Mohale Mashigo

Mohale Mashigo (born Kgomotso Carol Mashigo; 1983) (and also known by her stage name Black Porcelain) is a South African singer-songwriter, novelist, and former radio presenter. Her debut novel The Yearning (Pan Macmillan, 2016) won the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Debut Writing and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018. She lives in Cape Town.

Quotes

 * I do like this idea of time. For me there is no before or after. It’s all during. It’s just a bunch of “durings.” I don’t think of myself as someone in the past, I’m a person going through something. I do like to see how these “durings” influence the future.
 * Kathie Birat and Mohale Mashigo, “Mohale Mashigo interviewed by Kathie Birat”, 23 July 2021,

Intruders

 * Koko and I somehow had the ability to walk alongside our hurt and disappointment; we never let it get ahead of us or lead us astray.’
 * Intruders. Pp8


 * How could he possibly describe anything when the world around him had lost its colour
 * Intruders. Pp27


 * I birthed myself; it was bloody and painful but now I’m standing on the roof of a city as something new.
 * Intruders. Pp150


 * The city is like that: it loves new and shiny things; which also leads it to be a graveyard of previously beautiful relics.
 * Intruders. Pp156


 * Things that lurk in the shadows do not like the light. People get used to one tiny light and begin to seek out more of it in the world and in themselves – that’s how the light liberates us.
 * Intruders. Pp159