Sydney Sepamla

Biography

Sydney Sipho Sepamla was born in 1932 in South Africa. He studied teaching at Pretoria Normal College before attending drama school in the UK in the early 1970s. He published his first volume of poetry, Hurry Up to It!, in 1975. He founded the Federated Union of Black Artists (now the Fuba Academy of Arts) and served as the editor of the literary magazine New Classic and the theatre magazine S’ketsh. Sepamla received several awards for his writing, including the Thomas Pringle Award in 1977 and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was a member of the government’s Arts and Culture Task Group. He died in 2007.

Birth Date

1932-09-22

Place of Birth

Death Date

2007-01-09

Country of Nationality

South Africa

Pretoria Normal College

Sources

"Sipho Sepamla." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 4 April 2022. Accessed 8 July 2022. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipho_Sepamla>. "Sydney Sipho Sepamla." South African History Online. Accessed 8 July 2022. <https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/sydney-sipho-sepamla>. "Sydney Sipho Sepamla." The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. Accessed 8 July 2022. <https://www.omt.org.za/history/some-omt-beneficiaries/sydney-sipho-sepamla/>.