Fire Walker isZulu

Fire Walker isZuluIn 2009, William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx were commissioned to make a public sculpture for the City of Johannesburg to be installed in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The sculpture is based on a drawing by Kentridge of a woman street vendor known colloquially as a fire walker carrying a burning brazier on her head. The eleven metre high figure would take her place at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge on a site formerly used by informal

Rappetti’s award-winning radio show

Growing up in poverty in Limpopo

Includes bibliographical references

The child’s father is dearer to him and his world a little less safe

Lives are threatened

a maid and a spy

a decade marked by terror and genocide

historical and cultural

Izinombolo ezibalulekile ezilikhulu

caught in the netherworld between the reckless optimism of youth and the resignation of age

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018

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