REGARDED as one of South Afria’s greatest literary figures, S. E. K. Mqhayi remains under-appreciated because he wrote only in Xhosa. Considered the greatest of all Xhosa praise poets, Mqhayi’s ...
On February 11 1908, the poet SEK Mqhayi wrote u-Mbambushe – Induna Enkulu ka Lagwanda (Mbambushe – Chief Ngqika’s chief headman). The poem was about Chief Ngqika’s spoilt dog, Mbambushe, which the ...
The poem Ukutshona Kukamendi (The Sinking of the Mendi) by SEK Mqhayi sums the 1917 tragedy of the sinking of SS Mendi just off the Isle of Wight in the English Channel quite succinctly. A reader may ...
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