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 Zoë Wicomb | 23 November 1948 to 13 October 2025

A tribute from Amazwi South African Museum of Literature

Amazwi is deeply saddened by the passing of Zoë Wicomb earlier this month. In February 2020 Wicomb visited Amazwi for the opening of an exhibition on J.M. Coetzee. Part of the programme was a day of discussions and reading by South African authors. Wicomb read extracts from 'Still Life' which was published later in 2020, and gave the audience a sneak peak of the soon-to-be-published work. Some photos of that event are included below.

Voices from Amazwi

Quite a few of Amazwi’s staff signed up to explore their own creative voices in 2024. Nozipho Madinda (Education Officer), Patricia Peterson (Visitor Officer), Ayanda

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Amazwi is Hiring

  Amazwi has advertised for two (2) positions, that of a Librarian and an Exhibition Officer. For full details about the posts, including the closing

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