“We will continue to have problems like all countries do have problems‚ but not as serious as these ones where a president for instance subverts the constitution and hijacks democracy and so on. Mda said the country had a very strong judiciary and a strong press. “The fact that a lot of the things that happened are exposed and people are not just silent about them they protest about them‚ they talk about them‚ they write about them.” Mda said what made him optimistic was that the country had a very strong civil society. I think a number of things will self-correct.”

“I think these are just the pangs of birth. When asked by an interviewer: “Where do we go from here as South Africans?”‚ Mda replied he was a very optimistic person. Mda‚ a professor at the University of Ohio in the US‚ was speaking at Jacaranda FM’s The Complimentary Breakfast Show on Friday to share a story behind his latest book Little Suns. He is currently a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature. He has won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays. Zakes Mda, legally Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (born 1948), is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Legendary South African author Zakes Mda has expressed optimism about South Africa’s future and likened the current problems facing the country as “just the pangs of birth”. Little Suns 1st Edition is written by Zakes Mda and published by Random House Struik.

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