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Umlando Ngombhali: USolwazi uMazisi kunene wazalelwa<br />
eThekwini, mhla ziyi-12 kuNhlaba (Meyi) 1930 wakhulela eMahlongwa<br />
ngasogwini oluseNingizimu neKwaZulu-Natal, nokuyilapho<br />
inkaba yakhe ikhona. Lena yindawo ebheke ulwandle lwaseNdiya.<br />
Wafunda amabanga aphansi eMahlongwa kanye naseHluzingqondo<br />
High nokuyilapho abuyele khona futhi wahlonishwa kakhulu kwaze<br />
izinsuku zakhe zokudlula emhlabeni.<br />
Wafunda eMarianhill nokuyilapho athola khona umatikuletsheni, wathola isitifi keti<br />
sokufndisa eKolishi Lokuthwasisa othisha eMaphumulo, wathola iziqu zeMA kwezo-<br />
Buciko eNyuvesi yaseNatali kanye neZobudokotela eNyuvesi yaseNatali ngonyaka we-<br />
2000 ngenkathi ebuya ekudingisweni.<br />
Ngonyaka we-1959, waya ekudingisweni kanye nabanye ababhali ayedingiswe nabo,<br />
o-Es’kia Mphahlele, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Cosmo Pieterse kanye no-Dennis Brutus,<br />
nokuyibona ababamba iqhaza elikhulu ekuvezeni ububi bobandlululo. Ngowe-1962,<br />
waba yinxusa eliphezulu lenhlangano ye-ANC eYurophu kanye nase-USA, futhi waphinde<br />
waba wumqondisi wezezimali ngowe-1972.<br />
Njengomsunguli weNhlangano Ephikisana Nobandlululo (Anti-Apartheid Movement)<br />
eNgilandi, umfo kaMtimande wasebenzisana kakhulu namalunga e-ANC afana noMoses<br />
Mabhida, Oliver Tambo kanye noRobert Resha. Kwakungesikhathi esekudingisweni<br />
ngenkathi eshicilelea izincwadi eziningi ezahlukene okubandakanya kuzo izinkondlo<br />
ezingama-ephikhi ezincwadini Anthem of the Decade (Ihubo leShuminyaka), Emperor<br />
Shaka the Great (Iqhawe inkosi uShaka), kanye namaqoqo amabili ezinkondlo, elithi The<br />
Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain (Amadlozi kanye Nentaba Engcwele) kanye nelithi<br />
Zulu Poems (Izinkondlo zesiZulu).<br />
Ngonyaka we-1969, wabhala i-eseyi eyisandulelo encwadini kaJohn Berger no-Anna<br />
eyisihumusho sencwadi ka-Aime Cesaire ethi Return to My Native Land (Ukubuyela<br />
Ezweni Engidabuka Kulo). UKunene wafundisa kumakolishi namanyuvesi amaningi<br />
empilweni yakhe, esingabala kuwo, i-Adams College eThekwini, eNingizimu Afrika;<br />
iNyuvesi yaseRoma, eLesotho; iNyuvesi yase-California, eLos Angeles (UCLA) iminyaka<br />
eyi-19 ngenkathi esesekudingisweni; kanye naseNyuvesi yaseNatali eThekwini, khona<br />
lapha kwelengabadi.<br />
Preserving and Celebrating our literary heritage
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