New web article: Closet reflections on South Africa at 21: Remembering David Motsamayi

As a Zimbabwean playwright who lives in South Africa, Pedzisai Maedza, winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2014, in this web article reflects on the recent 'xenophobic' attacks against African immigrants in South Africa. Earlier, Maedza produced a play about the attacks on immigrants in South Africa in 2008. In 2014, he graduated with distinction at the University of Cape Town on a thesis that studies the use of testimonial performances around the concept of asylum.

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An abbreviated version of this article appeared in Dutch on the Afrikablog of de Volkskrant on 5 May 2015.

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Pedzisai Maedza