Chocolates for my wife
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Matshikiza, Todd, “Chocolates for my wife”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/10391
- Title
- Chocolates for my wife
- Creator
- Matshikiza, Todd
- Description
- Banned in South Africa by the Publications Control Board in 1964.
- Abstract
- Chocolates for My Wife by Todd Matshikiza is a reflective and autobiographical work that combines memoir, social commentary, and literary observation. Written with Matshikiza’s characteristic wit and insight, the text explores themes of personal relationships, urban life, exile, and cultural identity, situating individual experience within the broader social and political realities of mid-twentieth-century South Africa. The corrected author’s version offers valuable insight into Matshikiza’s voice as a writer and intellectual, as well as his engagement with music, journalism, and everyday life under apartheid and in exile.
- edition
- Corrected author’s version
- Subject
- Matshikiza, Todd, 1921-1968 -- Biography
- Musicians, Black -- Biography
- Matshikiza Family
- South African authors — 20th century
- Apartheid — South Africa — Social conditions
- Exiles — South Africa
- Race relations — South Africa
- Cultural identity — South Africa
- African literature — South Africa
- Format
- Date Issued
- 1961
- Language
- English
- Type
- Text
- Book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/39873
- Location - Physical Location
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
- Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator
- MS 20 068
- Extent
- 119 leaves
- Rights Holder
- Matshikiza, Todd
- useGuidelines
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
- Item sets
- Todd Matshikiza Collection
- Hierarchies
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African Heritage Collections
- African Heritage Collections (149 items)
- Clans, Tribes and Nations (5 items)
- Images of African Collections (66 items)
- South African Chiefs, Kings and Rulers (30 items)
- African Literary and Intellectual Works Collection (51 items)
- Henry Masila Ndawo (10 items)
- John Knox Bokwe (1 item)
- Nyoka, Malcolm Everitt Mlungiseleli (12 items)
- S.E.K. Mqhayi Collection (1 item)
- Todd Matshikiza (27 items)
- King Kong Collection (21 items)
- Alan Paton letters to Todd Matshikiza (5 items)
- African Heritage Collections (149 items)
Matshikiza, Todd, “Chocolates for my wife”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/10391
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