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Welcome to Our Hillbrow, is a novel by South African novelist Phaswane Mpe which deals with issues of xenophobia, AIDS, tradition, and inner city status in the Hillbrow neighborhood of post-apartheid Johannesburg. It was first published in 2001.
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 ...
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.
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
I Write What I Like (full name I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko) is a compilation of writings from anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. [1]I Write What I Like contains a selection of Biko's writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Student Organisation, to 1972, when he was prohibited from publishing.
"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.
Keorapetse William Kgositsile OIS (19 September 1938 – 3 January 2018), also known by his pen name Bra Willie, was a South African Tswana poet, journalist and political activist.
In Johannesburg in the 1950s, crime was a day-to-day reality, and Sophiatown was the nucleus of all reef crimes. Gangsters were city-bred and spoke a mixture of Afrikaans and English, known as tsotsitaal. Some of the more well-known gangs in Sophiatown were the Russians, the Americans, the Gestapo, the Berliners and the Vultures.