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Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu
Author of anthologies, fiction and poetry in Sesotho
A former Professor of African Languages and Literature, Stellenbosch University
Pofessor at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, School of Arts
[BA (Unin); HonsBA (Unisa); MA (Durham); MA, DLitt (Stell); SSTC; FDE]
Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu was born on 4 September 1959. He matriculated in 1980.
From 1996 to 1998 he was a District Coordinator: Subject Development,
Phuthaditjhaba Education District, Free State Department of Education and
Culture. During 1996 he was an acting District Coordinator: Subject Development,
Harrismith District of the Free State Department of Education and Culture.
He received his DLitt degree, specialising in Literature, during 1998 at the
University of Stellenbosch.
1983 - SSTC - Tshiya College of Education.
1986 - BA Degree - University of the North, Qwaqwa Campus.
1989 - Short Course in English Language Teacher Education - University of
Leeds, England.
1990 - BA Honours - University of South Africa
1993 - MA (Applied Linguistics) - University of Durham, England
1994 - MA (African Languages) - University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch.
1995 - FDE in English Teaching - College of Education of South Africa.
1998 - DLitt (African Languages) - University of Stellenbosch.
1984 - 86 - Teacher at Tseki Senior Secondary School
1987 - 88 - College Lecturer at Tshiya College of Education
1988 - 96 - Senior Education Advisor for English at the former Qwaqwa and Free
State Departments of Education and Culture
1996 - Acting District Coordinator: Subject Development, Harrismith District of
the Free State Department of Education and Culture.
1996 - 98 - District Coordinator: Subject Development, Phuthaditjhaba Education
District, Free State Department of Education and Culture
1999 - Professor of African Languages Literature at the Stellenbosch
University
2006 Chair of the department of African Languages, US
Awards:
1996: FNB - Kagiso - Literary Prize for the novel, Nonyana ya tshepo
1999: African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA) literature prize
2004: NRF research grant (for 2004 and 2005) Topic: Socio-cultural issues in the literature of selected indigenous languages of South Africa
2007: NRF Institutional research (for 2007-2008) Topic: Cultural translations
2008-2009: ANFASA Grant Scheme for Authors. The grant was for the writing of the Monolingual Sesotho Dictionary
Moduwane (poetry anthology), Van Schaik, 1987
Majwe (poetry anthology), Educum, 1988
Fiswana La Morena: Southern Sotho short stories (Co-author: Litabe, NS), Maskew Miller Longman, 1992
Nonyana ya tshepo (novel), Kagiso Publishers, 1997
O Titimetse(novel), Via Afrika, 2002
Foundation Phase Bilingual Dictionary IsiZulu/English
Isichazamazwi Sezinga Eliyisisekelo: isiZulu/ English. Maskew Miller-Longman, 2010
Izibi zaseThekwini. Johannesburg: Bhiyoza Publishers, 2018
2009. Ha ba arabe. Chapter in the short story collection: Ha ba arabe. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman
Text by Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu
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