User talk:Zipho2015

Ziphozakhe Hlobo Born: 1991 February 05 Lives in: Johannesburg, South Africa

This young creative prides herself as being co-writer of Mamela, a theatre production that won the Standard Bank Ovation Award in 2014 and was part of the Afrovibes tour in 2014 as well. The production is a verbatim theatre genre, which emerges from her home province, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

As a poet, she has performed in the South African Land Act remembrance at the Cape Town Convention Center in 2013, at the Afrovibes Festival in Northern Stage, England in 2014, at the launch of the anthology, Home Is Where The Mic Is in 2015 in Cape Town, at the Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kenya in 2015 and other various poetry platforms in Cape Town.

Her work mostly discusses the personal narrative which she believes always intersects with the collective narrative. In that, she delivers a strong feminine voice which encompasses the politics of being a young black woman in South Africa. She also and deals with socio-political contexts and social justice, having been part of a public art intervention about the Marikana Massacre in 2014.

As a young entreprenuer, she runs her movement turned company, Radikal Xpression. In it, she works with different artists in the spectrum of music and poetry to bring forth delightful spoken word shows. This company has produced many spoken word shows including Women Narratives, which showcased at the Zabalaza Theatre Festival under Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement. Its other creations include #EnkosiMama and Isidlo Sentliziyo, both poetic plays that were staged at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective in Cape Town. Radikal Xpression also has one public art intervention under its name, which was part of the City Walks in Cape Town on Africa Month, 2015.

Her blog is http://ziphozakhe.wordpress.com