Mangaliso Buzani grew up in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, and later
trained as a jeweller in Tshwane. His first collection Ndisabhala
Imibongo (Imbizo, 2014) written in isiXhosa, won the 2015 SALA award for
poetry. Buzani teaches poetry in English and isiXhosa in the MA in
Creative Writing programme at Rhodes University.
