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SA author Zakes Mda wins share of $1.5bn in AI copyright lawsuit

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By Zakes Mda
| Head Topics
📆 2025/10/08 22:30:00 Zakes Mda News South African Author, Copyright, Lawsuit 📆 2025/10/08 22:30:00 📰 TimesLIVE ⏱ Reading Time: 160 sec. here 10 min. at publisher 📊 Quality Score: News: 88% Publisher: 59% Author Zakes Mda. South African author Zakes Mda has confirmed that he is among the writers set to benefit from a landmark $1.5bn settlement reached between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and a group of authors whose books were allegedly used without permission to train AI systems.
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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection: Staying Power

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By Zakes Mda
| criterion.com
The story of Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2020) unfolds through poetry. The poetry of images and words—the interplay of light and shadow, and the lyricism of the narration. It ensnares us right from the opening shots, of a horse going through an aesthetically beautiful yet obviously traumatic experience at the hands of blanketed Basotho men and women.
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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

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By Zakes Mda
| criterion.com
With a poet’s eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her own death and to be buried alongside her ancestors.
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