If you want to investigate the author of Cion, here are some resources that can help.

Interviews

Zakes Mda recently did a two-part interview with WOUB Radio.  You can listen to the first part here and the second part here.

There was also an interview with the author published in the Fall 2005 issue of the Missouri Review.  You can read it in the Electronic Journal Center here.

Biographies and Critical Summaries

Black Literature Criticism (see this article here)

Contemporary Authors (see this article here)

Contemporary Literary Criticism (see this article here)

Dictionary of Literary Biography (see this article here)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (see this article here)

 There is also an article about him in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, which we have in the 2nd floor reference collection (Ref. PR 9080 .A52 E53 2005x).  (Note that this article is listed under his full name, Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda.)