House of Siza

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Wesley: [00:00:00] Hey, greeting everybody. Uh  and you're tuned into my podcast Wesley peppers, art Lexica, which is brought to you by spudcaster and baobulb. Uh, before we get started, um, just a big up to Jowahri Hlophe for coming through last week. Thanks my sister. It was really fun speaking to her. Uh, we'll definitely be keeping in touch with regards to, botaki magazine, um, is a really interesting initiative.

[00:00:30] Um, and you know, like I said, let's, it's pretty interesting. And then we'll see how it goes, man. We'll definitely be having her on in possibly two months time or so. Um, so keep your ears out for that. Uh, remember the art giveaway is up for grabs. Uh, remember it's still only available for my south African based listeners and it’s a money thing, it's a money thing.

[00:00:51] Uh, I, yeah, I say that every week, but remember all you have to do is like, subscriber or comment on this kind of episode and you can win yourself an original artwork done by myself. And, yeah. So moving on to today's episode. We're talking to the beautiful Siza Nkosi. We are recording live in her offices in her office

[00:01:08] here at the Sol Plaatjie university in Kimberley. And, um, she's very excited, so I'm glad to have her, uh, here, with me today. Um, so we're gonna be talking about, um, well, three things in general. Um, we were talking about her writing, of course. Um, I know she's involved with the Poetry Africa coming up pretty soon. Um, and, um, she's like creative or she's a lecturer at the university.

[00:01:29] So we touched base a little bit about it's about the academic side of. The writing world, I guess, post COVID. Um, talk about, um, there's a, there's also a touching thing for people coming in to Kimberly about the Sol Plaatjie brand. So it's kind of a, I don't want to give too much away. So I'm just going to ask her that straight up before we start or rather, when we start.

[00:01:48] So, and we, you're talking a little bit about, uh, uh, uh, her company house of siza and her projects and what she's up to and all of that. So look forward to, that's going to be really cool, man. Uh, and like I said, we are recording live. Um, so its actually my second one in 63 episodes, so that's really cool.

[00:02:05] Um, yeah. So anyway, um, remember, I'll speak to you after this. 

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[00:02:29] Wesley: [00:02:29] Okay. Uh, Siza Nkosi. Uh, welcome.

[00:02:32] Siza: [00:02:32] Thank you for having me Wesley. Hello everybody

[00:02:36] Wesley: [00:02:36] Yeah. Thanks for coming through, man. Yeah, let's get, let's get straight into it, man. Um, so just to everybody, just to create a scene, um, we are sitting in your office at the sol plaatjie, uh, university, university of Sol Plaatjie. Um, we spoke a little bit of a, um, actually you, um, oh, was, do you want to do the poem now?

[00:03:00] Siza: [00:03:00] I don't know. Um, let’s talk. 

[00:03:04] Wesley: [00:03:04] Yeah, absolutely. Listeners like she actually, just read, like a very, very beautiful piece just before we started. I just thought it would be really cool to have it on the show too. So yeah. Anyway, uh, now as, as we spoke, like a bit of air man, which is something.

[00:03:19] So my parents is from here. I grew up here. Um, you know, it's very much I still regard this place as home. Um, Those, um, the names sol plaatjie, I think as a...