Janet Rethabile Zilila

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Rethabile Zilila is a multidisciplinary scholar and artist – a performance poet, specialist wellness counsellor, and an emerging social scientist. She began her professional life in the engineering sector working as a design project engineer after graduating with a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Central University of Technology – Free State (CUT-FS). She has since undertaken three postgraduate qualifications; including two BA honours degrees in Psychology and Drama Therapy, and completed coursework for a MA in Health Sociology, all from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her transition from STEM to the social sciences is a testament of her passion for education, justice, and healing.

Winning Poet’s Winning Poem – Rethabile Zilila

Unsilencing UFS
(In the Spirit of Solomon)
Loss sets in like something new,
Carrying the ghost of you
Like a shadow I must wear
Each time the sun runs for cover.
So, how dare you creep up on me like that?!
Is it your intention to trip my heart every time
It masters the sprint of loving you?
Black. I call you home but you are hell-bent
On leaving me bare.
Black.
I call you home!
But you are hell bent on leaving me
Bare,
I am searching for my pride
Among the race at Shimla,
But when kicks come beg...

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