Sipho Sepamla

(1932 - 2007) Poet, novelist and cultural leader.

Biography
Born Sipho Sydney James Sepamla in a township near Krugersdorp, he lived most of his life in Soweto. He died in Brakpan, Gauteng.

Training
Trained as a teacher at studied teaching at the Pretoria Normal College.

Career
As an author he published several volumes of poetry and novels.

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'.

Awards, etc
He received the Thomas Pringle Award (1977) and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his writing.

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Born in a township near Krugersdorp, Sipho Sepamla lived most of his life in Soweto.[2] He studied teaching at Pretoria Normal College and published his first volume of poetry, Hurry Up to It!, in 1975. 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.[3] He was a founder of the Federated Union of Black Artists (now the Fuba Academy of Arts) and editor of the literary magazine New Classic and the theatre magazine S'ketsh.