1. Sheila Cussons (1922)

South African Poet

Sheila Cussons was an Afrikaans poet. She was born on the Moravia missionary station near Piketberg South Africa and studied fine arts at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg. She...

2. Ingrid Jonker (1933)

South African Poet

Ingrid Jonker was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Jonker has reached iconic status in South Africa...

3. Adam Small (writer) (1936)

South African Poet

Adam Small is a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He is noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans...

4. Lina Spies (1939)

South African Poet

Carellina Pieternella Spies is an Afrikaans poet and academic. She received the Eugène Marais prize and Ingrid Jonker Prize both for her first volume of poetry Digby vergenoeg. For most...

5. Angifi Dladla (1950)

South African Poet

Angifi Proctor Dladla is a South African poet playwright writing teacher and coach. While in Geneva as playwright-in-residence he wrote Kgodumodumo a play about traditional knowledge and the protection of...

6. Lesego Rampolokeng (1965)

South African Poet

Lesego Rampolokeng is a South African writer playwright and performance poet.

7. Joan Hambidge (1956)

South African Poet

Joan Helene Hambidge is an Afrikaans poet literary theorist and academic. She is a prolific poet in Afrikaans controversial as a public figure and critic and notorious for her...

8. Makhosazana Xaba (Unknow)

South African Poet

Makhosazana Xaba is a South African poet. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGO's as well as writing on gender and health. She...

9. Robert Homem (1972)

South African Poet

Robert Homem is a South African poet and publisher. Homem was born in Johannesburg. He edited Something Quarterly and Sun Belly Press which since 1994 has published writers such as...

10. Crystal Warren (1969)

South African Poet

Crystal Warren is a South African poet.

11. Karen Press (Unknow)

South African Poet

Karen Press is a South African poet. She was born in Cape Town and currently lives in Sea Point.

12. Phil du Plessis (1944)

South African Poet

Phil du Plessis Afrikaans poet musician and medical doctor was born as Johannes du Plessis at Fouriesburg in the Free State South Africa on 22 March 1944 and died in...

13. Joan Metelerkamp (Unknow)

South African Poet

Joan Metelerkamp is a South African poet. She was born in Pretoria in 1956 and grew up in Kwazulu-Natal. She was the editor of the poetry journal New Coin from...

14. C. Louis Leipoldt (1880)

South African Poet

Dr. Christian Frederik Louis Leipoldt was a South African poet who wrote in the Afrikaans language. Together with Jan F. E. Celliers and J. D. du Toit he was one...

15. Finuala Dowling (1962)

South African Poet

uala Dowling is a South African poet and writer. The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling Finuala Dowling obtained an MA...

16. Mazisi Kunene (1930)

South African Poet

Mazisi Kunene was a South African poet best known for his poem Emperor Shaka the Great. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime Kunene was an active supporter and...

17. Vonani Bila (1972)

South African Poet

Vonani Bila is a South African author and poet. He is the founder and editor of the poetry journal Timbila and directs the Timbila Poetry Project in Limpopo Province. He...

18. N. P. van Wyk Louw (1906)

South African Poet

Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw almost universally known as N. P. van Wyk Louw was an Afrikaans-language poet playwright and scholar. He is the older brother of Afrikaans-language poet W....

19. Mbongeni Khumalo (1976)

South African Poet

Mbongeni Khumalo is a South African performance poet poet and writer. He was born in Soweto. His poems and short stories have appeared in New Coin Global Fire Tribute Timbila...

20. Robert Dederick (1919)

South African Poet

Robert St Clair Dederick was born in Atherton Lancashire England 27 September 1919 and died in Cape Town South Africa 8 December 1983. He won the South African State Poetry...

21. Allan Kolski Horwitz (Unknow)

South African Poet

Allan Kolski Horwitz is a South African poet who was born in Vryburg and grew up in Cape Town. Matriculating from Herzlia he later moved to Johannesburg after studying philosophy...

22. Gert Vlok Nel (1963)

South African Poet

Gert Vlok Nel is a South African poet. He studied English Afrikaans and history at Stellenbosch University and worked as a guide a bartender and a watchman. He has published...

23. D. J. Opperman (1914)

South African Poet

Diederik Johannes Opperman was one of the best-known Afrikaans poets of the twentieth century.

24. Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (1906)

South African Poet

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi was a South African Zulu poet novelist and educator. In 1946 he became the first black South African to receive a Ph. D. Vilakazi Street in Soweto...

25. Keith Gottschalk (Unknow)

South African Poet

Keith Gottschalk is a South African poet known for his anti-apartheid poetry. He was born on the 14 March 1946 in Cape Town where he still lives. He studied at...

