Mzwakhe Mbuli Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/mzwakhe-mbuli/ Arts and African History Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:49:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Mzwakhe Mbuli https://consciousness.co.za/mzwakhe-mbuli/ https://consciousness.co.za/mzwakhe-mbuli/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:49:46 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13587 Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959.  His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa woman, and Elijah Katali, a Zulu man who was employed as a long-distance driver. In 1966, the town was bulldozed and Mbuli’s family, which included seven brothers and sisters, was forcibly removed to Soweto.  [...]

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