MULTI-TALENTED Student Zoleka Zekhethelo Madolo (24), released her second book “Killed by My Precious Rose of Sharon”. Zoleka was born in a bustling town Stanger situated in lower Tugela, Kwa- Zulu Natal, and she and her family later relocated to the small town of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape.
The book is based on how a man can be abused by a woman. “I was inspired by a picture that I saw three years back and then gender-based violence came up, but it had to be towards men,” she explains.
Zoleka plans to merge her latest book and her foundation (Basikelele kids foundation) as a way of encouraging literature, but it’s also about giving back to the community.
” My challenges so far are the perspective of some individuals that I am somehow taking sides through this book, gender-based violence is a problem and it is not something to joke around, it is a serious matter and a big problem for everyone,” she says.
Writing this book has taught her so much about herself and her capabilities as a novelist and hoping that it will reach as many people as possible.
She believes that writing is both spiritual and therapeutic, you don’t have to be in a certain mood or anything like that. It comes naturally and once you start writing, you feel a lot more different after, as if something has been taken off your shoulders.
“To aspiring writers, there’s no specific mood or time to write, write whatever it is that comes to your mind because it’s never invalid. If you going to keep procrastinating to achieve your dream, do what you can with what you have and never look back or doubt yourself,” she concluded.
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