Meet Zukiswa and Her Book, The Madams

Zukiswa Wanner is the author of the hilarious comedy of manners, The Madams, which is a featured book of Durban’s Time of the Writer festival this year.

She was born in Lusaka, Zambia to an exiled South African father and a Zimbabwean mother. After Zimbabwean independence, she lived in Zimbabwe and was schooled there. She attended Hawai’i Pacific University in Hawaii for her undergraduate studies, and now resides and works in what she describes as the cultural capital of the world – Johannesburg, of course!

A sneak preview of The Madams:

Thandi loves her life. She loves her cute son Hintsa, her witty husband Mandla, her comfortably challenging work with the tourism board, and her best friends Nosizwe and Lauren. But she has to admit – it’s tough being Superwoman in South Africa today. Try being the perfect traditional wife and African mother at home, the perfect promotable black woman at work, and the perfect foil for her “Benetton” friends – one black and Xhosa, one white and English! Thandi admits defeat and decides she needs that great South African bourgeois accessory: a maid. And since she doesn’t have the heart to boss about a ‘sister’ in her own home, she decides it must be a white maid.

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Book Details

• The Madams
  by Zukiswa Wanner
  EAN: 9781770070585
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