A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"Stranger's Voice", The Sunday Times, 06 May 1973, p. 41 The Sunday Times Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/FP1800587512/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=8140b2e4. Accessed 15 Dec 2016

Hugo Young interviews Oswald Mtshali on his poetry collection, "Sounds of a Cowhide Drum," which sold over 16,000 copies. Young writes that Mtshali is "the poet of oppression--humorous, often bitter-sweet, rarely vengeful but still a unique chronicler of apartheid from the black underside of it."