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Brilliant writer and political activist
THE author of Africa my Beginning, Africa my Ending, Ingoapele Madingoane, was described by the South African Literary Awards as a poet and social activist, the doyen of modern, politically conscious oral poetry and a formidable member of the 1976 Black Consciousness Sowetan poets.
He is best known for his evocative poem, Africa my Beginning.
The poem was published by Ravan Press in 1979 and banned by the apartheid authorities two months later.
Madingoane performed the poem widely in Soweto, accompanied by Mihloti Black Theatre's flutes and drums, mainly at protest rallies and funerals of anti-apartheid activists.
He was honoured with a Sala Literary Posthumous Award in 2007, nine years after his death due to a long illness.
Sala honoured him again in Johannesburg recently through its legacy project, the Miriam Tlali Reading and Book Club.
The club, which is named after and honours iconic veteran author Miriam Tlali, also featured the