From a son to a MOTHER:

From a son to a MOTHER:

Your words are beautiful,
resounding and provocative. 
Your words are committed to your course,
to your people, your community, 
your country and most certainly your readers. 

You demand your readers to think.
To empathise and reconcile with their own
privileges. 

Privileges.
Yes, I said privileges 
because they tend to look down on the people you write about. 

Many people look down upon domestic workers, mothers of
children and specifically mothers of black children. 

You have ways with words… 

Take for instance the story Leaving, it’s a beautiful piece. 
It is both descriptive and metaphorical. In it, leaving is both an escape and an act of love.
The piece leaves the reader to think, empathise and bemoan the realities of being a mother and displaced. It does this all at one go. 

This is a letter from a son to a MOTHER. 
Siyabulela MAMA. 
uliGorha!

*Sindiwe Magona, writer of note from Gugulethu. The piece Leaving is the first short story in her anthology titled: Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night.