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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 ...
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
"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.
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
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.
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".
Born in Natal Colony, Dhlomo was educated in local schools, before training as a teacher at Adams College. [1] He subsequently taught for some years in Johannesburg.He was very active in social affairs during the 1920s, which resulted in several articles published by him in newspapers such as Ilanga Lase Natal in Durban and Bantu World.
Zoo City is riotous, chaotic and completely crazy and I loved the way it brought to life the animal energy that lurks just beneath the surface of the city. After reading the book, I started experimenting with placing animals in cityscapes, both the kind that are found in cities (dogs and cats) and those that exist in Johannesburg only as ...