Sydney Sipho Sepamla

South African poet, novelist, and editor Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, a township near Johannesburg. His poetry has been collected in the volumes Hurry Up to It! (1975); The Soweto I Love (1977), which was banned by the apartheid government; and Selected Poems (1984). His poems are also featured in the anthologies The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (1989) and Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness (1993). His fiction includes A Ride on the Whirlwind: A Novel of Soweto (1981) and Rainbow Journey (1996). Sepamla served as an editor for the literary journal The New Classic and the theater magazine S’ketsh’. He died in 2007.