My name is Alude Mahali. I am a 21 year old girl doing my Honours in Drama at Rhodes University in South Africa. In a weeks time I will be putting on a production of Shirlene Holmes' A Lady and a Woman at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown South Africa. I wanted to say that it has been my privilege to put on such an honest and heartfelt piece. I would like to say that Dr. Holmes is my own personal 'sheroe' and I can only hope that I succeed in capturing the beauty, poetry and believability of the piece just as Dr. Holmes wrote it.

Thank you so much for your brilliant mind, mama,

Alude Mahali
South Africa