Mega Artists Magazine #3

MEGA BOOK REVIEW
Issue no: 01
Reneilwe
Malatji
“
The fact that I write in English and I am a second language
speaker of the language is a challenge to a certain extent. I
indulgently insist on writing this foreign language the way I
speak it and at times that does not resonate with the editors.
That creates a struggle on how much of my African English
should go in and how much of it should be panel beaten.
”
Reneilwe Malatji was born in Modjadji Village on the 14th of
November 1968. She grew up at Turfloop township where the
University of Limpopo is situated; in the Northern part of
South Africa. While she was growing up, her father was a
lecturer of Education at the university and her mother a
school teacher locally.
She completed her BA degree, post graduate teaching
diploma and a senior degree in Education at the same
university. She then served for 18 years in the department of
education as a teacher, subject advisor and subject specialist
in Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces. The quest to
become a writer impelled her to go back to school at the
mature age of 40 to study the craft of writing at Rhodes
University 2010 and 2011 respectively.
She worked as a citizen journalist for Grocott’s Mail
newspaper in 2010. She co-authored Tyhini, a literary
magazine published by the Institute of English Studies in
Africa. Love Interrupted, her collection of short stories is been
published by Modjadji books as we speak and it is due to
come out September. Malatji taught ELT part-time students
at Rhode University from 2012-2013. She worked as a
Manuscript Reviewer for UNISA press. She is currently
lecturing Contemporary English Language Studies at the
University of Limpopo. Reneilwe took from her busy
schedule to share with us the experiences she endured while
writing her book “Love Interrupted”.
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