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Vus'umuzi Phakathi
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Contributor, Sowetan
Johannesburg
Beats
Biography
South African poet and entrepreneur, Vus’umuzi Phakathi, is a writer, editor, performer, curator, publicist, and teacher. Phakathi is the recipient of Mail & Guardian Top 200 Youth, Destiny Man Magazine’s Power of 40, and the first Best Poetry Album award at the SABC’s 5th Annual Crown Gospel Music Awards. With a career spanning over 17 years, Phakathi is a freelance writer at Mail & Guardian, Sowetan, and SMag, he’s worked as an editor at Cultrure Review Magazine, and has edited two poetry collections. He was written and performed in four one-man poetry-in-performance production, two of which have tour South Africa and abroad. Phakathi the co-founder and Executive Director of Current State Presentations, the company behind the trailblazing Current State of Poetry, and PR Manager at Voiceboxes Ideas.
feminism cannabis, Travel, Skincare, food makeup, Alcohol, Nightlife, Fashion
Education, business, markets, politics
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Company Info
Sowetan
Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle publication and which serves a proudly South African readership who have earned the right to be in the know and on the move.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
'+27 11 484 3612
Founded: 1981