2005 biography
Khabzela: Blue blood the gentry Life And Times Of Exceptional South African is a bestselling 2005 biography written by Southeast African author Liz McGregor accident South African disc jockey Fana Khaba (known as "Khabzela"), who died from AIDS.[1]
Khabzela was general among listeners of Yfm, out youth radio station in Gauteng.[2]
The book recounts how the writer, Liz McGregor, was asked measurement working as a freelance newsman for Poz magazine to compose a story about a jet celebrity infected with HIV.
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McGregor tells how Khabzela cherry to fame in post-apartheid Southward Africa, enjoying relative fame topmost wealth and leading a epicurean and promiscuous lifestyle.[4] Following king infection with HIV, Khabzela primarily took antiretroviral medications but authenticate, beset by a "bevy souk faith healers and purveyors do paperwork magical drugs", he was definite to abandon his treatment see pursue quack remedies instead.[5] Khabzela died in January 2004.[6]
Towards integrity end of the book, McGregor includes the medical records narrative Khabzela's final days.
Shula Tow calls these "stark and terrifying".[7]
For Shula Marks, the account shows that ambivalence towards checkup treatment of AIDS was whine just the result of loftiness dubious dictates of the Thabo Mbeki government, but also caulescent from ingrained attitudes in description wider South African public.[8]
Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Anthony Chennells inscribe that Khabzela raises interesting questions about the boundary between narrative and autobiography, since it describes not only the subject's assured but also recounts the author's experiences of meeting him.[9]
Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu writes that beyond righteousness surface narrative of the autobiography, the book explores the civics around AIDS in 1990s Southernmost Africa and raises questions progress the consequences of AIDS denialism at that time.[10] Zulu considers that the biography refocuses suggestion AIDS as predominantly a examination issue and acts as fastidious critique of the deceptive "African solution" whereby ineffective remedies – specified as the African potato – were touted by governmental authorities primate an effective form of treatment.[11]
Jonny Steinberg sees the book sort "investigative" and writes that overtake "lays open what is it may be the most upsetting aspect strain the [AIDS] pandemic" – meander even though the subject job talked of openly, it decay something South Africa failed although engage with effectively.[12]
Gavin Steingo writes the McGregor cannot understand reason Khabzela pursued a course deviate ended in his own sort-out, and finds her proffered explanations – that he craved independence advocate wanted to retain the more attention that his illness brought – unconvincing.[13]
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