Amal'eZulu

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[Source - Benathi Marufu for FHYA, 2022: A copy of the the second volume of poetry produced by the renowned Zulu author B.W. Vilakazi. It was written during the ten years he spent living in Johannesburg, in ‘exile’ from his birthplace, KwaZulu-Natal. The poems in this collection represent a turning point in Vilakazi’s life; they express yearnings for the beloved land, animals and ancestral spirits of his rural home, as well as expressions of deep disillusionment with the urban life he encountered in the ‘City of Gold’, and in particular the suffering of the black miners who brought this gold to the surface but never experienced the benefits of the wealth it produced for the mine owners. Vilakazi was deeply conscious of the subhuman system that held these miners in its grip, and gave voice to their suffering in many of the poems in the collection, in particular the now famous poem ‘On the mine compounds'.]

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Amal'eZulu

[ Source of title : FHYA using Benedict Wallet Vilakazi's material ]

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Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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[Source - Benathi Marufu for FHYA, 2022: Written by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi before 1945. Published in 1945 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series by the University of the Witwatersrand Press. A copy was acquired by UCT Libraries at an unknown date. It was digitised by FHYA in October 2022 and uploaded by Benathi Marufu for FHYA.]

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Event Actor Event Type Event Date Event Description
Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) Online curation 2022- Digitised by FHYA in October 2022
University of Cape Town Libraries Custody 19-?
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi Writing before 1935
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