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Sindiwe Magona

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South African writer

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Works
29

Top works

  • Wuuf-wuuf!
  • Hhu-Hhu!
  • Hawu-Hawu!
  • Huhuu!
  • Hhawu-Hhawu!

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Quotes

  • She would fulfil her obligations as she understood them and provide for them. The only way she could be a mother to her children, she saw, would be to leave them
  • Instead of being kind and buying this and that for the maid, just translate the kindness to this woman’s wages […]
  • once the white child reaches the age of five and has to start school, the black child becomes an embarrassment, a visible reminder of the inequalities endemic in the society
  • the morning paper, the Cape Times, carried the story of the child murdered on the beach. Front page, the story made
  • Today, no one knows the name of the little girl found in a rubbish drum at the back of the butcher’s shop. They don’t know it today, for they never knew it then
  • Now that the pass has gone

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
South Africa
Place of birth
Transkei
Languages spoken
English language
Image
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date of birth
1943-08-27
Commons category
Sindiwe Magona
writing language
Xhosa
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