Event Date
17 October 2018
Venue
Exclusive Books, Hyde Park
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Penguin Random House invites you to the book launch of And Then Mama Said :
- Date: Wednesday, 17 October 2018
- Time: 18:00 for 18:30
- Venue: Exclusive Books, Hyde Park
- Address: Shop U30, Hyde Park Corner, cnr Jan Smuts Avenue & William Nicol Drive, Sandton, Johannesburg
- RSVP: events@exclusivebooks.co.za or 011 798 0180
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About the Book:
Tumi Morake modelled her public persona on her mother, a charming and contentious woman who used her big, bold voice to say what others were afraid to utter. It’s the personality that Tumi took on stage in the mostly male space of stand-up comedy, and the one that gave her the courage to join a white, Afrikaans radio station and comment about apartheid on air.
But there’s only so much you can find out about Tumi from the stage, the screen and the internet. And Then Mama Said… is the voice of Tumi in private, as well as a behind-thescenes perspective of a pioneering South African star who has been both deeply loved and viciously hated by her audiences.
Tumi gets frank about the race row at Jacaranda FM; the Jaguar car accident that cyber bullies said she deserved; the body-shaming she endured on the set of Our Perfect Wedding; and her tumultuous relationship with her beloved husband. Throughout her story, she carries the voice of her mother, and with it the indispensable life lessons that made her who she is today.