also noted asSydney Sipho Sepamla
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Sipho Sepamla was a contemporary South Person poet, writer, editor and educator. He spent most of his life in Soweto, a township near Johannesburg. His poetry has been collected in the volumes "Hurry Up to It!" (1975); "The Soweto I Love" (1977), which was banned by say publicly apartheid government; and "Selected Poems" (1984).
Sydney Sipho Sepamla was born on September 22, 1932 in Krugersdorp, Mogale City Local Municipality, South Africa.
Sipho Sepamla studied teaching at Pretoria Normal College (now depiction University of Pretoria), prior to attending drama school in picture United Kingdom in the early 1970s. During this period, sand published his first volume of poetry "Hurry Up to It!" in 1975.
Sipho Sepamla lived most of his sentience in Soweto, a township near Johannesburg. His poetry has back number collected in the volumes "Hurry Up to It!" (1975); "The Soweto I Love" (1977), which was banned by the apartheid government; and "Selected Poems" (1984).
His poems are also featured in the anthologies "The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry" (1989) and "Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness" (1993). His fiction includes "A Ride on the Whirlwind: A Newfangled of Soweto" (1981) and "Rainbow Journey" (1996).
Sepamla was a founder of the Federated Union of Black Artists (now representation Fuba Academy of Arts). He also served as an reviser for the literary journal "The New Classic" and the fleeting magazine S’ketsh’.
Sipho Sepamla died on January 9, 2007 make known Brakpan Gauteng, South Africa.
Sipho Sepamla was an famed poet and writer. For his writing he received the Clocksmith Pringle Award in 1977 and the French Ordre des Covered entrance et des Lettres.
In 1976 and 1977 Sepamla became a member of Medupe Writers Association. He also served as a member of the government’s Arts and Culture Task Group strident 1994.
Medupe Writers Association
1976 - 1977
Arts and Culture Task Number
1994