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Makhosazana Xaba

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Makhosazana Xaba (born 1957) is a South African poet. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGO's, as well as writing on gender and health.

She has an MA in creative writing from Wits University and is working on a biography of Noni Jabavu. Xaba's poems have been published in These Hands (2005) and Tongues of Their Mothers (2008). A book of her short stories, Running and other stories, was published in 2013.[1]

Works

  • These hands: poems. Timbila Poetry Project, Elim Hospital, Limpopo Province, 2005. Poetry.
  • Tongues of their mothers. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. Poetry.
  • Running and other stories. Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2013. Fiction.

References

  1. ^ "L'AFRIQUE ECRITE AU FEMININ". Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • Mzamisa, Palesa (2008). "New voices", Wordsetc, Third Quarter, pp31–36.