@UnplayableZA Sithole played very well
Mbokazi is on another level
Mofokeng broke the curse for showing up in big game
Makgopa showed up
Moremi is a game changer
Steve Biko was 30 years old when he died. Frantz Fanon was 36 at his death. At 30, Biko had already comprehensively developed the entire ideational structure/paradigm that underpins Black Consciousness Philosophy, as we know it today. At 36 Fanon had authored several books and essays, two of which are seminal texts in decolonial theory/literature, as we know it today. Jabulani Nobleman Nxumalo was 35 when he died in 1991, and was only 32 years old when his iconic book was published: "Gatsha Buthelezi - Chief with a Double Agenda" (the scathing critique of the IFP and its leadership). Nxumalo's polemical essays, although largely uncited, shaped much of the SACP's early thinking on racial capitalism, Black Marxism, and their theories as regards the relationship between capitalism and colonial disturbance. Books and writing aside, Kaizer Motaung was only 26 years old when he established Kaizer Chiefs Football Club in 1970 - it has grown to become the biggest brand in South Africa, and is one of the very few successful institutions that were established and owned 100% by Black people. Now back to books and writing; Toni Morrison lived longer, she was 88 when she died in 2019. But, she was 39 when she submitted the manuscript of her first novel to be published; she was considered a late bloomer, even though she was still in her 30s. Bessie Head was 48 years old when she died, but was only 31 years old when her now world-acclaimed novel was published: "When Rain Clouds Gather". What about Nadine Gordimer? Almost like Morrison, she also lived a long life; she was 90 when she died in 2014. She was only 35 when her iconic novel, "A World of Strangers" was published in 1958. She continued writing politically subversive books, such that in 1976 the white racist government banned her book: "The Late Bourgeois World", which was published in 1966.
What are 30+ year olds thinking/reading/writing in 2026? What are we doing ngempela? 🤔 I wonder! (I'm not excluding myself here. At all)
***Happy Youth Month to all the young people of South Africa! 🙃