Zukiswa Pakama is a Journalism graduate from Walter Sisulu University and an award-winning author who writes youth and children’s novels, poems, and radio dramas in her mother tongue, isiXhosa, and English. She has published six books in isiXhosa. In 2022 she started a reading and writing project in her community in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, called Isitha Sokhanyo where she assists young learners who are struggling with literacy.