MAKHAFULA VILAKAZI - CONCERNING BLACKS

The poet Makhafula Vilakazi returns to the stage. He is angry.
Not the sort of infantile performative rage we observe when restaurant owners insult their staff and chief clientele. Not the fury that fizzles out a few days after the “outrage” exhausts the news cycle.
No. Settlers.
Xenophobia and black on black scorn.
His resentment for the status quo for blacks is a constant state of mind, a daily preoccupation which has thrust the African back onto the stage after five years since his last solo show.
“Peace Amongst Africans. War against the children and children of Jan Van Riebeeck.”