Zikhona Valela

Surreal. 31 March 2022.

@blaqfli Used his doctorate title to legitimise lies 🥴

@valavoosh Cool corporate kids get whatever they like…

Now why would Jonathan Ball Publishers actually publish this book??

@buhleh__ Agreed, and essentially the middleman handling logistics. But they didn’t commission and publish. The author’s deal is with TMP.

@valavoosh Tracey McDonald Publishers is distributed by JBP.

@marcia_breeze Market for rage bait.

@valavoosh There's a market for it, maybe? Checkpoint has already had the author twice to speak about the book

@ontie_ODM This is why it should have been a memoir. That would have probably led to a more meaningful engagement with the book because so many people live with a mother/father wound.

@valavoosh It's wild and unfounded. It becomes a hearsay so to speak because there is no scientific evidence to prove the claims. No evidencial backing whatsoever.

@ontie_ODM @mx_mokgoroane Melinda Ferguson

@valavoosh @mx_mokgoroane Who is the publisher again?

Mam' Zodwa moved mountains for me to see MaNgutyana. I'm glad to know she's finally sharing her story.

@obinze_akhumzee Congratulations!

The proofs are in and the cover is done. My monograph, based on my PhD research on disabled rural Xhosa men, will be out in August as the 4th instalment in a masculinities series with Emerald Publishing.

@siinaaloo @naledimashishi That is so...

@valavoosh @naledimashishi There are even companies (that I will not name) buying the book for their staff book clubs 🙂

@generaltuck Soulless.

@valavoosh For sales from the affirming older people. Sales.

In 1949, Ida became the founding president of the ANCWL which rebranded from the ANC Women's Section. Unlike the Section, the League was a far more radical iteration of the women's branch of the mother body. Under Mntwana the women propelled mass action in the era of the defiance campaign in urban and rural areas. This photograph depicts women marching in Durban and they're led by Dorothy Nyembe, Lilian Ngoyi and Florence Mkhize.

I don't think we can talk about the Women's march nor the role of women in the 50s without the mention of Ida Mntwana, who tends to be overlooked. Her date of birth is cited as 5 August 1903. She cut her death in worker movements and the African National Congress Youth League shortly after the organisation extended membership to women. So she was in her 40s years old when she joined the organisation.

9 August 2026 will mark the 70th anniversary of the women's march. The organisation that galvanised 20000 women to march on the union buildings (frame 2), the Federation of South African Women, was launched on this day in 1954 as seen in the first image. Both 📸: Eli Weinberg

@khanyisile The EB website places them under "Published by" (although they could have just destroyed the copies), so I think its worth correcting.

@valavoosh jonathan ball distributes books as well.

*tracey macdonald

@mashoata And the publisher was like, "Oh look: a cash grab!" smh.

@valavoosh "Boy child left behind " was a social media troll by women. Brother said ,hold my beer as I write this book😔

@BlackRose__ZA Once bitten, twice shy!

@valavoosh They are back on the 30th of April, this is not a drill!!!😭😭🔥

What month is it now, @SABC3Topbilling? Hmmm?

Those topics are subjective and will rely on individual experiences because we can call in and speak of our experiences of sitting in the back seat of my man's car while his mom rides in the front or whatever. A book isn't. This is was irresponsible. If he'd written a memoir titled, "My mother hates me," then that would be a different story.

@valavoosh The same way Metro FM chooses those mid morning topics. SM.