Nontsizi Mgqwetho

Nontsizi Mgqwetho (fl. 1920s) was a South African poet, "the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa".^[1] Her poems were published in Umteteli wa Bantu, a multilingual weekly Johannesburg newspaper established in 1920.^[2]

Works

• (ed. and transl. Jeff Opland) The Nation’s Bounty - The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Wits University Press, 2007