Mar 13, 2020
image 1: a Thembu mother and child captured by Alice Mertens, 1973
image 2: a scamp of AbaThembu - leadership
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image 1: a Thembu mother and child captured by Alice Mertens, 1973
image 2: a scamp of AbaThembu - leadership
image 1: a scamp of the AmaMpondomise - religion
image 2: a Mpondomise matron wearing a spectacular headdress (iqhiya) captured by Alice Mertens, 1973
image 1: a scamp of the AmaMfengu - education
image 2: a young Mfengu woman adorned in her beads captured by Alice Mertens, 1973
interrogate History for the mummy of silence fidgeting under its tongue. aggravate it, as one might be by chewing on a rock. History is a cannibal already familiar with grinding women and their names into amnesia. The Canon fancies itself a temple when its devotees congregate to carve out hymn sung both in marble and myth.
Siphokazi Jonas (2018)
image 1: an extract from Rock Cause Analysis (2018) narrative written by Lungi Morrison
image 2: a scanned scamp of the Mpondo woman