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Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, 1944, just four years before the National Party (South Africa) came to power in South Africa. His early education took place in the poverty-stricken township of Alexandra and later at Morris Isaacson High School – the school in Jabavu , Soweto , and Sacred Heart Commercial High School ...
"Don Mattera: poet of compassion" Archived 29 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine, official Johannesburg website, 15 October 2002. Fred Khumalo, "Tribute | Don Mattera, poet extraordinaire, we salute you!", City Press, 18 July 2022. Bongisipho Magcaba, "Remembering Don Mattera through his books, awards and accolades", SABC News, 18 July 2022.
The Johannesburg Review of Books (or JRB) is a South African online magazine based on other literary magazines such as The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. Its bi-monthly issues include reviews, essays, poetry, photographs, and short fiction focused predominantly but not exclusively on South Africa and other African ...
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 17 February 1966) [1] is a South African writer and performance artist who performs her work nationally and internationally. She is noted for her poetry, which has been published in collections and in many magazines and anthologies, as well as for her autobiographical one-woman show, Original Skin, which centres on her confusion about her identity at a young age ...
In one of his poems, he claimed to "shoot the English with bullets that are British". In another piece of work, "Riding the Victim's Train" (on the CD/album The H.a.l.f Ranthology ), Rampolokeng calls himself "a leper cast out in the desert, and cold, without a snout or paw in the pot of gold".
Mike Alfred is a South African poet, journalist, and historian who lives in Muizenberg Cape Town. His poems have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals. . He has produced six collections of poetry and three books and many articles and papers about the city and people of Johannesbu
A collection of short stories and poems, Brooding Clouds, was published posthumously in 2008. Mpe was born in the northern city of Polokwane in Tiragalong, [2] and moved to Johannesburg at the age of 19 to attend university, [1] and ended up living in the deprived inner city area of Hillbrow, a place where he later set his first novel.
Ruth Miller (1919–1969) was a South African poet.. Born in 1919 in Uitenhage, South Africa, she grew up in the northern Transvaal and spent her adult life in Johannesburg.