Sydney sipho sepamla biography of mahatma gandhi
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He published his first volume of poetry, Hurry Up to It!, in 1975.
Sources
Sowetan, 1 October 1996. He was passionate about literature.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
A member of Medupe Writers Association, a founding member (and for a while director of) the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) (later the Fuba Academy of Arts) and editor of the literary magazine New Classic and the theatre magazine S'ketsh'.
The satirical poem ‘To Whom It May Concern’, which has been called `a form of self-preservation', made quite an impact in its time.
Education
Sipho Sepamla studied teaching at Pretoria Normal College (now the University of Pretoria), prior to attending drama school in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.
SA History Online [2]. During this period he was active in the Black Consciousness Movement and his 1977 book The Soweto I Love, partly a response to the Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976, was banned by the apartheid regime. This collection was banned during apartheid.
He has used the Black girl as a metaphor of Africa and has provided us again and again with surprising imagery that depicts the South African situation.
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Wikipedia [1].
Plays like King Kong, Alan Paton's Sponono and Gibson Kente's How Long helped nurture Sepamla's literary sensibilities.
Medupe Writers Association
1976 - 1977
Arts and Culture Task Group
1994
References
Sydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg.
Tribute written by Tiisetso Makube, published in Sunday Times, 14 January 2007.
Background
Sydney Sipho Sepamla was born on September 22, 1932 in Krugersdorp, Mogale City Local Municipality, South Africa. One of these was “The Blues is you in me”, and the collection ‘The Soweto I Love (1977)’ in which he compares the township with fermenting dough.
He wrote Morning, Noon and After, a play in three acts and the play Cry Yesterday's Fall published in S'ketsh', Summer 1972.
Sipho Sepamla died on January 9, 2007 in Brakpan Gauteng, South Africa.
Achievements
Sipho Sepamla was an outstanding poet and writer. He lived most of his life in Soweto and died on 9 January 2007 at the age of 74 at his home in Atlasville, Benoni, survived by his wife, five children and 11 grandchildren.
and for him, the pen, “like the bomb, could be used in the fight against apartheid and social injustice in general”. For his writing he received the Thomas Pringle Award in 1977 and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Works
Membership
In 1976 and 1977 Sepamla became a member of Medupe Writers Association.
His poetry has been 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).
Training
After completing his Junior Certificate at the Tigerkloof Secondary School in Taung, North West, Sepamla went on to train as a teacher at the Kilnerton Training Institution in Pretoria.
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Sipho Sepamla was a contemporary South African poet, writer, editor and educator.
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).