Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… international conflicts, in Vietnam, the Spanish Civil War, and the Middle East – in a word, everything that … Soweto Poets, a branding with which he was always at war. Mafika was first and foremost a South African writer … that fought for the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War – and the writers and poets, Ernest Hemingway and …