2000
First Edition

by Mzi Mahola

Mzi Mahola was a South African writer, author and poet. He was born on 12 February 1949, in Claremont near Durban. He grew up between Lushington near Seymour and Port Elizabeth, living the Eastern Cape as Mzikayise Winston Mahola. He died at home in Zwide on 26 August 2023. Mzi Mahola was his pen name.

…His second anthology 'When Rains Come' was also sponsored by Mr. Stephen Daitsh to be published in 2000 by Carapace. It won the Olive Schreiner Literary Prize in the Category Poetry for the year 2000. The Wits English Academy voted the volume the Best English Poetry Book in South Africa for the period 2000 and 2001.

Inscribed to Alan Grobler
”To a former poet now disillusioned with poetry.” Title page.
”Alan it is nice to see you so well. From another Poet. Mzi” Title page

“The poem my ultimate scene was inspired by the state at which people are dying today either from crimr, disease or naturally. I kept wondering when my time would be die [sic].'“ Back free end paper.

Signed by Alan Grobler on front free end paper 23 May 2001.

140mm x210mm

R1,000