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Mgqwetho, Nontsizi ( - )

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Short name Mgqwetho, Nontsizi
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First name Nontsizi
Birth name Mgqwetho
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Flourishing 1920 - 1930
Sex Female
Place of birth South Africa
Place of death South Africa
Lived in South Africa
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Professional or ecclesiastical title Poet
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Published in the newspaper Umteteli wa Bantu. She is the first and only major poet to write in Xhosa. She published 103 items, of these six are prose-poems or philosophical accounts and the rest are poems; 35 of them were written in the year of 1924.