ST Nicholas Diocesan School recently held an Zulu poetry evening. This was an opportunity to celebrate and promote the love of poetry and the Zulu language at school in writing, speaking and ...

Writer, poet and academic Es’kia Mphahlele once wrote about the damage that the television series Shaka Zulu caused, saying it made a mockery of the image and the history of the Zulu monarch by ...

Even while living in exile, thousands of miles from South Africa, Mazisi Kunene wrote poetry from home. Epic poems that explain the cycles of creation and destruction, the wisdom of the ancestors, the ...

Western culture seems to have become like poisonous hemlock. The new watchword is “decolonize”. Multiculturalism, with its hatred for “the white man, male, European, dead, and an Afrocentrism ...

Google Doodle celebrates Mazisi Kunene, an anti-apartheid activist and South African poet laureate, on his 92nd birthday. Mazisi Kunene was born on May 12, 1930, in Durban, a South African province ...

Mazisi Kunene, who has died aged 76, was one of Africa's greatest poets, inspired by the history of the Zulu people, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the oral tradition of African ...

Prof Mazisi Kunene is a Zulu warrior poet who has never been recognised for his magnificent work. However, this is about to change. A newly formed foundation, the Mazisi Kunene Foundation, was created ...

As a writer and political activist, HIE Dhlomo gave the world back to South Africans at a time when they sorely needed to see themselves in print. Mwelela Cele has worked as a curator, education ...

Mazisi Kunene was born on May 12, 1930, in Durban, a South African province now called KwaZulu-Natal. Kunene began writing poetry in the Zulu language as a child, and by 11 years old he had had his ...