![]() ![]() In particular I was interested in how the gay black community survived in that environment. “I was really interested in exploring how these lines were blurred. I got to understand that the lines that were drawn under apartheid were blurred when it came to some communities. ![]() Because I come from so many different cultures in South Africa, I got to know all of South Africa. I grew up in a township and I went to historically white schools. Her personal quest made her interested in other similar stories. But while others were still celebrating their new freedoms, Kagiso was seeking the right to be herself fully. She had come from a home in Atteridgeville, in the townships north of Pretoria, where her parents had worked hard and risked their lives for the day Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and into the presidency of South Africa. As a student of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Cape Town in the 1990s, Kagiso Lesego Molope was living in a country emerging into a new democracy in the years after the end of the apartheid regime. ![]()
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