If a Shakespearean actor, a Christian missionary and an isiXhosa praise
poet walked into a bar, their conversation would sound something like
the poems in this collection.
Siphokazi Jonas is a weaver of seemingly discordant worlds; growing up
in an Afrikaans dorpie during the transition years of a newly
democratic South Africa and going on annual holidays to a village made
this a necessity. Her work as a spoken word poet often fuses poetry,
theatre and film, and she brings this genre-mixing to the page by using
the intsomi form to weave the narrative of her poems together.
Jonas’s poems explore the impact of linguistic and cultural alienation
as a black learner in former Model C schools in the 1990s and early
2000s. She is not only a referee of the internal war between isiXhosa
and English within her, but she pieces together a language for leaving
and returning between the past and the present, and a possible future.
Her poems ask questions about navigating tradition, religion, migration
between rural and urban spaces, and how families choose to make their
own culture. Weeping Becomes a River is a timely reflection on the cost
of being the early test subjects of South Africa’s democratic project.
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