Sipho seepe biography of william

Where did you grow up?
I was born in Soweto in 1959 and grew up there, the eldest of three boys.

My father was murdered when I was nine.

Sipho seepe biography of william

I don't know the exact circumstances; it was too painful to inquire about. My mother supported us by working in a hospital - the Brenthurst Clinic in Park Lane. My grandfather died violently too - I remember accompanying my grandmother to the spot where he had been killed to clean his blood from the street.

Then one of my brothers was stabbed to death in 1985 when I was in America.

Soweto has always been a violent place and the political turf battles in the seventies and eighties fed off that violence.

Sipho seepe biography of william shakespeare

Now criminals are running amok and I can see parallels between the two eras. Politicians with their bodyguards try to deny that crime is getting worse, but this is a subject everyone is talking about. Earlier this year my brother Jimmy, the political editor of City Pres