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Mafika Gwala

Died in 2014

Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban. A factory worker, clerk, teacher and social relations officer, he lived mostly in the township of Mpumalanga, west of Durban. A militant of the Black movement of the 1970s, he edited the publication Black Review in 1973 and was detained in 1977. He obtained a master's degree in political science at the University of Natal, pursued his research in Manchester and translated Zulu praise poems with Liz Gunner. He died in September 2014.

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