Zodwa Madonsela

Zodwa Madonsela is 18 years old. She’s in Grade 12, Mbambiso Secondary School, living in Malelane, Mpumalanga.

Zodwa was born in the Boschfontein village where she’s spent all her life. She started writing at 15, and she sees her poetry as her inner voice on paper. She loves Lynne Ewing’s fiction, and also likes to sing.

Her poem ‘The Black Nation’ is featured in the Paperight Young Writers’ Anthology 2013, a new multilingual literary anthology of original short stories, essays, poetry and illustrations by South African high school students.

Buy a copy at any Paperight-registered copy shop to read more, and to find out how to submit work for next year’s edition. Visit Paperight to find your nearest outlet.

The Black Nation is reproduced on FunDza with permission.

The Black Nation

7 Responses

keep up the good work zodwa wish u all de bst!

nontando · 10 years ago

keep up the gud work zodwa, i am the 1 of those u inspire. lve u zodwa

MR+Perfect+timing · 11 years ago

she is the most talented , gorgeous lady i have ever seen here on my community.

Xolani Nobela · 11 years ago

Hy zodwa

(H)TOYA+(H)DELAZY(H) · 11 years ago

I WAS WITH ZODWA IN THAT KOH SCHOLAR PROGRAM SHE IS CONFIDENT,PATIENT AND ALWAYS WANT TO PROSPER

BONGANE NTIMBA · 11 years ago

She was my president at a prestigious institution called Imagine Scholar. She is driven by excellency. Art lives in her veins.

Jabulane · 11 years ago

I'm in grade 12 at Mbambiso high school, i knw Zodwa since from grade 9 indeed she's a polite person like drawing cartoons also designing dresses and she is a very great speaker with full of confident and i think she knws what she want in her future..it is written in her face

Nkosingiphile · 11 years ago

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