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- Publishing Status:
- Poet, Writer, Published
- About Me:
- Vusi Moloi is a former Television Journalist for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC TV News) and former Correspondent for the South African Press Association (SAPA). He worked with the feminist organization Black Sash in Johannesburg prior to going into exile in 1987 and the organization’s leader Mrs. Sheena Duncan struck a common chord with Vusi who grew up in the traditional African society of women at Matamong as a herdboy. He began writing poetry in 1978 and his poems appeared in a variety of newspapers and literary publications. He delivered his last poetry rendition at the Women’s Liberation Conference organized by the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDRAW) in Johannesburg at the University of Witwatersrand. The event was a big affair as it was attended by liberation stalwarts like Mrs. Winnie Mandela, Mrs. Albertina Sisulu, Mrs. Helen Joseph, Mr. Mzwakhe Mbuli, Mrs. McBride, Mr. Peter Mokaba among others. He credits the intellectual heavyweight Dr. S.D. Ngcongwane of the University of Zululand for inspiring and shaping his writing skills. Moreover Vusi’s philosophical outlook has been moulded by African women who nurtured and provided for him a protective bond during a harsh voyage of his childhood under apartheid. In his book A Goodbye To My Little Troubles Vusi pays deserved tribute to these powerful figures. Exiled to Northern Botswana, Vusi lived in the ANC camp (the African National Congress of Mr. Nelson Mandela) and continued his revolutionary poetry. Vusi immigrated to Canada in 1989 and has yet to relish the South African freedom.
- Favorite Book(s):
- A Goodbye To My Little Troubles; The Heart of Our Community; Physics for Scientists and Engineers; The Invisible Man; Long Walk To Freedom; Multivariable Calculus;
- Favorite Author(s):
- George Elliott Clarke; Nelson Mandela; Sara Degraffe
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the same plants that suffered
some form of destruction by combustion
rose again dressed in green
looking even greener than ever" Fire Resistance, A Goodbye To My Little Troubles, Vusi Moloi (c) 2008
Warm regards
Vusi
Thank you I am very pleased to be your friend.
All best wishes for your continued success.
Barbara