Siphokazi Jonas at the performance lecture From Broken Bones to Healing Hearts My Journey with Sarah Baartman

On the 14th February Siphokazi Jonas was with Dr Diana Ferrus  appearing in the work 

 “From Broken Bones to Healing Hearts: My Journey with Sarah Baartmanโ€

 The Performance Lecture was held at the Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.

Internationally renowned poet and storyteller Diana Ferrus delivered a performance lecture about her spiritual and emotional journey with Sarah Baartman and how she got to write her famous poem โ€œIโ€™ve Come to Take You Homeโ€ which contributed to the repatriation of Sarah Baartmanโ€™s remains to South Africa from the Musรฉum National dโ€™Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France in 2002.

ย Siphokazi Jonas is a renowned South African poet and she performed before the State of the Nationย Address in Southย Africaโ€™s parliament in 2021.

 Both Diana Ferrus and Siphokazi Jonas are Poetry Africaโ€™s Featured Poets presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Pictures by photographer Karen Winter.


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