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Siphokazi Jonas is a South African poet, playwright, performer, and producer known for her exploration of cultural identity, gender-based violence, and linguistic diversity through various art forms. She has gained both national and international recognition for her contributions to literature and the performing arts.

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I am in many ways a product of the power of support and collaboration.

I am encouraging younger artists to keep connecting and building together no matter where they are.

The modernising aspect is important because that is where the creativity lies.

We are accompanying one another to make home using storytelling and it’s a communal act to make home as Africans understand it.

Folklore is about improvisation, so I am trying to bring that back.

My intention is to recover what has been but also recreate.

This production has been borne out of frustration.

I’m hoping to do some television writing as well.

I hope that my story encourages and energises you to share your voice and story with us once again.

My works explores our relationship with each other and our world and I often to reimagine what better might be.

When I am commissioned to write for a client, I find ways to weave my South African influence in the work.

I want us to achieve our own Harry Potters in African storytelling and have our brothers and sisters represented in them.

As a writer, I wondered how I could speak to that particular void.

I didn’t believe in my abilities as an artist sooner.

How can a poem stop a rapist from raping? It can’t.

I remember feeling so fearful, overwhelmed and when it came to writing, at a real loss.

I think my love of art has been with me because my parents were in a choir.

That was certainly what felt like a once in a lifetime experience.

But my feminist framework is about centring a young girl, who then becomes a woman, making her complicated, making her push the narrative over just being a victim of circumstance.

It is impossible to do this work alone. We create our industry.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Siphokazi Jonas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.