Mandla Vanfoll is 18 and in Grade 11 at Masiyile High School in Khayelitsha.

What are you reading at the moment?
A book called Dancing in the Dust. By Kagiso Lesigo Malope

What’s your favourite food?
African salad! (pap and amasi)

What music are you listening to?
Choral music and opera.

Why do you write?
It helps me to express my feelings.

What are your plans for the future?
I want to be a social worker.

Read Mandla’s poem “Ingase Ndithethe”.