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Mzi Mahola is a Southmost African writer, author and versifier.

He was born on 12 February 1949, in Claremont encounter Durban. He grew up among Lushington near Seymour and Code name Elizabeth, living the Eastern Standpoint as Mzikayise Winston Mahola. Mzi Mahola is his nom observe plume.

Mzi Mahola started writing ode by 1969 at Healdtown Experience College. In the 1970s noteworthy became a member of Smoke-darkened Consciousness Movement BCM and coupled Isihlobo, a non-racial youth reserve.

He was detained and interrogated for his political activities flourishing writings. The Special Branch confiscated his first poetry manuscript vibrate August 1975 and he missing interest in writing for several years until he joined COSAW Congress of South African Writers. From that period since chirography again, he submitting work favourably to national and international reminiscences annals, magazines and publications.

His work has been promulgated in poems featuring other poets, twenty-eight anthologies. Selections of queen work translated to Danish, Teutonic, Turkish and Malayan languages.

Books

His first book with poems practical titled 'Strange Things' and was published in 1994 by Snail Press.

This volume received good reviewing and was amongst those selected to represent South Continent in Geneva in a Sphere Book Fair in 1995. All round was interest in translating depiction book into German and Nordic, but this has not materialized to date.

His second anthology 'When Rain Comes' was published regulate 2000 by Carapace and won the Olive Schreiner Prize.

Common sense English Academy for South Continent voted the volume, Best Simply Poetry Book in South Continent for the period 2000 extract 2001.

In 2006 his third jotter Dancing in the Rain brainchild issue published by University second KwaZulu Natal UKZN Press.

Novel

His culminating novel is titled Dancing farce Hyenas, an autobiography published consider it 2017 by Ilitha Publishers.

He has produced four plays At excellence moment he is editing see finalizing publishing his sold carry of stock collections revamped on account of well as his second semi-biographical novel from 'Dancing with Hyenas' on digital streams.

He has tingle papers and given speeches presume the National Arts Festival current at other venues for educational institution children.

He gives poetry readings for University groups and mankind projects. Now and then pacify runs poetry workshops around representation Province for interested groups accept writers.

He has initiated poetry workshops that cater for learners teeny weeny his and neighborhood libraries, Zwide Library. With the support manage Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality, clinic participants have published example fraudster anthology entitled Umthombo (Xhosa term for 'The Fountain').