It’s life changing” Dube recounts, “I was a rebel but also, I was her best student. Dube found this task easy, it came natural to her and to her surprise her teacher made such a big deal, her English teacher did not abate letting Dube know how good a writer she is “and that’s the most important thing anyone can tell a 16-year-old. She is not sure when she fell in love with writing but, it was her English teacher who encouraged her, by giving her a task to go home and write a story and bring back to school the next day. Which makes it hard to believe because, they are such full and real characters. I become the character and let my mind do the leading” she says. “ I must tell you that I didn’t sit and plan what kind of a person Hlomu was going to be or where Zandile was going to end. Personally, I don’t think you can pride yourself in being a book worm and a lover of African fiction, especially South African and woman produced work if you have not heard of or joined the cult following that this KwaMashu original has garnered in such a short space of time, do yourself a favour.ĭube, a senior journalist at The New Age heard the voices and ran with them. I truly feel like I have been living under a rock, and in January someone lifted it and I have been in awe ever since. To be frank, I feel like I have let myself down only catching on to Dudu Busani-Dube early this year.
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