Imbongikazi ya kwa Chizama Nontsizi Mqwetho, imbongikazi ya kwa Chizama, exploded onto the scene in 1920 when her poems were published in the Xhosa-language newspaper Umteteli wa Bantu. The poems, written in isiXhosa, were “swaggering, urgent, confrontational woman’s poetry”. Her...

and our ideals desert as dried bones in a desert the sacrifice made the price paid into earth their blood seeped up to the sky bodies heaped the youth of seventy six who laid freedom's bricks Biko, Hani, Tambo Nalucanda...