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 two poetry collections Bury Me Naked and Slave.

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

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

Slave, published in 2023, by TNG Publishing Company

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Painkillers are expensive

I deal with my problems

by ignoring them.

I wait for the next stress

to replace the current stress.

I make diseases sick,

pills take themselves.

A prayer prays,

tears dry themselves.

I make bread eat itself,

starvation starve itself.

I also make old rags

wear themselves out.

Shoes walk barefoot.

I make debts pay themselves,

the interest is always interesting,

no matter how much time has lapsed.

I make silence scream,

and often the scream retaliates.

The result is always dead silence.

For that I make a sentence

write and serve itself.

Though I never judge.

by Teamhw SbonguJesu (page 22 of the collection Slave)