A few days ago, I posted an online article about how a hotel in Sandton has robots serving its patrons as waitresses. The commentary that ensured…
Ezekiel Kekana

Ezekiel Kekana
I love reading and writing and I started this blog, the EW Blog to share my writing and the books that I am reading with everyone.
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Book ReviewsNon-FictionPan Macmillan South Africa
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Book ReviewsJacana Media
Predator Politics| Laying Bare the Contested Allegations Which Have Exposed DD Mabuza’s Predator Side
DD Mabuza’s rise to the deputy president position has earned him respect as one of the smartest politicians in the country. To his political allies, this rise showed…
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Johannesburg and New York are similar, concrete jungles. Big cities of dreams where hustling is the name of the game. Joburg is a city where people get…
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Book ReviewsNon-FictionPan Macmillan South Africa
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man| An Antidote for White Racists
The year 2020 has been one that has forced people across the world to unite in the fight against two pandemics. First, it is the new…
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Book ReviewsFictionKwela BooksNB Publishers
Paradise in Gaza| A Spiritual Ode that Shines the Light on Present Challenges Rooted in the Past
It is often said that good things come to those who wait. And boy oh boy, we have waited 12 years before feeding our hungry reading…
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Book ReviewsNB PublishersNon-Fiction
Magenge We Need To Talk|A Clarion Call for Black Men to do Away with Amasimba
I believe the word ‘amasimba’(shit) reoccurs in this book more than all the books I have read this year, put together. Just to put it into perspective, I…
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Book ReviewsFictionJacana Media
Scatterlings| An Intriguing and Beautifully Crafted Tale of History, Family and Bitterness
The evilness of the white system rule like colonialism and apartheid in South Africa was that it destroyed many souls, marriages, livelihoods, and bonds among couples…
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Book ReviewsFictionJacana Media
Those Who Live in Cages| Laying Bare the Social Ills Caging Coloured Women in Eldorado Park
One of the most amazing things after reading a novel is the warm feeling inside of immediately craving a sequel. This highlights the good quality of…
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Book ReviewsMemoirsNB Publishers
The Price and Prize of Greatness| An Inspiring Tale on How to Rise Above Your Defects and Live your Dreams
Whenever Kaizer Chiefs’ supporters reminisce about ‘operation vat allas’, that is the season which the team won every cup competition that was on offer back in 2001. The…
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Book ReviewsNon-FictionPan Macmillan South Africa
Critical But, Stable: A Breathtakingly Well-Crafted Tale Depicting the Cost of Living a ‘Perfect Life’
Spoiler warning: The following review discloses important twists in “Critical But, Stable.” Breathtakingly, unputdownable, stunning, page-turner, entertaining, poignant, and profound, those are some of the superlatives…
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Book ReviewsNon-FictionPan Macmillan South Africa
The Whistleblowers: Celebrating and Honouring Courageous and Self-Less South Africans
Moses Phakoe, Bianca Goodson, Mosilo Mothepu, Imraahn Ismail-Mukaddam, Thabiso Zulu, Jimmy Mohlala, Michelle Mitchley, Simphiwe Mayisela, ‘James Nogu’, Brain Currin, and Doctor Radebe. If you are…
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Book ReviewsMelinda Ferguson BooksNB PublishersNon-Fiction
Unf*ck Yourself-Unf*ck the World: A Practical Self-Help Guide on How to Reclaim One’s Being
The orange cover of the book and an uncouth title are the pull factors that led me to read the latest work of Kagiso Msimango. Forgive me,…
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When it was announced that Iman Rappetti will be returning to the radio airwaves a few months back, my heart was full of joy and happiness.…
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Book ReviewsKwela BooksMemoirsNon-Fiction
Heart of a Strong Woman: Xoliswa Nduneni-Ngema’s Life Journey of Heartbreak to Healing
If there was Twitter and Facebook back in 1991, Xoliswa Nduneni-Ngema would have trended the whole Friday of December 20th that year and the weekend that followed.…
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Book ReviewsMemoirsPan Macmillan South Africa
All Rise: A Clarion Call to Africans to Use their Constitutional Rights to Hold Those in Power to Account
Ntate Dikgang Moseneke, our deputy chief justice, our freedom fighter, our arbitrator, our law teacher, our father, and our esteemed jurist. Ntate Moseneke is so many…
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Book ReviewsKwela BooksNon-FictionReligionReligion
Mothers of the Nation: Praising the Motherly Role Played by the ‘Darlings of Heaven’ on God’s Children on Earth
In villages, townships, and cities in South Africa, you are bound to cross paths with Manyano women draped in their red, white, and black colours and…
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Book ReviewsFictionKwela Books
The Fall- A Page-Turning Fiction Exposing the State’s Violent Behaviour in Shielding the Powerful elite to Account
Upon receiving my copy of Jen Thorpe’s latest offering, The Fall. One question which truly raced through my mind was, is it the fall of patriarchy and…
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Tumelo Buthelezi is a literary-works creative and a founding member of the Ink Gallery, a movement that promotes an interest in reading. In July of 2018, he released his debut book titled, The Last Sentence published by BlackBird Books. In this interview with EW Blog editor, Ezekiel Kekana, Tumelo reflects on his debut book, what inspired the title, and he has a strong message to the perpetrators of violence directed to women and children.
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The month of August has been a very gruesome one for many South Africans. The scourge of gender-based violence and femicide continues to dominate news headlines…
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Book ReviewsKwela BooksNon-Fiction
Femicide In South Africa: A Well-Researched Account Examining the Media’s Culpability in the Battle Against Femicide
Rosina Mogothlane, Mpho Kekana, Lerato Mabuse, Mmabatho Ledwaba, Dineo Lekalalala, Suzzane Kekana, (all from my own village in Zebediela) Eudy Simelane, Valencia Farmer, Susan Rhode, Charmaine…