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Sipho Sepamla

Died in 2007

Sipho Sepamla was born on 22 September 1932 and lived most of his life in Soweto. Trained at the teacher training college in Pretoria, he taught in secondary schools. He edited the literary magazine New Classic and the theatre magazine S'ketsh', and co-founded the Federated Union of Black Artists, later the Fuba Academy, in Johannesburg. A poet and novelist, he saw several of his books banned under apartheid. He died on 9 January 2007, aged seventy-four.

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