behind Manned Up Conversations, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Founder of the Character Company and Professor Malose Langa at the #Fatherlessness Dialogue.
CHARACTER COMPANY
Video

Mitigating the impact of fatherlessness in SA

Gautrain partnership aims to ‘raise boys to be good men’

  • Jamaine Krige
15 min read