26. W. E. G. Louw (1913)

South African Poet

Ewart Gladstone Louw was an Afrikaner poet and is in the main known to the literary world merely as W. E. G. Louw. He was the younger brother of the...

27. Arja Salafranca (1971)

South African Poet

Arja Salafranca is a South African writer and poet. Salafranca was born in Spain to a Spanish father and a South African mother and has lived in South Africa since...

28. Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (1940)

South African Poet

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali is a South African poet. He has written in both Zulu and English. He studied at Columbia University. He now lives in Soweto.

29. Sjaka Septembir (1972)

South African Poet

Sjaka Septembir is a South African poet writer performer and director. He is the married to the vocalist Melanie Basson. His work is influenced by Punk Dada Abject Art and...

30. Isobel Dixon (1969)

South African Poet

Isobel Dixon is a South African poet.

31. Michelle McGrane (1974)

South African Poet

Michelle McGrane is a poet born in Zimbabwe in 1974. Her poetry has been published in local literary journals and internationally in the United Kingdom Canada and the United States....

32. Wopko Jensma (1939)

South African Poet

Jensma is a South African poet and artist. Jensma published three collections of poetry before his disappearance in 1993. Jensma's Art is ethnic based on a theme only he has...

33. Rustum Kozain (1966)

South African Poet

Rustum Kozain is a South African poet and writer.

34. Shabbir Banoobhai (1949)

South African Poet

Shabbir Banoobhai is a South African poet.

35. Sheila Meiring Fugard (Unknow)

South African Poet

Sheila Meiring Fugard was born in England moving to South Africa. She is a writer of short stories and plays and the wife of South African playwright Athol Fugard.

36. Gabeba Baderoon (1969)

South African Poet

Gabeba Baderoon is the 2005 recipient of the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She was born in Port Elizabeth South Africa on 21 February 1969. She currently lives...

37. Gary Cummiskey (1963)

South African Poet

Gary Cummiskey is a South African poet and publisher. He was born in England and moved to South Africa in 1983. He is the editor of Dye Hard Press which...

38. Patrick Cullinan (1933)

South African Poet

Patrick Roland Cullinan was a South African poet and biographer. He was born in Pretoria into a significant diamond-mining family and attended Charterhouse School and Oxford University in England. After...

39. Isabella Motadinyane (1963)

South African Poet

Isabella Motadinyane was a South African poet performance poet and actor. She was born in Soweto and was a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry group and was on the...

40. Arthur Nortje (1942)

South African Poet

Arthur Kenneth Nortje was a South African poet.

41. Sipho Burns-Ncamashe (Unknow)

South African Poet

Sipho Mangindi Burns-Ncamashe Ah! Zilimbola was a South African poet short story writer and Xhosa imbongi. He was also the chief of the AmaGwali Xhosa sub-group in Alice. He was...

42. Ernst van Heerden (1916)

South African Poet

Ernst van Heerden was a leading Afrikaans poet. Born in Pearston Eastern Cape South Africa he was an openly gay academic famous for his poems on sport. He matriculated at...

43. Elisabeth Eybers (1915)

South African Poet

Elisabeth Françoise Eybers was a South African poet. Her poetry was mainly in Afrikaans although she has translated some of her own work into English. Eybers was born in Klerksdorp...

44. Sinclair Beiles (Unknow)

South African Poet

Sinclair Beiles was a South African beat poet and editor for Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press in Paris. He developed along with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin the...

45. Jan F. E. Celliers (1865)

South African Poet

Jan Francois Elias Celliers almost universally known as Jan F. E. Celliers but occasionally as Jan F. E. Cilliers was an Afrikaans-language poet essayist dramatist and reviewer. Celliers was one...

46. Peter Horn (poet) (Unknow)

South African Poet

Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn born 7 December 1934 in Teplice Czechoslovakia. He is a well-known South African poet who made his mark especially with his anti-Apartheid poetry. At the end...

47. Douglas Livingstone (poet) (Unknow)

South African Poet

Douglas Livingstone was a South African poet. He was born in Kuala Lumpur but his family moved to Natal after his father was taken prisoner during the Japanese invasion of...

48. Ruth Miller (poet) (Unknow)

South African Poet

Ruth Miller was a South African poet. Born in 1919 in Uitenhage she grew up in the northern Transvaal and spent her adult life in Johannesburg. She worked as a...

49. Mikro (author) (Unknow)

South African Poet

Christoffel Hermanus Kühn was an Afrikaans author and poet that published under the pseudonym Mikro from South African. Kühn was born at “Van Reenensplaas” in Williston district of the former...

50. Stephen Watson (poet) (1954)

South African Poet

Stephen Watson was a South African poet. Most of his poetry is about the city of Cape Town where he lived most of his life. He was a professor in...