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Article: Sipho (Sydney) Sepamla: 1932-2007.(In memoriam)(Brief article)
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- Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Born in West Rand Consolidated Mines Township near Krugersdorp (Mogale City), Sipho Sepamla--a trained school teacher--contributed to the return of a black protest voice after the suppression of dissent and the banning of black writers in the 'silent decade' of the 1960s.
Together with Matthews, Mtshali, Serote, Gwala, Madingoane and others, he was influenced by the rise of Black Consciousness and was a prominent figure in what was termed the New Black Poetry of the 1970s or Soweto Poetry. Avoiding direct statement as assertion of resistance he combined his commitment to the destruction of apartheid with innovative shifts ...
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