Teamhw SbonguJesu

Teamhw SbonguJesu was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. He is a publisher, editor and writer at TNG Publishing Company (‘TNG’ – The New Generation) based in Pietermaritzburg. He has an LLB degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and an MA in Creative Writing with distinction from Rhodes University. His has three poetry collections Bury Me Naked, Slave, and Hunger. Hunger was published this year (November, 2025).

Besides writing and publishing, Teamhw has a strong zeal for politics.

Bury Me Naked, published in 2022, by TNG Publishing Company

Slave, published in 2023, by TNG Publishing Company

Hunger, published in 2025, by TNG Publishing Company

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Host: Stuart Payne

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Sizakele Nkosi

Sizakele Nkosi is a South African poet, educator and cultural activist whose work bridges spirituality, language and township life. Raised in Soweto and based in Kimberley, she writes in isiZulu, English and Isicamtho to explore memory, sound and survival. Her poetry collection U-Grand Malume? was shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize and longlisted for the NIHSS Award. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Sol Plaatje University and the founder of Kabomedi, a cultural platform and living archive of township poetics. Her work, rooted in ritual, music and the body, honours the resilience and everyday beauty of Black South African life. 

Host: Stuart Payne

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Zoë Boshoff

Please join us on Monday 20 Oct for a reading by Zoë Boshoff.

Zoë Boshoff is a poet and lover of poetry. She has had poems published in Stanzas and New Contrast. Zoë will be sharing poems from her draft debut collection Wild Swimming, an exploration of the relationship between her own emerging nature, and her surroundings.

Time: 19.30

Host: Julia Smuts Louw

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