230. The Phenomenon of The Soft Life

<p style="font-weight:400;">The Phenomenon of ‘the soft life’ has taken the country by storm finding most of its expression on mainly social media. It is about the glaring ‘need’ for young women to be financially taken care of by a man. In this episode I am in conversation with Lebohang Masango author of the book Soft Life about exactly what this phenomenon is about.  We cover some of the stories of the characters in her book and how no matter how different they are they all seem to gravitate towards a soft life that is provided for by a man predominately but also how they strive to provide the very soft life for themselves. </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Bio</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Lebohang Masango earned her Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is a writer and an award-winning poet. She is also the award-winning author of children’s book, M_p_u_m_i_’s_ _M_a_g_i_c_ _B_e_a_d_s_ _(David Philip, 2018), which is available in all 11 of South Africa’s official languages. The book has been awarded the 2018 South African Independent Publishers Award for Children’s Books, 2019 South African Literary Award for Children’s Literature, the 2019 Exclusive Books IBBY SA Award for Best Writer and a 2020 gold Pandering Advertising Award in the Publication Design – Whole Publication category. She has co-authored G_r_o_w_ _t_o_ _B_e_ _G_r_e_a_t_:_ _A_w_e_s_o_m_e_ _A_f_r_i_c_a_n_ _A_c_h_i_e_v_e_r_s_ _with Dr Judy Dlamini (Sifiso Publishers, 2020) and M_p_u_m_i_ _a_n_d_ _J_a_b_u_’s_ _M_a_g_i_c_a_l_ _D_a_y_ _(David Philip, 2020) with Professor Claudine Storbeck, the Director for the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand and it has been awarded a 2021 silver Pendoring Advertising Award in the Publication Design – Whole Publication category. She has written N_a_n_a_n_a_ _B_o_s_e_l_e_s_e_l_e_ _for Wimpy and Ethnikids’ ‘Our Stories, Your Language’ campaign, co-authored O_ _