Khaba Mkhize
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Khaba Mkhize (19**-2016). Poet, playwright, journalist.
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Biography
Former editor of 'Echo' newspaper and ex-assistant editor of the Natal Witness. He also worked for the SABC.
He passed away in Pietermaritzburg in July 2016.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Among the plays that he wrote are Pity! Maritzburg, Hobo the Man and the controversial Bone 4 Mandela (2001).
Awards, etc
His play Pity! Maritzburg was nominated for a Vita Award (National) in 1991.
He won a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as a journalist in 2009.
Sources
The Natal Witness, 9 September 1991.
City Press, 2 September 2001 (re: Bone 4 Mandela).
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