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.
Amazwi is working on an exhibition on the life and work of Dr Sindiwe Magona, in celebration of her 80th birthday in August 2023. This poem is titled ‘Writing’ and was published in 2009 in her collection, ‘Please Take Photographs’.
Makhandans rub shoulders with international team of experts: Scholars shared insight into a thinker who was a century ahead of her time
By Izak de Vries
On the 25th of July 2023, the Post Graduate Diploma in Heritage Management (PGDHM) candidates, Vatiswa Nhanha and Nompumeza Makinana, were taken on a tour of the Eastern Star Satellite Museum of Amazwi South African Museum of Literature by Exhibitions Officer – Lwazi Bhengu.
The audience was very excited at the launch of the, ‘A Conscience for the Nation’
Sol Plaatjie University International Language Conference
Servants of Africa: African Languages in the 21st Century
