Can Themba

**Daniel Canodoise "Can" Themba** (Khotavuxika 1924 - 8 Ndzhati 1967) a a ri mutsari wa switori swo koma wa Afrika Dzonga.

## Masungulo ya vutomi
Themba u velekiwe le Marabastad, ekusuhi ni le dorobeni ra Pitori, kambe u tsale ntirho wakwe wo tala le Sophiatown, e Joni, eAfrika Dzonga. Malabrastad. Doroba leri ri mbundzumuxiwile ehansi ka Nawu wa Mintlawa ya Rixaka wa nkarhi wa xihlawuhlawu, lowu a wu avela mintlawa ya tinxaka ku ya etindhawini letintshwa. A a ri xichudeni le Fort Hare College, laha a kumeke digri ya Xinghezi (hi risiva) na diploma ya vudyondzisi.

Endzhaku ko rhurhela edorobeni ra Sophiatown, u ringete ku tsala switori swokoma. Themba u nghenele mphikizano wo sungula wa switori swo koma wa Drum (ku nga magazini wa vantima va le madorobeni lowu vulavulaka ngopfu hi vukambisisi hi swifaniso), laha a hluleke.

Hi ku famba ka nkarhi u tirhe eka Drum, laha a veke un'wana wa "Majaha ya Drum," kun'we na Henry Nxumalo, Bloke Modisane, Todd Matshikiza, Stan Motjuwadi na Casey Motsisi. Hi ku famba ka nkarhi va hlanganisiwe na Lewis Nkosi na Nat Nakasa. Ntlawa lowu a wu hi xivuvulelo lexi nge: "Hanya hi xihatla, lova wa ha ri ntsongo naswona u ri ni ntsumbu wosaseka."

Xiphemu lexi a xi hlawulekisa Drum a kuri vuswikoti byo kambisisa. Xin'wana xa swikongomelo swa kona a ku ri ku paluxa ntiyiso na kupfumaleka ka kuringana e hansi ka mfumo wa xihlawuhlawu. Themba u endle xiboho xo vona ndlela leyi tikereke to basa a ti ta angula ha yona loko a ya etikerekeni to vona, tani hi leswi a a ri munhu wa ntima.
 

## Ku rhurela e Swazini
Ku karhateka loku kulaka hi swipimelo swa xihlawuhlawu, ku n'wi vangele leswaku a rhurhela eSwazini laha a tirheke kona tanihi mudyondzisi. Hi 1966, u vuriwe "mukomanisi ximfumo, " hikwalaho ka swona mintirho yakwe yi yirisiwile eAfrika Dzonga. Tibuku takwe ti sungule kumeka hi xitalo eka malembe ya va - 1980 hi ku humesiwa ka tibuku timbirhi leti nga - The Will to Die (1972) na The World of Can Themba (1985). 

Eka switori swakwe, u hlamusele ku karhateka ka vanhu va vantima la va dyondzeke e yunivhesiti na swona vahanya e madorobheni; naswona va tsandzeka ku humelerisa vuswikoti bya vona hi kwalaho ka swipimelo swo ya hi nghohe swa mfumo wa xihlawuhlawu, na swona va thlela va ringeta ku ringanisa vutomi bya le dorobhen na byale ma tiko xikaya.

## Rifu
U lovile hikwalaho ka vuvabyi bya mbilu eka kaya rakwe ra le Mazini hi 8 Ndhzati 1967.

## Thlela u vona

* The suit, xitori xokoma hi Can Themba.
* The suit (Xifaniso xa filimi hi 2016), xifaniso xo koma xa filimi lexi tsariweke hi kuya hi xitori xo koma xa Can Themba, na swona xitsariwe no kongomisiwa hi Jarryd Coetsee.

## Kuthlomiwa tinsiva

* Risiva ra Ikhamanga ra le Afrika Dzonga hi silivere, hikwalaho ka "Ku humelela loku xiyekaka ka vutsari, ku hoxa xandla eka xivandla xa vutsari bya vukambisisi ni ku lwela vandla ro lulama ni ra xidemokrati eAfrika Dzonga." (Uthlomiwe risiva endzhaku ka ku lova) 

## Tibuku

* *Deep Cuts*: Switori swo hambana - hambana swa Can Themba, Alex la Guma & Bessie Head / Mululamisi: Betty Napper; muhleri: Peter Esterhuysen, Maskew Miller, Longman, 1993, ISBN 0-636-01896-2
* *The Suit hi Can*Themba; Hi ku pfumelelana na Chris van Wyk; Vufanisi Renée Koch. Viva Books, 1994. ISBN 1-874932-14-X.
* The Will to Die / Can Themba; Yi hlawuriwe hi Donald Stuart na Roy Holland, Heinemann, 1972. ISBN 0-435-90104-4
* World of Can Themba: matsalwa la mahlawuriweke hi Can Themba, leyi lulamisiweke hi Essop Patel, Ravan Press, 1985. ISBN 0-86975-145-X
* Requiem for Sophiatown. London: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 9780143185482

## Mintshaho

## Swihlovo

** Mike Nicol, *Good-looking Corpse: World of Drum – Jazz and Gangsters, Hope and Defiance in the Townships of South Africa*, Secker & Warburg, 1991, 
** Anthony Adams & Ken Durham (eds), *Writing from South Africa*, Cambridge University Press, , contains "Mob Passion" by D. Can Themba.

## Tindhawu ta le handle

* Xana Tiko Ra Themba Ri Nga Swi Kota Ku Teka Goza?
* " Ku tihungasa a hi ku vulavurisana ka manguva lawa ka" vhidiyo ehenhleni ka "Ku ntsena " na Peter Xikwembu na Andrew Dickson, The Guardian, 25 May 2012."