Thando Mgqolozana alongside John Trengrove and Malusi Bengu have won at the South African Film and Television Awards 2017 for Best Scriptwriting for controversial film Inxeba. The South African Film and Television Awards or the SAFTAs are the annual South African awards ceremony hosted by the National Film and Video Foundation. The awards which honour […]
South African movie Inxeba known internationally as The Wound, which makes its African debut today was written by amongst others… Thando Mgqolozana. Thando Mgqolozana is many things to many people. To the lovers of good writing, he is the guy that gave us three very good books; A Man Who is Not A Man (2009), […]
Professionals in the literary industry are up in arms against the City of Durban for lack of payment for the ARTiculate Africa festival 2017. The group of mainly aggrieved writers come from all off the continent. In November 2016, the ARTiculate Africa literary festival was hosted in Durban, South Africa as part of the Essence […]
The Abantu Festival 2016 set for 06 – 10 December in Soweto, South Africa have announced some of their guests and the lineup is epic. The Abantu Book Festival with Thando Mgqolozana as director and Panashe Chigumadzi as curator is organised under the theme, Our Stories. The new festival celebrates African stories through written and […]
Check out all the videos of the Long Story Short from 2015 project below. Last year was the one where we were all introduced to a concept called “Long Story Short.” The concept which was a brainchild of South African Kgauhelo Dube and curated by Yewande Omotoso. In it there would be public readings of […]
