03/06/2025
AVHATAKALI NETSHISAULU'S LIFE CELEBRATION
BOOK: 'Avhatakali Afrika Is Fifty!
Compilers: Mathatha Tsedu, and Dzudzanani Mulovhedzi-Netshisaulu
PUBLISHER: Vhakololo Press
DATE: 3 June 2024
PRICE: Free (see link below)
Avhatakali Netshisaulu was born on June 03, 1975. He grew up into a bubbly, intelligent, witty and focused individual. He was a goal driven young man, and in whatever he did, whether it was running the long distance races, his academic work, or his businesses, he excelled.
When he was brutally taken away from us, the pain was immense. It was a pain shared by a shocked nation that rallied to assist and comfort us. What pained us even more was that in losing him, we also lost, at a public level, who he really was.
He became the posterboy of victims of crime, of greed, and a symbol of the reverse GBV. We agonised for years about how we could reclaim him back to who he really was. This book is an attempt to paint a picture of who Avhatakali really was. I t is a story of his life told by a myriad of people who came into contact with him from Day One of his life.
It is the closest aggregation of his character as a human being and it embodies our attempt to reclaim him back from victim to a life that had its own character and vibrancy.
– Mathatha Tsedu and Dzudzanani Mulovhedzi Netshisaulu
https://theafricanmirror.africa/lifestyle/literature/avhatakali-afrika-is-fifty/
