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Born in Manila, Jim Pascual Agustin moved to Cape Town in 1994 to be with the Canadian-born South African woman he met while on holiday in the Mountain Province in the Philippines during the monsoon season of the previous year. Agustin writes and translates poetry and fiction in Filipino and English. His work has appeared in Rhino, World Literature Today and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. Wings of Smoke ( The Onslaught Press , Oxford, 2017) is his eighth book of poetry. [ MORE ]

South Africa�s National Poet Laureate, Keorapetse �Bra Willie� Kgositsile, has died in Johannesburg. Kgositsile passed away at Milpark Hospital in Parktown. He was seventy-nine. Kgositsile was born in 1938 in Johannesburg, and attended Matibane High School. He began his writing career at the New Age, an anti-apartheid newspaper edited by political activist Ruth First, to which he contributed poetry and news reporting. [ MORE ] Keorapetse Kgositsile