Gwigwi mrwebi biography books
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A Sideman emerge the Frontlines_Gwigwi Mrwebi topmost South Mortal Jazz History.pdf
Introduction
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The JRB presents an excerpt from Freedom Writer: My Life and Times by the late Juby Mayet.
Freedom Writer: My Life and Times
Juby Mayet
Jacana Media, 2022
Read the excerpt
After we had finished the mid-year exams and were just messing around, waiting for college to close for the July holidays, Spooky one day said to me, ‘Come—you and I are going for a walk …’ He wouldn’t tell me where we were going, but it was one helluva long walk. From the college in Fordsburg, through the centre of Jozi, down Main Street—and I suddenly knew where we were headed. When we stopped at the corner of Main and I think Polly Street (right opposite 174 Main Street, home of the then mighty South African Associated Newspapers), Spooky said to me, ‘Okay, in you go—you want to be a writer, so take your first step now!’ (I had in fact already taken my first step, but more of that later.)
Spooky pushed open the door, with me trying with all my strength to pull away, and got me inside. Terrified, I stood there as he stepped back outside and shut the door on me and a somewhat puzzled David Sibeko (now long deceased) enquired if he could help. Switchboard operator/receptionist (of course, I only learnt who and what he was later), Sibeko was the first person I met at t
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South African Jazz Culture: Texts, Contexts, and Subtexts
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